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On May 11, HBO officially released that the fight generated $78.3 million in revenue. [11] According to initial inside sources the PPV buyrate was expected to be around 1.1 to 1.5 million. buys. [15] With Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, who sponsored the fight saying he first thought that the buyrate would be around 3.5 to 4 ...
In a non-title boxing match, welterweight champion Shane Mosley loses to Floyd Mayweather by unanimous decision. Bolivia nationalises four electricity companies. (Bangkok Post) [permanent dead link ]
This was the first boxing match held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, drawing more than 41,000 people. This was Pacquiao's first defense of his newly awarded WBO welterweight title. March 20 – Wladimir Klitschko knocks out Eddie Chambers with a fierce left to the temple with five seconds left in the fight.
He watched boxing on TV and said, "I can do better than that," and soon the prison was bringing in boxers for him to fight. [7] "They had fight cards in prison. I sat around watching them for a while and finally said to myself, 'I can do that,'" Lyle said. [8] In his first match for the prison boxing team, Lyle was said to be defeated by Texas ...
1. On Oct. 1, 1975, heavyweights Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met for the third and final time in Manila, Philippines, of all places. It turned out to be, in my view, the greatest fight in boxing ...
Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano, billed as For History, was a women's lightweight professional boxing match contested between the undisputed world champion Katie Taylor and seven-division world champion Amanda Serrano. The bout was held on April 30, 2022, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with Taylor's undisputed lightweight titles on ...
Women’s boxing matches are usually ten rounds at most, with two minutes per round, while men's boxing matches are twelve rounds of three minutes each. [ 227 ] [ 228 ] In 2017 the president of the World Boxing Council stated, “The WBC will not sanction any bout for women if rounds are scheduled for 3 minutes, and will not sanction any bout ...
Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito, billed as "The Eighth Wonder of the World", was a professional boxing match contested on November 13, 2010, for the vacant WBC super welterweight championship. [ 1 ]