New Primetime Series to Include First-Ever Use of “Spidercam” for Live Boxing Telecast

Kevin Kugler to Provide Play-by-Play with World Class Welterweight Timothy Bradley & Reporter Crystina Poncher

truTV and Top Rank will partner to exclusively present the MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout on truTV, a live primetime boxing series set to debut Friday, Mai 1, à 10 p.m. ET. La nouvelle série de boxe, in association with Turner Sports and HBO Sports, will launch on the eve of the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao pay-per-view fight with a card featuring two title bouts inside The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

The network’s presentation will feature the first-ever domestic use of “Spidercam” technology for a live boxing telecast, providing dynamic coverage of this new series. "Spidercam" fonctionne sur un système à quatre points des câbles à partir de points désignés au-delà des coins du ring de boxe. La caméra suspendue a la capacité de fournir des angles de 360 ​​degrés impérieuses de l'action, y compris la capacité à se déplacer dans les trois dimensions - gauche / droite, avant / arrière et haut / bas.

“Spidercam” will provide the definitive views of the action throughout the series, including a main event on Friday, Mai 1, showcasing Takahiro Ao (27-3-1, 16 KOs) from Chiba, Japon, vs. Ray Beltran (29-7-1, 17 KOs) from Los Mochis, Mexique, in a 12-round bout for the vacant WBO Lightweight World Championship. The undercard will include two undefeated fighters in action – Mikael Zewski (26-0, 23 KOs) from Quebec, Canada, vs. Konstantin Ponomarev (27-0, 13 KOs) from Miass, Russia – in a 10-round bout for the NABF Welterweight Championship.

Commentators for the event will include Kevin Kugler providing play-by-play with analyst Timothy Bradley and reporter Crystina Poncher. Kugler est un animateur de vétéran qui a appelé basket-ball collégial et la couverture de la NFL pour Westwood One et le football collégial pour la Big Ten Network. Bradley est un ancien champion poids welter WBO et ancien WBO et deux fois champion WBC des poids welter junior, including a win over Pacquiao during his career. Poncher est un commentateur et journaliste pour Top Rank, ainsi que d'un hôte, journaliste et correspondant de NFL Network et NFL.com. En outre, closed captioning in Spanish will be available.

The second week of the MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout on truTV series – live from Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., vendredi, Mai 8, à 10 p.m. – will be headlined by Top-10 contenders Glen “Jersey Boy” Tapia (23-1, 15 KOs) from Passaic, N.J., and “Irish” Seanie Monaghan (23-0, 15 KOs) en action. Tapia will defend his NABO junior middleweight title against Michael Soro (25-1-1, 15 KOs) from France, with Monaghan (defending his WBC Continental Americas light heavyweight title) facing Cleiton Conceicao (20-6-2, 16 KOs) from Brazil.

Dans le cadre de sa commandite de droit de la série de boxe sur truTV, MetroPCS will receive camera-visible center ring and corner pad brand placement for each fight, ainsi que l'inclusion dans tous les messages promotionnels travers truTV et d'autres réseaux Turner Broadcasting. Sony PlayStation also joins as an associate sponsor of the series, with in-ring signage and inclusion in promotional spots.

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