SHOWTIME Sports activities and Premier Boxing Champions right this moment introduced 9 boxing occasions throughout the primary half of 2022 that includes a few of the sport’s most achieved and dynamic stars in extremely aggressive matchups. The lineup pits champions towards champions and prime contenders towards prime contenders to type the strongest and most formidable schedule within the business.
The sturdy lineup consists of:
9 marquee occasions throughout 5 months that includes 21 undefeated fighters;
Two world championship unifications bouts, one for all 4 world title belts and the coveted title of Undisputed Champion, and one for 3 world title belts;
Seven world championship matches with no less than 13 world title belts at stake and three world title eliminators;
The entire top-six ranked tremendous welterweights combating in a seven-week span;
A number of pivotal crossroads fights from tremendous bantamweight to tremendous middleweight with a median of two occasions monthly via July.
The large schedule options the game’s greatest stars: Errol Spence, Jr., Gervonta “Tank” Davis, Jermell Charlo, David Benavidez and Jermall Charlo.
There are additionally 18 fighters aged 27 years and youthful together with unified world champion Stephen Fulton, Jr., and extremely regarded, undefeated welterweight contender Jaron “Boots” Ennis. With this emphasis on youth and kingmaking, SHOWTIME Sports activities and Premier Boxing Champions are effectively positioned to hold the game into the long run.
Led by Stephen Espinoza, President, Sports activities & Occasion Programming, Showtime Networks Inc., and four-time Emmy® Award-winning govt producer David Dinkins, Jr., who guides an all-star solid of commentators and manufacturing aces, SHOWTIME® stays essentially the most tenured and trusted platform in boxing.
Arguably the very best energetic welterweight of this period, the undefeated Spence, already a unified champ, will search to gather a 3rd world title when he places his WBC and IBF straps on the road towards WBA World Champion Yordenis Ugas on Saturday, April 16 in the principle occasion on SHOWTIME PPV® at AT&T Stadium, residence of the Dallas Cowboys. Spence-Ugas is just the twelfth unification match within the historical past of the welterweight division, becoming a member of basic matchups equivalent to “Sugar” Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns I and Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao. The match is wealthy with intrigue as Spence makes an attempt to assert supremacy in considered one of boxing’s deepest divisions, whereas Ugas, who practically give up the game, goals to finish a shocking turnaround after beating eight-division world champion Pacquiao in August.
Boxing celebrity and five-time, three-division world champion Tank Davis will headline his fourth straight SHOWTIME PPV occasion towards nemesis Rolando Romero on Saturday, Might 28, at Barclays Heart in Brooklyn, NY, for Davis’ WBA Light-weight World Title. The bout comes on the heels of Davis’ hard-fought 12-round unanimous resolution win over Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz wherein Davis overcame an damage in entrance of a star-studded, sellout crowd in Los Angeles final December.
WBO 154-pound No. 1-ranked contender Tim Tszyu, the son of Corridor of Famer Kostya Tszyu, who fought a lot of his most memorable bouts on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING, will make his U.S. debut Saturday, March 26 towards 2012 U.S. Olympian and prime contender Terrell Gausha at The Armory in Minneapolis. The streaking southpaws Erickson Lubin and Sebastian Fundora will have interaction in a Tremendous Welterweight Title Eliminator, for the WBC interim title, within the second of back-to-back, intriguing crossroads matchups within the division on Saturday, April 9 from Virgin Accommodations in Las Vegas.
Jermell Charlo and Brian Castaño as soon as once more will search to grow to be the primary undisputed 154-pound champion within the four-belt period and simply the third general undisputed champion right this moment once they meet in a rematch of their 2021 basic on Saturday, Might 14 in Los Angeles. Plus, rising welterweight star Ennis, presumably essentially the most proficient boxer but to win a world title, returns because the co-feature towards Custio Clayton in an IBF Welterweight Title Eliminator.
Former two-time world champion Benavidez returns to motion on Saturday, Might 21 towards knockout artist David Lemieux at 168 kilos in Phoenix, Ariz., in a bout between two of the game’s greatest punchers.
Fulton, in his first bout since his title unification win within the 122-pound division towards Brandon Figueroa, will defend his titles on Saturday, June 4 in Minneapolis, towards former unified world champion Danny Roman in one other can’t miss matchup.
Jermall Charlo will defend his WBC Middleweight World Championship for the fifth time on Saturday, June 18, when he faces former world title challenger, WBC No. 6-ranked Maciej Sulecki on the Juneteenth vacation weekend in Houston.
On Saturday, July 9, in San Antonio, Texas, newly minted WBC Featherweight World Champion Mark Magsayo will make his first title protection since dethroning Gary Russell Jr., on SHOWTIME towards unbeaten necessary challenger and former tremendous bantamweight titleholder Rey Vargas.
Further high-stakes matches can be introduced as particular person combat playing cards fill out.
“It’s a superb time to be a boxing fan and SHOWTIME viewer with so many high-level, consequential matchups on our schedule,” stated Espinoza, President, Sports activities & Occasion Programming, Showtime Networks Inc. “We proceed to develop the game at each stage, from our grassroots sequence SHOBOX to crowning unified and undisputed champions throughout boxing’s deepest divisions. When you think about the aggressive nature of those fights, the star energy of fighters like Errol Spence, Jr., ‘Tank’ Davis, David Benavidez, the Charlo brothers—and the youthful vitality of Stephen Fulton, Jr., Jaron Ennis and Brandun Lee—it’s by no means been clearer that SHOWTIME is the vacation spot for essentially the most compelling fights and can be for years to come back. This SHOWTIME Boxing lineup is fingers down essentially the most potent of any community or platform in 2022.”
The SHOWTIME Sports activities boxing schedule options seven editions of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® and two important SHOWTIME PPV occasions, all offered by Premier Boxing Champions:
March 26 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
The Armory, Minneapolis, Minn.
Tim Tszyu vs. Terrell Gausha, Tremendous Welterweight Bout
Michel Rivera vs. Joseph Adorno, Light-weight Bout
Elvis Rodriguez vs. Juan Jose Velasco, Tremendous Light-weight (142 LBS) Bout
April 9 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
The Theatre at Virgin Accommodations, Las Vegas
Erickson Lubin vs. Sebastian Fundora, WBC Tremendous Welterweight Interim Title
Tony Harrison vs. Sergio Garcia, Tremendous Welterweight Bout
Kevin Salgado vs. Bryant Perrella, Tremendous Welterweight Bout
April 16 – SHOWTIME PPV
AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas
Errol Spence Jr. vs. Yordenis Ugas, WBC, WBA & IBF Welterweight World Championship Unification
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING (previous PPV):
Radzhab Butaev vs. Eimantas Stanionis, WBA Welterweight Title Bout
Brandun Lee vs. Zachary Ochoa, Tremendous Light-weight Bout
Might 14 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
Los Angeles
Jermell Charlo vs. Brian Castaño II, Undisputed IBF, WBA, WBC & WBO Tremendous Welterweight World Championship Unification
Jaron Ennis vs. Custio Clayton, IBF Welterweight Eliminator
Might 21 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
Phoenix
David Benavidez vs. David Lemieux, Tremendous Middleweight Bout
Yoelvis Gomez vs. Jorge Cota, Tremendous Welterweight Bout
Might 28 – SHOWTIME PPV
Barclays Heart, Brooklyn, NY
Gervonta Davis vs. Rolando Romero, WBA Light-weight World Championship
June 4 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
Minneapolis
Stephen Fulton, Jr. vs. Danny Roman, WBO & WBC Tremendous Bantamweight World Championship
David Morrell vs. Kalvin Henderson, WBA Tremendous Middleweight World Title
June 18 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
Houston
Jermall Charlo vs. Maciej Sulecki, WBC Middleweight World Championship
July 9 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
San Antonio
Mark Magsayo vs. Rey Vargas, WBC Featherweight World Championship
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