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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, Xuño 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 Trindade, Ricardo López, George Foreman & More Showcased In March
Prema AQUI For A Look Back At Some Of The Legendary Moments On SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: http://s.sho.com/1RkA3CE
Nova York (Marzo 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, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Felix Trindade, 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. E/PT na canle Showtime EXTREME.
O Xoves, Marzo 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 Anytime® 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:
- Mañá, Xoves, Marzo 3: Terry Norris vs. Sugar Ray Leonard
- Xoves, Marzo 10: Marvin Hagler vs. John Mugabi
- Xoves, Marzo 17: Felix Trinidad vs. David Reid
- Xoves, Marzo 24: Ricardo Lopez vs. Rosendo Alvarez II
- Xoves, Marzo 31: Iran Barkley vs. Thomas Hearns I, George Foreman vs. Gerry Cooney (10:15 p.m. E/PT), Gerald McClellan vs. Julian Jackson I (10:30 p.m. ET / ES)
In celebration of the best rivalries on SHOWTIME, see below for a special column from SHOWTIME Sports expert analyst and boxing historian Steve 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’ tarxetas.
And oh, si: 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.
No 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 (Marzo 1986), was the final win of his career. Undefeated over 10 anos, 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.
Sugar 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. De feito, 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, Sugar Ray, 34, chose outstanding 23-year-old super welterweight titlist Terry Norris as his opponent. Leonard dropped from 160 para 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.
Ademais, Whitaker, De La Hoya, and Reid had all been gold medalists.
The fight we’ll feature on Marzo 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 Cotta, 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 libras) 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. De feito, 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, ben, there were some one-punch kayos sprinkled in.
López, 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-WORLD TIME CAMPIÓN THOMAS”O Hitman” HEARNS CONFIRMED FOR SECOND ANNUAL BOX FAN EXPO TAKING PLACE SATURDAY IN LAS VEGAS
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O evento experiencia fan final que dá aos fans de boxeo a oportunidade de coñecer e cumprimento mellores loitadores, famosos e persoas da industria de boxeo
in an up-close, definición persoal
Las Vegas (Sete. 8, 2015) – Oito veces campión mundial Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns confirmou que vai aparecer e ter un posto no Centro de Convencións de Las Vegas para a segunda Expo anual Fan Box, que terá lugar Sábado. A Expo de Boxeo vai coincidir co Floyd Mayweather vs Andre Berto loita do campionato, que terá lugar máis tarde naquela noite e fin de semana da Independencia mexicana. Os ingresos para a Expo Fan Box están dispoñibles en liña en:http://www.boxfanexpo.
Hearns máis notoriamente coñecido como “The Hitman,” converteuse no primeiro boxeador da historia en gañar títulos mundiais en catro divisións. Tamén ía converterse no primeiro loitador na historia a gañar cinco títulos mundiais en cinco divisións distintas. Hearns foi nomeado Revista Loitador do Ano no Anel 1980 e 1984 e é máis coñecido polas súas loitas con Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler e Roberto Durán. Foi introducido no Salón da Fama do Boxeo en 2012. Hearns tamén terá na man, Camisetas, luvas e imaxes asinados para os fans de mercar e gozar.
Hearns únese ao seu vello rival Duran, Tim Bradley, Zab Judah, James Toney, Sergio Martínez, Shawn Porter, Mia St. Baño, Terry Norris, Joel Casamayor, Fernando Vargas, Ruslan Provodnikov, Ray Mancini, Jessie Vargas, Mike McCallum, Austin Trout, Kevin Kelley, árbitro Richard Steele, o Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, o Consello Mundial de Boxeo (WBC) e da Asociación Mundial de Boxeo (WBA) entre os primeiros compromisos coa Expo Fan Box deste ano.
Este evento único experiencia fan, que permitiu que os fans para coñecer e cumprimento lendas do boxeo, campións do pasado e actuais e outras celebridades do deporte, estreou en setembro pasado. Este ano, a Expo será executado desde10 a.m. para 5 p.m. e unha vez máis, permitir que os fans a oportunidade de recoller autógrafos, sacar fotos e mercadorías compra e recordos.
Expositores como engrenaxe de boxeo, vestiario, transmitindo a medios e outras empresas de marca que desexen participar terán a oportunidade de amosar os seus produtos para os fans e toda a industria de boxeo.
Inaugural Expo Fan Box do ano pasado contou con algúns dos loitadores máis populares e famosos de boxeo na historia recente. Os fans foron brindados con visitas con Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr, Martinez, Amir Khan, Xudá, Mikey Garcia,Toney, Riddick Bowe, Leon Spinks Terry Norris, Desgaste, Chris Byrd, Jesse James Leija, Lamon Brewster, Ray Mercer, Earnie Shavers, St-John, Erislandy Lara, Peter Quillin, Jean Pascal e Austin Trout. Tamén aparecen eran actual campión WBC Deontay Wilder, Vinny Pazienza o carismático, Paul Williams, comentarista observou Al Bernstein e adestrador Roger Mayweather de Promocións Mayweather.
A lista de participantes para este ano Box Fan Expo vai seguir sendo anunciados nos próximos días previos ao evento.
Para calquera persoa nas empresas da industria de boxeo ou marcas que desexen se involucrar e reservar unha cabina como expositor ou oportunidades de patrocinio, póñase en contacto Fan Box Expo en:
Número de teléfono U.S.A: (702) 997-1927 ou (514) 572-7222
Para calquera dúbida, por favor enviar correo-e: boxfanexpo@gmail.com
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