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HBO World Championship Boxing (in later years stylized in its title card as HBO Boxing – World Championship) is an American sports television series on premium television network HBO. It premiered on January 22, 1973, with a fight that saw George Foreman defeat Joe Frazier in Kingston, Jamaica .
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson (R), shown with Spike Lee, is one of many stars in boxing who appeared on HBO. HBO, the network that once billed itself as “the heart and soul of boxing ...
In 1987, Lampley moved to CBS. At CBS, he took over duties as co-anchor on the daily news show in Los Angeles, and also was a correspondent. That same year, he began working for HBO, covering boxing and HBO's annual telecast of the Wimbledon Championships. He also attended the Albertville Olympics in 1992, as a news anchor for KCBS-TV.
HBO was a good steward of boxing for much of its time, but its time has come.
The creation of Premier Boxing Champions in 2015 heralded a new, and seemingly better way, of broadcasting boxing. Even as HBO was still calling itself the heart and soul of boxing, PBC founder Al ...
"Marvelous" Marvin Hagler defeated John "The Beast" Mugabi in an 11th-round knockout on the debut broadcast of Showtime Championship Boxing on March 10, 1986. On the same undercard, Gaby Canizales defeated Richie Sandoval (who subsequently almost died from the blows received in this bout) and Thomas Hearns defeated James Shuler, who died a week after this bout in a motorcycle accident.
Harold Lederman (January 26, 1940 – May 11, 2019) was an American boxing judge and analyst. He began his career as a boxing judge in 1967 and joined the cast of HBO World Championship Boxing in 1986, and was there until HBO dropped boxing in 2018. Lederman was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the class of 2016. Lederman ...
Showtime Championship Boxing debuted in March 1986 and outlasted HBO, its cable rival, by five years in the sport. Showtime announced two months ago that it also would be leaving boxing, with its ...
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