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Roberto Valenzuela, Jr. and Xander Zayas fight for the NABO/ NABF Junior Middleweight Titles live on ESPN during a Top Rank bout at the American Bank Center on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Corpus ...
The original Top Rank Boxing on ESPN was the longest-running cable series and weekly boxing series in history, after celebrating its 16th consecutive year in 1996. ESPN broke away from the contract afterward, replacing it with Friday Night Fights—a new series that would feature fights from other promotions and aired on ESPN2. [4]
The cable television network ESPN has occasionally broadcast boxing events over the majority of its history, as part of several arrangements, including contracts with specific promotions and consortiums such as Golden Boy Promotions, Premier Boxing Champions, and Top Rank, as well as Friday Night Fights—a semi-regular series that was broadcast by ESPN and ESPN2 from 1998 through 2015.
ESPN has picked up the original series “The Fight Life,” which chronicles one year in the lives of five Top Rank Boxing stars. The five-episode docuseries, which premieres Oct. 7 on ESPN+ ...
Haney, a practicing Muslim, indicated that he preferred the fight to take place before March, so as to not conflict with Ramadan. He also accused his promoter Top Rank of favoritism towards Lomachenko, claiming that Top Rank and Lomachenko's management wanted the fight pushed to May to force him to stay weight-drained for longer. [3]
— Top Rank Boxing (@trboxing) February 9, 2024 “I stuck to the game plan,” Ortiz said on ESPN. “I was doing good, I thought I was winning, that’s what I believe, I believe I won the fight.
In the United States, the fight was acquired by ESPN; it marked a return of Top Rank boxing to the network, after having previously aired fights on ESPN from 1980 to 1996. It marked the first time that a Pacquiao bout would air on a non-premium, basic cable channel in the United States, and his first non-PPV bout in the U.S. since 2005. [ 24 ]
The Japanese has been No 1 on Indy Sport’s pound-for-pound list for some time now, with the best knockout percentage (22 from 25 unanswered wins) of any fighter in those rankings, and he does ...