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TOP WELTERWEIGHTS: THURMAN-PORTER WINNER TOO CLOSE TO CALL
Keith Thurman vs. Shawn Porter Undercard Complete
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Sugar Ray Leonard & Thomas Hearns, Two Hall of Fame Welterweight Champions, Weigh-In on the Keith Thurman-Shawn Porter 147-Pound Championship Battle at Barclays Center on Saturday, June 25 Live on CBS
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A LEGENDARY MARCH THROUGH THE DECADES – SHOWTIME SPORTS® CONTINUES CELEBRATION OF 30 YEARS OF SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING®
Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, Felix Trinidad, Ricardo Lopez, George foromane & More Showcased In March
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NEW YORK (March 2, 2016) - Showtime Sports rolls out its third installment of a year-long salute commemorating 30 years of Showtime Championship Boxing in March with “Legends’’.
This month will be highlighted by legends Sugar Ray Leonard, Babatsehang Marvin Hagler, Felix Trinidad, Ricardo “Finito” Lopez and George Foreman. Seven of the most unforgettable and important fights from these legends – some of which have seldom been re-aired since their live presentation – are available now on the network’s on demand platforms and will air will air on “Throwback Thursdays”in March at 10 p.m. LE/PT ka Showtime Extreme.
The Labone, March 10 presentation of Marvin Hagler vs. John Mugabi airs exactly 30 years after the final win of Hagler’s Hall of Fame career on March 10, 1986. Hagler vs. Mugabi was the first main event to ever air on SHOWTIME®.
The classic fights, which are also are available on SHOWTIME ON DEMAND®, Showtime neng kapa neng® and via the network’s standalone streaming service, will be wrapped with brief context and commentary from SHOWTIME Sports host Brian Custer.
Below is the schedule of SHO EXTREME premieres for the month of March:
- Hosasane, Labone, March 3: Terry Norris vs. Sugar Ray Leonard
- Labone, March 10: Marvin Hagler vs. John Mugabi
- Labone, March 17: Felix Trinidad vs. David Reid
- Labone, March 24: Ricardo Lopez vs. Rosendo Alvarez II
- Labone, March 31: Iran Barkley vs. Thomas Hearns I, George Foreman vs. Gerry Cooney (10:15 p.m. LE/PT), Gerald McClellan vs. Julian Jackson I (10:30 p.m. Et / PT)
In celebration of the best rivalries on SHOWTIME, see below for a special column from SHOWTIME Sports expert analyst and boxing historian Steve kekana Farhood.
Legends
By Steve Farhood
Boxing without legends would be like religion without saints.
There’s no formula for a fighter to advance from star to superstar to legend. The process depends on timing, circumstance, and sometimes as little as a point or two on the judges’ dikarete tsa.
And oh, ee: It helps if a guy can really fight.
As we celebrate 30 years of boxing on SHOWTIME, we’re focusing on a different theme each month. Throughout March, the theme will be Legends.
Ka 130 years from John L. Sullivan to Floyd Mayweather, boxing has given us what other sports can’t provide. Consider:
- The Associated Press voted Luis Firpo’s knockdown of Jack Dempsey as the greatest sports moment of the first half of the 20th Century.
- The Frazier-Ali “Fight Of The Century” in 1971 was easily the most anticipated sporting event in history.
- Last year’s Mayweather-Pacquiao fight generated more than half-a-billion dollars — in one night!
Legends are made by big moments … and how they respond to those moments.
On SHOWTIME, we’ve featured three decades worth of legends. Here’s a look at those who will share the spotlight in March.
MARVIN HAGLER: Since Vince Lombardi didn’t exactly say, “Timing isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,” Hagler should’ve said it.
Hagler was a great fighter long before he was a superstar, but it wasn’t until he fought Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns, and Sugar Ray Leonard (three of Hagler’s last six bouts) that Marvin became Marvelous.
Hagler’s one appearance on SHOWTIME, which happened to be the first bout televised on the network (March 1986), was the final win of his career. Undefeated over 10 lilemo tse, Hagler had established himself as one of the greatest middleweights in history. And while it could be argued in hindsight that at age 31, the ultimate blue-collar fighter was slightly past his prime, much of what made Hagler special was on display during his savage defense against his unbeaten and ferocious challenger, John Mugabi.
Almost three decades after his retirement, Hagler remains the middleweight today’s 160-pounders are measured against.
Tsoekere Ray Leonard: If Hagler bloomed late, Leonard was a superstar before he threw a single punch as a professional.
Back in the mid-‘70s, that’s what a magnetic smile, an Olympic gold medal, and repeated exposure on prime time television could do for a young fighter.
It’s ironic that Leonard was initially viewed by some as a coddled creation of the media. Haele hantle, he was as tough as any fighter of the star-studded early-‘80s. Better yet, he remains the best fighter I’ve covered in 38 years on the boxing beat.
Leonard’s appearance on SHOWTIME was the penultimate bout of his career. In electing to end yet another lengthy layoff, Tsoekere Ray, 34, chose outstanding 23-year-old super welterweight titlist Terry Norris as his opponent. Leonard dropped from 160 ho 154 pounds and fought at Madison Square Garden for the first time.
The bout served as a reminder that at least in a pre-Bernard Hopkins world, boxing was very much a young man’s game.
FELIX TRINIDAD: There are only three Hispanic fighters who became superstars in the USA without speaking English. The first was Panama’s Roberto Duran. The second was Mexico’s Julio Cesar Chavez.
The third was Puerto Rico’s Trinidad.
Trinidad’s motto might as well have been, “If you can’t be from America, then beat America.”
A classic puncher with a boy scout’s smile and a fan-friendly personality, Trinidad made his name by defeating four U.S. Olympians, Pernell Whitaker, Oscar De La Hoya (albeit by a terrible decision), David Reid, and Fernando Vargas.
Ho feta moo, Whitaker, De La Hoya, and Reid had all been gold medalists.
The fight we’ll feature on March 17 on SHO EXTREME, Trinidad vs. Reid, was Trinidad’s 14th and final appearance on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING and SHOWTIME pay-per-view.
From his welterweight title-winning kayo of Maurice Blocker in 1993 through his defense against Mahenge Zulu in 1998, 13 of Trinidad’s 14 bouts were aired on SHOWTIME. Twelve of those fights were knockout wins.
Where Trinidad ranks with Wilfredo Gomez, Miguel Cotto, Carlos Ortiz, Wilfred Benitez, and the rest of the legends from Puerto Rico is debatable. What is inarguable is that “Tito” generated as much excitement as any fighter of his era.
RICARDO LOPEZ: What’s smaller: the chance that a strawweight (105 lik'hilograma tse) becomes an American television star or the fighter himself?
There’s never been an American world champion at strawweight (or minimumweight). We just don’t grow fighters that size. Haele hantle, until the emergence of Mexico’s Lopez in the early-’90s, most American boxing fans couldn’t have identified a single strawweight if armed with a map of the world and a set of WBC ratings.
Lopez was so complete, so dominant, so technically perfect, that from 1994 to ’99, he was a staple of SHOWTIME’s boxing programming. He fought 13 consecutive bouts on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING or SHOWTIME Pay-Per-View, and the first 11 of those contests were defenses of the strawweight title.
And if you think the little guys can’t punch, hantle, there were some one-punch kayos sprinkled in.
Lopez, who retired with a mark of 51-0-1, is universally acknowledged as an all-time great. Too bad he never fought America’s Michael Carbajal at light flyweight. Had he won that bout, he’d likely be acknowledged as one of the two or three greatest Mexican fighters ever.
Which is saying a lot for a fighter who never faced an opponent recognized by the American viewing public.
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8-NAKO Lefatše le 'mampoli THOMAS”THE Hitman” HEARNS CONFIRMED FOR SECOND ANNUAL BOX FAN EXPO TAKING PLACE SATURDAY IN LAS VEGAS
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Phahameng ka ho fetisisa Fan phihlelo ketsahalo e fanang ka ditebele Fans le monyetla oa ho kopana-and-lumelisa holimo bahlabani, ditebele likhalala, 'me lefapha batho ba
in an up-close, botho boemo
Las Vegas (Supa. 8, 2015) – Tse robeli nako lefatše 'mampoli Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns e tiisitse hore e le hore a o tla hlaha ka le ho ba le lephephe ka Las Vegas Convention Center la bobeli selemo le selemo Lebokose le leqepheng la Fan Expo hore tla etsahala Moqebelo. The Boxing Expo tla tsamaisane le Floyd Mayweather vs. Andre Berto mampoli ntoa, e leng tla etsahala hamorao hore mantsiboea 'me Mexico le bolokolohi mafelo-beke. Tickets ho le Box Fan Expo di a fumaneha Inthaneteng ho:-http://www.boxfanexpo.
Hearns ho feta famously tsejoa e le “The Hitman,” ile ea e-pele Boxer historing ho hlōla lefatše litlotla tse tse 'nè lihlopha. O ne a tla fetoha ea pele oke historing ho hlōla tse hlano lefatše dihlooho tse hlano tse fapaneng lihlopha. Hearns o ile a e mong ea bitsoang Ring Magazine Fighter ya Year a 1980 le 1984 'me o molemo ka ho fetisisa a tsejoa ka ho loana le Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler le Roberto Duran. O ne a inducted ka Boxing Hall of Fame a 2012. Hearns tla le bona ba na le teng, T-shirts, litlelafo ya saenelwa ditshwantsho bakeng sa Fans ho reka le ho thabela.
Hearns oona o kopanela ea hae ea qothisana lehlokoa le eena Duran, Tim Bradley, Zab Juda, James Toney, Sergio Martinez, Shawn Porter, Mia St. John, Terry Norris, Joel Casamayor, Fernando Vargas, Ruslana Provodnikov, Ray Mancini, Jessie Vargas, Mike McCallum, Austin Trout, Kevin Kelley, moletsaphala Richard Steele, le Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, oa Lefatše oa Boxing Lekgotla la (WBC) le World Boxing Association (WBA) har'a ba pele boitlamo ba la selemo sena la Lebokose le leqepheng la Fan Expo.
Ena e ikhethang Fan phihlelo ketsahalo, eo o ile a lumella Fans ho kopana le ho lumelisa ditebele litšōmo, nakong e fetileng le hona joale bahloli le tse ling tummeng ya dipapadi, debuted ho qetela September. Selemong sena, le Expo tla matha ho tloha10 a.m. ho 5 p.m. 'me o boetse, lumella Fans monyetla oa ho bokella autographs, nka foto le ho reka thepa e le Lihopotso.
Batlhagisi tse kang ditebele Gear, seaparo, kgaso mecha ea litaba le tse ling cha lik'hamphani ba lakatsang ho ba le seabo tla ba le monyetla oa ho showcase lihlahisoa tsa tsona ho Fans le eohle ditebele lefapha.
Ea selemong se fetileng kgakolwa Box Fan Expo hlahisa ba bang ba ratoang ka ho fetisisa bahlabani le ditebele tummeng tsa morao tjena histori. Fans ba ne ba tšoaroa ho etela le Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Refresh, Martinez, Amir Khan, Juda, Mikey Garcia,Toney, Riddick Bowe, Leon Spinks Terry Norris, Aamir Khan, Chris Byrd, Jesse James Leija, Lamon Brewster, Ray Mercer, Earnie Shavers, St-John, Erislandy Lara, Petrose Quillin, Jean Pascal le Austin Trout. Hape hlaha ka ba ne ba hona joale WBC Champion Deontay Wilder, le phekolang ka mohlolo Vinny Pazienza, Pauluse Williams, o ile a re Mohlalosi e Al Bernstein le mokoetlisi Roger Mayweather ea Mayweather ho phahamiswa.
The lenane ea ba tlileng kopanong bakeng sa la selemo sena la Lebokose le leqepheng la Fan Expo tla tsoela pele ho ile a phatlalatsa ho pholletsa le seng makae a latelang pele ho ketsahalo eo.
Mang kapa mang ea a le ditebele lefapha kapa cha lik'hamphani ba lakatsang ho ho ameha le beheloa lephephe e le exhibitor kapa lihlapiso menyetla, kotjwa hore o iteanye Box Fan Expo kwa:
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