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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.
Both were open-ended programs – as the station signed off the air after the last bout ended (in the early days of television, most stations did not have late-night local newscasts). St. Nicholas Arena in New York City was the site of the earliest bouts and continued to host the Monday night fights until that program's cancellation in May 1949.
USA Tuesday Night Fights (also known as Friday Night Boxing, Wednesday Night Fights, and Thursday Night Fights) is a television boxing show. It aired from October 1, 1982 to August 25, 1998 on the USA Network; at one time it was the longest-running boxing show on television.
The earliest incarnation of NBC's boxing telecasts could be traced back to 1944. Although technically an anthology program, the Cavalcade of Sports was best known for Friday night boxing (from Madison Square Garden) on NBC from 1944 through 1960, and (after NBC decided against featuring boxing due to sensitivity over criminal allegations in the sport) then for several more years on ABC.
He made his professional boxing debut on December 1, 2011, at a packed Fight Night Club at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, aired on Fox Sports Net, winning by unanimous decision. [1] [5] On March 31 Wohlman scored his first knockout, to improve his record to 3–0 (1 KO), over Clifford McPherson. [8]
The real fight, the one with significance, skill, and legacy on the line, is happening in the match before theirs and is between two women: Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano.
UFC Fight Night 258 is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on May 3, 2025 at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
Embattled Finnish mobile-phone giant Nokia (NYS: NOK) has finally taken the wraps off its latest, greatest, and fastest smartphone -- the Lumia 900. It's the phone that's supposed to spearhead the ...