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Erickson Lubin & Jorge Cota Clash in a WBC Super Welterweight Title Eliminator in Primetime Battle on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING on CBS Presented by Premier Boxing Champions
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Unbeaten Brooklyn Fan Favorite Heather Hardy Returns to Take on Former Title Challenger Helen Joseph in Undercard Action Saturday, March 4 Barclays Center Brooklyn batetik
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Keith Thurman vs. Danny Garcia Press Conference Quotes & Argazkiak
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Melson Reflects on Career; Next Fight For a Seat in US Congress
New York, NY (Urtarrilaren 17, 2017) – Boyd “Rainmaker” Melson may be the only fighter in boxing history not in the sport for financial gain and even came out of retirement for one final match to raise funds for others.
A multi-time champion as an amateur that defeated future pro standouts Keith Thurman, Charles Hatley, and Deandre Latimore, Melson had a different vision of what boxing would do. The 2003 West Point graduate and Army Reserve Officer used boxing as a vehicle and a voice for causes close to his heart throughout his 18 borrokatzeko karrera, donating 100% of the money he earned in the ring.
Oro har, Melson helped raise $400,000 between his boxing purses and charity galas. The majority of the funds was for Team Fight to Walk, a 501(C)3 which raises funds and awareness for a clinical trial focused on to curing Chronic Spinal Cord Injuries. He also donated one of his purses to a childhood friend that had a son battling brain cancer and another to Big Vision, which helps people battle drug addictions among young adults.
Fighting for causes was his ultimate passion, but the literal fights were often very difficult. Melson spent the first few years of his professional boxing career traveling from his New York City residence to New Jersey where he worked for Johnson&Johnson as a medical device sales rep. When he was preparing for a fight, he’d run on his lunch break, train in the evening after working a full day and often run again in the middle of the night to help cut weight. Aldi berean, Melson served in the U.S. Army Reserve, having military duties one weekend a month and two weeks a year.
Horrez gain, Melson would teach fitness classes at Equinox Fitness to earn extra money and regularly traveled to public schools providing motivational speeches to students for free. The exhausting schedule was hard for Melson, who suffered multiple injuries including a stretched brachial plexus which temporarily paralyzed his right arm during his fight against Donald Ward, multiple tears in his left rotator cuff, kidney stones due to dehydration and a fracture in his left orbital bone. Still, he made weight for every fight in his career and finished 15-2-1 batera 4 knockout garaipen, winning the WBC USNBC junior middleweight title against Mike Ruiz in May 2015.
Melson believed his championship winning performance would be his last bout as lingering injuries from boxing still bothered him and a laundry list of other commitments occupied much of his time. He came out of his unofficial retirement for one final match last November against Courtney Pennington. Melson’s fight financially assisted the aforementioned Big Vision, an organization which he works very closely with that has a mission of helping young adults battling drug addictions return to sobriety. Zoritxarrez, Melson took extreme measures to cut 30 kilo in 8 weeks and entered the ring devoid of energy, losing via 7garren round stoppage.
Following the fight, Melson officially announced his retirement and plans to run for U.S. Congress in 2018. Promoter Lou DiBella, who promoted most of Melson’s fights including his career finale, said to the crowd at the Foxwoods Casino “I’ve never promoted a better man than Boyd Melson.”
Oro har, Melson is satisfied with his boxing career and is greatly appreciative for the incredible support from the boxing community.
“When I turned pro, I had no idea how far or long professional boxing would take me. This is a brutal sport not just physically but mentally as well. There were many days where I wanted to stop fighting for a number of reasons, but it was on those days that I had to always remind myself that I needed to fight to help others. The causes I fought for and continue to fight for outside of the ring are as important as anything in my life. Through boxing, I made many great friends and am incredibly thankful for that. I also appreciate everybody that donated to Team Fight to Walk or Big Vision as well as all the media that helped raise awareness for these great causes by covering my career.”
With the gloves hung up, Melson’s focused on running for United States Congress, advancing his career in the US Army Reserve, assisting others in need and continuing his growing career as a public and motivational speaker.
“I fell on my sword in order to compete in this last fight. The weight loss took the fight from my body, so I used every bit of strength in my mind to give whatever I had. I had one purpose for this last fight, and that was to raise awareness and money to help combat the heroin epidemic in Staten Island. I took a beating for this mission and I hope my example demonstrated the need to risk everything, even your body, when you believe it will help the lives of others suffering. Boxing has created a future that has continued to allow me to serve mankind now that I have left the ring as a competitor. I am on the board for the charities Boxer Inc., Stop Soldier Suicide, Team Fight To Walk, and hopefully Big Vision sometime soon. I was recently asked to join the 501c3 titled “The In Bed and Chair Recovery Foundation” so that I can serve on their board. They have a patented multi-faceted exercise apparatus which is meant for anyone who is confined to a wheelchair or a bed. They’ve asked me to help raise money through donations so that they can provide their unit, free of charge to groups of people in need such as disabled veterans and children battling cancer. There is a lot of pressure I continue to put on myself through various commitments and organizations I’m involved with, but this is what makes my world go round as I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
“I continue to have more opportunities presented to me so that I can positively reach children through my words. Although I have only fought once in order to help create a larger awareness regarding the heroin epidemic in Staten Island, my mission for this cause has only begun. My goal is to begin offering my time to host free boxing clinics on the Island at Rustam’s Boxing Gym as well as one of Teddy Atlas’s boxing gyms. These clinics will be meant for heroin addicts, and the aim is to knockout heroin on Staten Island. My hope is to help Staten Island’s heroin addicts fall in love with boxing and have that as a vehicle to help overcome the addiction. These human beings are sick but they’re are not criminals. Sometimes people who are sick are not able to be healed on their own and when that happens it is upon us as human beings to come together to help heal them.”
Melson is currently on military orders at Fort Meade, Maryland for 9 weeks in total. He is in school there being trained for his new duty as a Public Affairs Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. Upon completing training in March, Melson will be looked at in April for a much welcomed promotion to the rank of Major. When he is finished, Melson looks to take his political aspirations to the next level.
If elected, Melson’s mission will involve helping many aspects of human beings’ daily lives with a focus on battling bullying, sickness and disease, poor health care for veterans, veteran suicide, heroin addiction, racism, hunger and unemployment.
“Every part of my journey these past 6 years as a professional boxer has led me to my decision to run for U.S. Congress in 2018. I hope to make my official announcement some time in 2017. Various celebrities and generals have given me their words that they will stand by my side in the public during this run. I am tired of being the human being always asking for help and never being the one asked for help. My mission is to bring the type of fight I brought every fight into the ring and implement it while serving the people as an elected official. I’m confident I can be very effective in using my abilities to help improve the lives of human beings that I am responsible to and for. garrantzitsuena, I need to inspire the hearts and minds of those necessary to help get me elected.”
Melson is also proud to announce that the cause that brought him to boxing, Team Fight To Walk, should have FDA Approval to conduct the clinical trial here in the United States by this Fall. Melson, along with Christan Zaccagnino and publicist Matt Yanofsky have raised $400,000 to help conduct this clinical trial. The trial will consist of 27 Spinal Cord Injured human beings in total. It will divide the 27 into three groups of nine treated between the University of Newark Hospital in New Jersey along with Mount Sinai and Long Island Jewish Hospitals in New York.
The study presented to the FDA was published in May of 2016 in the Medical Journal “Cell Transplantation,” with its results being heavily investigated by American physicians. All reviewing physicians agreed with the results, a requirement in order to be published. This exact study conducted in China resulted in 15 kanpo 20 Spinal Cord Injured patients, as a group paralyzed an average of 7 urte, now able to walk at least 10 meters with the help of a walker. The results also showed that 12 out of these same 20 had their bladder and bowel functions restored. Melson, Zaccagnino and the rest of Team Fight to Walk believe this is the beginning of our long awaited cure for Spinal Cord Injuries in the United States.
Fans can keep up with the latest on Boyd and contact him via Twitter @Boydmelson, Facebook at Boyd Melson, and Instagram @BoydMelson
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LOS ANGELES (Abendu. 10, 2016) - Abner Mares (30-2-1, 15 Kos) ikaragarria egin du, 12 txandako erabakia hondatu zuen txapeldunaren aurka Jesus Cuellar (28-2, 21 Kos) WBA Featherweight Munduko Txapelketa harrapatzeko eta lau aldiz boxeoko txapeldun izateko Larunbata SHOWTIME TXAPELKETA BOXEO partida bikoitzeko ekitaldi nagusian.
Los Angeleseko USC campuseko Galen Center-en ko-emanaldian, Jermall Charlo (25-0, 19 Kos) IBF Junior pisu ertaineko Munduko titulua mantendu zuen bosgarren itzuliko kanporaketa nabarmen batekin, aurretik irabazi gabekoagatik, goian sailkatua Julian "J-Rock" Williams (22-1-1, 14 Kos). (Video nabarmentzen: http://s.sho.com/2hqXDr8)
Goizaldean SHOWTIME-n, irabazi gabeko IBF pisu astuneko munduko txapelduna Anthony Joshua (18-0, 18 Kos) errondan Eric Molina (25-4, 19 Kos), Weslaco of, Texas, Manchesterren hirugarren itzulian, Ingalaterra. (Video nabarmentzen: http://s.sho.com/2hqHTo8)
Madres, Huntington Beach, Kalifornia., Guadalajaratik, Mexikon, izan zen garaile gola lortuz 117-110, 116-111 eta 112-115. Kermit Bayless epailea izan zen argentinarrentzat partida gogorra lortu zuen jaitsiera bakarra. Maresek 11. txandan lortu zuen borrokaren kolpe bakartia. Cuellar, Buenos Aires, 11 borrokaldiko garaipen segida amaitu zuen. (Video nabarmentzen: http://s.sho.com/2hbJayp)
Madres, bere lehen irteera eginez in 16 hilabete eta lehenengo traineru ospetsuarekin Robert Garcia, Teknikoki ona den joko-plana egin zuen eta Cuellar baino zulatzaile zehatzagoa izan zen, Hall of Famer-en tutoretzapean zegoena Freddie Roach bere ibilbidean lehen aldiz.
«Oso ondo sentitzen naiz, denbora luzea da. Txapelduna naiz, haurra,'', esan zuen Maresek, 31, WBC luma eta super galloko munduko txapeldun ohia eta IBFko pisu galloko munduko txapelduna, Garciarena bihurtu zena 10garren munduko txapeldun. «Joko plan ezin hobea genuen.
«Inoiz ez nuen nire buruaz zalantzan jarri. Nire bihotzean sentitu nuen. Borrokatu nuenean Lion (Santa Cruz) Borroka okerrean egin nuelako jipoitu dut neure burua. Buruz borrokatu nintzen Gaur gauean. Uste nuen aho batez erabakia izango zela, baina azkenean txapelduna naiz».
Cuellar zulatzaile suntsitzaile gisa ezagutzen da, baina ezin izan zituen bere botere jaurtiketak egin edo eraztuna moztu Maresen aurka, zehaztasunarekin eta ezker gantxo sendoarekin txandak poltsikoratu zituen itxuraz. Maresek eskuin zuzen batekin lurrera bota zuen Cuellari 11.eko hasierako minutuan, Cuellar oihalera bidaliz bere ibilbideko hirugarren aldiz. Erasoa jarraitu zuen, Mares berpiztu batekin Cuellar-en tee-a eginez, eskuak altxatu zituen arte azken txanpa jarraituz.
«Botere-zulatzaile bat zela esan zuten, botako ninduela esan zuten, baina botere pixka bat dudala frogatu nuen, gehiegi,'', esan zuen Maresek, nork 12 itzuliko gehiengoaren erabakia utzi zion Santa Cruzi abuztuan azken borrokan. 29, 2015. «Leo nahi dut, Nahi dut (Carl) Frampton, Edonor nahi dut. Txapelduna naiz. Ez diot inoren beldur».
Cuellarrek errebantxarako bere kasua adierazi zuen ondoren.
«Borroka nahiko parekatua iruditu zitzaidan bota ninduen arte, eta orduan hartu zuen agintea,"Esan Cuellar, hirugarren tituluaren defentsa egiten ari zena. "Zalantzarik gabe, gaur boxeo trebetasunak zituen. Borroka gogorra nahiago nuke, baina Maresek bere gaitasunak zituen gaur. Errebantxa nahi dut. Aukera eman nion eta orain bidezkoa iruditzen zait niri ematea».
Co-nagusia gertatuz gero, Charlok hiru aldiz jaitsi zuen Williams, bigarrenean behin eta bosgarrenean bitan. Williams, txanda bat galdu ez zuena 10 segidako borrokak, bere ibilbidean lehen aldiz jaitsi zen ezkerreko kontrako indartsu batetik bigarren itzuliaren erdialdean.
Williams, bere kontrakoa hasieran ezarri zuena, ondo aritu zen hurrengo bi txandetan garaitu gabeko 154 kiloko txapeldunen arteko lehen tituluen borrokan. Floyd Mayweather desmuntatu Canelo Alvarez in 2013.
Baina Charlok berriro jantzi zuen bosgarren txandaren erdian eskuineko uppercut basati batekin, Williamsek oihalaren gainean aurrez aurre eroriz.. Williams jaiki zen, baina argi eta garbi arazoak zituela. Charlok bigarren geruza bota zion ezker gantxo batekin, arbitroa behartuz Wayne Hedgepath lehiaketa berehala gelditzeko 2:06.
Charlo aurretik zegoen puntuazioekin 38-37 bosgarren txandan sartzen diren hiru txarteletan, garai onean dauden bi borrokalarien arteko norgehiagoka oso trebean.
Gero, borrokalarien eta euren izkinakideen arteko liskarra sortu zen, Charlok Williams-en zorion-eskua aitortu ez zuelako.. Williams berehala atera zen ringetik. Zaleek ozen ahuskatu zioten Charlori borroka osteko elkarrizketan zehar, Jim Gray SHOWTIMEko kazetariari.
«Egin behar nuena egin nuen, Oso nire performance pozik nago, Nire entrenatzaileari entzun nion,''esan zuen Charlok, WBC 154 kiloko txapeldunaren anaia biki berdina Jermell Charlo. «Gogor entrenatu nintzen borroka honetarako, Kiroldegian egon nintzen denbora guztian.
«Edozein, jendeak nire lorpenak errespetatu behar ditu. Ez zegoen nire mailan. Borroka iragarri zenetik denei esan nien zer egingo nuen. Banekien irabaziko nuela; kolpearen ostean oso min hartu zuen.
«Julian Williamsi esan nahi diot, Sentitzen dut. Borroka honetarako Julianek hitz egin zuen, eta eutsi nion. Egin behar nuena egin nuen munduko txapeldun izateko eta nire errespetua merezi dut. Errespetua falta zitzaidan borrokara arte. Borroka gauzatu nuen; Ikusi nahi zutena eman nien zaleei. -n geratu nintzen 154 kilo, igo nahi dudan arren 160, munduak ezin nuela irabazi esan zuen norbaiti aurre egiteko.
«Esan nuen ez nuela zure zorionak nahi; Zure barkamena nahi dut. Berdin zait zer esaten duten, kanporatu nuen. Nitaz esaten dutena ere gogor lanean jarraituko dut. Nire entrenatzaileak esan zidana egin nuen, Han geratu nintzen eta kolpea etxera iritsi zen. Ez zait inoiz errespetua faltako mutil honi, sekula ez, kolpatu nuen arte.
“Bai, bateratu nahi dut. Munduko pisu ertaineko junior onena naizela frogatu nahi dut, inor ez dago nire mailan.”
Williamsek ez zuen aitzakiarik eskaini. “Harrapatu berri dut,’ esan zuen. «Bigarren itzuliaren ostean ondo nengoen eta aurrera jarraitu nuen. Harrapatu ninduen. Ez zen handiegia. Harrapatu ninduen.
«Niri ez zitzaidan ezer axola [borroka osteko drama]. Irabazi nahi nuen».
Charlo-Williams SHOWTIME-n 154 kiloko laugarren borrokaldia izan zen 2016.
Bat-batean lehenago eman ziren borrokak Larunbata FACEBOOK LIVE-n, Sergey Lipinets (11-0, 9 Kos) errondan Lenny Zappavigna(35-3, 25 Kos) IBF Junior Welterweight Munduko Titulurako derrigorrezko erronka bihurtzea.
Zappavigna laugarren erdialdean zoru ondoren, Lipinets australiarrari buruz errematatu zuen zortzigarrenean eskuinera, lehia estu eta odoltsu batean..
“Bai, hau izan zen nire borrokarik gogorrena, odoltsua eta malkartsua da baina ez dago arazorik niretzat,'', esan zuen Lipinetsek. “Hau kanporaketa bat izan zen eta orain nire hurrengo borroka munduko txapelketarako izatea nahi dut. Julius Indogok IBF titulua du eta orain ni naiz derrigorrezkoa.
«Oso pozik nago nire jardunarekin. Borroketan moldatzen aritu gara eta hori oso ondo egin zait Gaur gauean. Kanporaketa espero nuen baina nire entrenatzaileak lanean jarraitzeko esan zuen eta geldialdia etorriko da».
«Dena zirkuluan utzi nuen,'', esan zuen Zappavignak. «Bihotzez borrokatu nuen eta nire onena ematera etorri nintzen hona. Nahiz eta galerarekin etsita nagoen, Emaitzarekin lasai nago, badakidalako ezin nuela beste ezer egin.
"Sergeyri onena opa diot bere munduko titulurako borrokan.
«Badakit nire zaleak atzean daudela eta harrotasuna ekartzen ari naizela Australiara. Badakit borroka kontrolpean nuela, baina nire australiar ‘white line sukarra’’ ostiko bat sartu eta burua kentzen saiatu nintzen».
Facebook Live-ko hasierako saioan, garaitu gabeko pisu ertaineko talentua Erickson Lubin (17-0, 12 Kos) aurretik behin irabazita kanporatua Juan Ubaldo Cabrera (23-2, 15 Kos) at 2:09 bigarren txandan.
«Lehen itzulian apur bat baldar izan zen,'', esan zuen Ericksonek. «Nire jabarekin ezarri nuen eta bigarrenean min hartu nuela banekien. Orduan jakin nuen hura joateko ordua zela.
“Uste dut borroka horrek behin betiko frogatzen duela eztabaidan nagoela kiroleko goi mailako eta iristen den artean, baina ez dut presiorik sentitzen. Gimnasiora itzuli naiz astelehenean.
“Txapeldun eztabaidaezina izan nahi dut. Gerriko guztiak nahi ditut. Emaidazu Charlos, Julian Williams, horietako edozein.
“Aurrean dagoena hartuko dut hurrengoan, baina izen horiek eta jarri letra lodiz eta badakizu Charlo-Williamsen borroka horretan izango naizela lehen eta erdian.”
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING bikoitza eta SHOWTIME INTERNATIONAL telesaila astelehenean emitituko dira berriro, Abendu. 12, 10 p.m. ET/PT SHOWTIME EXTREME-n. Borrokak Ringstar Sports eta TGB Promotions-ek sustatu zituzten eta Corona-k sustatu zituzten.
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JESUS CUELLAR vs. ABNER MARES, JERMALL CHARLO vs. JULIAN WILLIAMS WEIGHTS, ARGAZKIAK & COMMISSION OFFICIALS
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WBA Featherweight World Championship – 12 Bueltak
Jesus Cuellar – 124 Pounds
Abner Mares – 126 Pounds
Epailea: Jack Reiss; epaileek: Kermit Bayless (Kalifornia.), Max DeLuca (Kalifornia.), Dave Moretti (Nev.)
IBF Junior Middleweight World Championship – 12 Bueltak
Jermall Charlo – 153 ½ kilo
Julian Williams – 154 Pounds
Epailea: Wayne Hedgepeth; epaileek: Eddie Hernandez (Kalifornia.), Patrick Russell (Kalifornia.), Zachary Young (Kalifornia.)
SHOWTIME BOXING ON FACEBOOK LIVE - 8 p.m. ETA/5 p.m. PT
IBF Junior Welterweight World Title Eliminator – 12 Bueltak
Sergey Lipinets – 139 ¾ Pounds
Lenny Zappavigna – 139 ½ kilo
Middleweight Bout – 10 Bueltak
Erickson Lubin – 157 Pounds
Juan Ubaldo Cabrera – 159 Pounds
Zuzeneko gertaera sarrerak, hau da Ringstar Kirolak eta TGB Promozioak sustatutako, are on sale and are priced at $35, $50, $75, $150 eta $200. To purchase tickets go to www.galentix.com.
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SHOWTIME SPORTS® TO OFFER MULTI-CAMERA COVERAGE OF UNDERCARD FIGHTS ON FACEBOOK LIVE PRECEDING SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® THIS SATURDAY, DEC. 10
Hosted By Scott Hanson and Mark Kriegel, SHOWTIME BOXING on Facebook Live Features Sergey Lipinets vs. Lenny Zappavinga in a Jr. Welterweight Title Eliminator; And Unbeaten Prospect Erickson Lubin vs. Juan Ubaldo Cabrera
NEW YORK (Abendu. 8, 2016) – SHOWTIME Sports will offer multi-camera, fully-produced boxing coverage on Facebook Live on Larunbata, Abendu. 10 (8 p.m. ETA/5 p.m. PT), providing fight fans with high-quality access to live undercard bouts preceding that evening’s SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING doubleheader. The unique two-fight offering is the first timethe network has offered live boxing coverage exclusively on Facebook Live.
SHOWTIME BOXING on Facebook Live, from Galen Center on the campus at University of Southern California, features the 12-round IBF Junior Welterweight Title Eliminator between undefeated contender Sergey Lipinets (10-0, 8 Kos) and Lenny Zappavigna (35-2, 25 Kos). Also featured is a 10-round middleweight matchup between undefeated Erickson Lubin (16-0, 11 Kos) and once-beaten Juan Ubaldo Cabrera (23-1, 15 Kos).
Scott Hanson, known for his work as host of NFL RedZone and PBC on SPIKE, will call the action alongside best-selling author and Sports Emmy Award winning reporter Mark Kriegel.
SHOWTIME Sports also will live stream the final press conference ostegunean and the official weigh-in ostiralean via Facebook Live. Larunbata en live streaming fights will be available to the U.S. audience only.
The December 10 SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast is headlined by a featherweight world championship showdown between two of the best 126-pound fighters in the world, WBA titleholder Jesus Cuellar and former three-division world champion Abner Mares. The live SHOWTIME telecast begins at 10 p.m. ETA/7 p.m. PT with a matchup of undefeated rising stars, IBF Junior Middleweight World Champion Jermall Charlo taking on top-rated contender Julian “J-Rock” Williams. Horrez gain, earlier in the evening, SHOWTIME BOXING INTERNATIONAL will bring you the IBF Heavyweight World Championship fight between undefeated champion Anthony Joshua and American challenger Eric Molina on Larunbata, Abendu. 10, SHOWTIME bizi 5:30 p.m. ETA/2:30 p.m. PT.
SHOWTIME BOXING on Facebook Live is an extension of SHOWTIME BOXING on SHOWTIME EXTREME, the industry standard for live undercard boxing coverage. Both offerings provide bonus bouts to viewers at home, delivering an experience that was previously available only to fans in arena. Via Facebook Live, viewers are afforded the unique opportunity to interact with the boxing community during the event in real time.
The live stream is a prime example of Showtime Networks’ cutting-edge sports coverage. SHOWTIME Sports was the first to distribute a heavyweight world champion fight via multiple online portals including YouTube and Facebook (WBC Heavyweight World Champion Deontay Wilder vs. Arthur Pin, Jan. 2016) and Facebook. SHOWTIME Sports was the first to release a full fight in 360-degree Virtual Reality (Daniel Jacobs vs. Peter Quillin, Abendu. 2015; VIDEO:http://s.sho.com/1ZxBh1Z).
Over the past two years, SHOWTIME Sports has grown its digital presentations and franchises, providing innovative content across seven social platforms unique to audience interests. Among new reoccurring digital series are THE REVEAL with Mark Kriegel, featuring exclusive and in-depth interviews with boxing’s emerging stars, Fight Night, a short-form- 60 or 90-second capsules-capturing intimate, all-access moments surrounding a fight.