HBO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING

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'''HBO World Championship Boxing''' is a sports television series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades.
WCB's first event was fought in Kingston, Jamaica, where George Foreman defeated Joe Frazier in two rounds to win the world heavyweight championship.

Contents

Memorable events

Commentators past and present

See also

External links

Memorable events

Some other boxing events covered in the series include:

★ The Rumble in the Jungle, in which Muhammad Ali beat Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire

★ Thrilla In Manila, when Ali beat Frazier in their third and last fight

★ Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney, for the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship

★ The Battle of The Champions, when Aaron Pryor beat Alexis Arguello in their first fight

★ Carnival of Champions, in which Wilfredo Gómez beat Lupe Pintor, and Thomas Hearns beat Wilfredo Benitez

★ Marvin Hagler- Thomas Hearns fight, billed as The War

★ Thunder Meets Lightning, in which Julio César Chávez beat Meldrick Taylor with two seconds remaining in the twelfth round;

★ The biggest upset in heavyweight boxing history, when James "Buster" Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson for the undisputed world heavyweight title in Tokyo, Japan

★ The World Awaits- Floyd Mayweather Jr. beat Oscar De La Hoya for the WBC light-middleweight title.
''World Championship Boxing'' has also had two spin-off series, ''Boxing After Dark'' and ''KO Nation''.
Additionally, a video game carrying the brand name ''HBO Boxing'' was produced for the Sony PlayStation.

Commentators past and present

★ Emanuel Steward (current)

★ Barry Tompkins

★ Fran Charles

★ George Foreman

★ Gil Clancy

★ Harold Lederman (current)

★ Howard Cosell

★ Jim Lampley (current)

★ Larry Merchant (current)

★ Lennox Lewis (current; replacement for Steward)

★ Max Kellerman

★ Roy Jones, Jr.

★ Sugar Ray Leonard
For pay-per-view fights, Bob Costas and James Brown have been called in on occasion to oversee the telecast while Lampley calls the fight.

See also

★ ''ESPN Friday Night Fights'' (a television boxing program airing on ESPN2 from 1998-present)

★ ''Boxing After Dark'' (a television boxing program airing on HBO from 1996-present)

★ ''KO Nation'' (a short-lived television boxing program that aired on HBO from 2000-01)

★ '' (a television boxing program airing on Showtime from 2001-present)

External links

★ ''HBO Boxing'' (HBO's Boxing website, updated weekly)

★ HBO Boxing Schedule