
Showtime & PBC on CBS Weigh In Results
Check out the weigh in results for Showtime Championship Boxing and Premier Boxing Champions on CBS. Both fight cards happen on Saturday, July 18, 2015.
Check out the weigh in results for Showtime Championship Boxing and Premier Boxing Champions on CBS. Both fight cards happen on Saturday, July 18, 2015.
Top prospect, unbeaten Antoine “Action” Douglas of Burke, VA weighed-in at 159.8 pounds and Switzerland’s Istvan “The Prince” Szili measured 159.4 pounds during Thursday’s official weigh-in for the main event of this Friday, July 17 ShoBox: The New Generation 14th anniversary edition, live on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast).
Fighters competing on the huge Premier Boxing Champions on CBS and SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING cards held an open to the public final press conference Thursday before they enter the ring this Saturday, July 18 at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas.
In the main event of a Showtime Championship Boxing tripleheader on Saturday, July 18, 2015, former WBC Middleweight champion, Julio Chavez, Jr. (48-2-1, 32 KOs), meets fellow Mexican brawler Marcos Reyes (33-2, 24 KOs) in a 10-round super middleweight bout.
Fight week kicked off with media workouts at the Redstar and Castro Chiropractor Center in El Paso Wednesday for the huge day of boxing on Saturday, July 18 as Premier Boxing Champions on CBS and SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING bring a full day and night of action to the Don Haskins Center.
Following his loss to Andrzej Fonfara, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. decided to pair up with respected trainer Robert Garcia in his quest to once again earn boxing's world champion status.
SHOWTIME Sports® and CBS Sports will offer an action-packed weekend of fights spanning three different boxing series beginning with ShoBox: The New Generation on Friday, July 17, and concluding with a special afternoon-evening PBC on CBS doubleheader and SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING tripleheader from the same venue on Saturday, July 18.
One of the most recognizable names in boxing, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (48-2-1, 32 KOs) will attempt to get back on the winning track when he meets Mexico's Marcos "Dorado" Reyes (33-2, 24 KOs) on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT) on Saturday, July 18, from the Don Haskins Center at UTEP in El Paso, Texas.
The staff at RBRBoxing has saddled up again and decided to try our hand at some midyear awards for the categories of fight of the midyear, upset of the midyear, KO of the midyear, who is winning the TV battle, fighter of the midyear and round of the midyear.
Similar to January and February, the months of July and August usually tend to be slow in the sport of boxing. Fortunately for us fight fans, this July will provide a lot of good action highlighted by the premier of Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN, a card that will be headlined by Keith “One Time” Thurman, the return of “El Hijo De La Leyenda” Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., as well as Sergey Kovalev’s second fight on HBO in 2015.
The popular and respected prospect-oriented developmental boxing series ShoBox: The New Generation will celebrate its 14th anniversary on Friday, July 17, with a quadrupleheader live on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) featuring eight promising boxers with a combined record of 125-4-4 with 1 No Contest and 75 knockouts.
Is Deontay Wilder the future of the Heavyweight division? Mike Burnell offers his thoughts on the matter.
Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) did enough on two judges' scorecards to earn a 10-round split-decision win over the always awkward Sam Soliman (44-12, 18 Kos) at the Little Creek Casino Resort in Shelton Washington.
Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs) returned to his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, to knockout Eric Molina (23-2, 17 KOs) in Round 9 of the first successful defense of his WBC Heavyweight title at the Bartow Arena.
Jose Pedraza (20-0, 12 KOs) scored a 12-round unanimous decision victory over Andrey Klimov (19-2, 9 KOs) to win the IBF Super Featherweight title at the Bartow Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.