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In 1953, Ray Arcel [5] began promoting bouts on ABC. Unfortunately, shortly after arranging the fights for ABC, [6] Arcel [7] ran afoul of organized crime. The matches on ABC competed with other network television fights run by the International Boxing Club [8] (IBC), who were reputed to have underworld ties.
After the EoS article was published, TICC founder Luis Hernandez received a phone call from Cosmos Senior Vice President Joe Barone. Barone complained about TICC's coverage of the Cosmos, and claimed to have himself received an angry phone call from Commisso, then in Saudi Arabia for a friendly match. Hernandez said "We feel we just have to ...
Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano; Félix Trinidad vs. Bernard Hopkins; Félix Trinidad vs. Roy Jones Jr. Félix Trinidad vs. Ricardo Mayorga; Félix Trinidad vs. Pernell Whitaker; Mike Tyson vs. Mitch Green
If at first — or second, or third — you don't succeed, try, try again. San Francisco's Jake Moody missed three field goals Sunday afternoon against Tampa Bay, but made one that he needed to ...
Final Battle featured professional wrestling matches, which involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on ROH's television programs prior to the show.
Fight of the Week is a live American professional boxing series that aired on ABC-TV from 1960 to 1964. [1]After NBC-TV's cancellation of The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports in the spring of 1960, ABC took over the prime time boxing program, although it was renamed Fight of the Week.
Michael Nunn vs. James Toney, billed as Rumble on the Riverbank, was a professional boxing match contested on May 10, 1991, for the IBF middleweight title. [ 1 ] Background
Joe Calzaghe vs. Peter Manfredo Jr., billed as Pride Under Pressure, was a professional boxing match contested on 7 April 2007, for the WBO and The Ring super middleweight championship. [1] The bout took place at Millennium Stadium , with Calzaghe winning by technical knockout in the third round.