Fox committed to PPV but also widening audience
If pay-per-view in boxing is dead, Fox clearly didn’t receive the memo. The November 23 heavyweight rematch between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz will be distributed by the network, it was announced...
View ArticleFans cannot sue over Mayweather-Pacquiao bout, U.S. appeals court rules
Fans who felt swindled after learning that Manny Pacquiao was injured going into his long-awaited fight with Floyd Mayweather in 2015 cannot follow through with a class-action lawsuit because they were...
View ArticleMark Taffet: Ali vs. Shields could be 'one of biggest pay-per-view fights'
Laila Ali got a taste of the potential of pay-per-view when her fight with Jacqui Frazier-Lyde, Joe Frazier’s daughter, generated a reported 100,000 buys 2001. That number is nothing compared to what a...
View ArticleFox committed to PPV but also widening audience
If pay-per-view in boxing is dead, Fox clearly didn’t receive the memo. The November 23 heavyweight rematch between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz will be distributed by the network, it was announced...
View ArticleFans cannot sue over Mayweather-Pacquiao bout, U.S. appeals court rules
Fans who felt swindled after learning that Manny Pacquiao was injured going into his long-awaited fight with Floyd Mayweather in 2015 cannot follow through with a class-action lawsuit because they were...
View ArticleMark Taffet: Ali vs. Shields could be 'one of biggest pay-per-view fights'
Laila Ali got a taste of the potential of pay-per-view when her fight with Jacqui Frazier-Lyde, Joe Frazier’s daughter, generated a reported 100,000 buys 2001. That number is nothing compared to what a...
View ArticleTriller Fight Club hires Jim Lampley as its blow-by-blow voice
Jim Lampley is returning to boxing. Triller Fight Club, the new boxing promotional company, announced on Tuesday that it has hired the longtime HBO and Hall of Fame blow-by-blow commentator. Lampley’s...
View ArticleReport: Broadcaster Larry Merchant, 92, in critical care unit of L.A.-area...
Larry Merchant, the longtime television analyst for HBO Boxing, is in the critical care unit of a Los Angeles-area hospital, TMZ is reporting. The outlet is reporting that an ambulance transported...
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