An oral history of The Rise & Fall of the HBO Boxing Empire
This is a truncated version of the Oral history of The Rise & Fall of the HBO Boxing Empire. The...
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Had Vernon Forrest chosen differently on the night of July 25, 2009, it is very likely that this day --...
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As competent a pharmacist, Harold Lederman was a beloved TV fixture who was even more competent as HBO’s ‘unofficial official.’ Ross Greenburg looks back.
read moreCompuBox: 30 years and (still) counting
Today marks the 30th year of CompuBox being an integral part of boxing as we know it. And who better to offer us a look back than longtime CompuBox mainstay (and our own) Lee Groves?
read moreAll Access: Mayweather vs. Canelo premieres Aug. 24
All Access: Mayweather vs. Canelo premieres next Saturday on Showtime, preceding the Abner Mares-Jhonny Gonzalez WBC featherweight title bout. The series documents Floyd Mayweather’s and Canelo Alvarez’s lives during the build up to their anticipated Sept. 14 junior middleweight championship bout.
read moreQ&A: Schaefer discusses Mayweather’s move to Showtime
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer says Floyd Mayweather’s move to Showtime ends the days when the network could not compete with rival U.S. cable giant HBO.
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