By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Mark Taffet has a wall full of college degrees. Not to mention a resume that’s surely the envy of reunion classmates from his days at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. But to hear him tell it, the former head of H...
Peter Nelson, the executive vice president of HBO Sports, is leaving the network “probably within the next 30-to-60” days, a source with knowledge of the plans told BoxingScene on Monday. Nelson, of course, is well known to boxing fans because of his...
HBO threw in the towel and ended its 45-year run with live boxing in 2018, but they are reentering the boxing ring again to create premium programming. The network is developing Unruly, a six-part series on the world’s first Black heavyweight boxing...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Legendary Nights. Though the current generation of boxing fans might not feel an instant connection, chances are good that anyone with a couple more decades under their belt already has an image in their head. In layman’s terms,...
By Manouk Akopyan - Top Rank boss Bob Arum has presided over two-thousand fight cards in the last five-plus decades, and although he was a part of 27 Muhammad Ali fights, he didn’t have the honor of promoting the “Fight of the Century” between Ali an...
After an 18-month stint developing new products for General Foods, Mark Taffet realized more stimulating challenges were desired in his career. Simply put, marketing peas and carrots, and other grocery store essentials, was not worth punching the clo...
Lou DiBella couldn’t help but feel nostalgic when looking at the undercard lineup for the next DAZN bill. The Hall of Fame-elected promoter has a vested interest in this week’s pre-Super Bowl boxing card, which airs live from Miami, Florida (Thursday...
By Mitch Abramson - It’s been 13 months since HBO decided to move away from boxing, and two things remain true. HBO still doesn’t do boxing, and Larry Merchant is still making astute observations. Yes, it’s been a little more than a year since HBO de...
As BoxingScene.com reported earlier, well known boxing judge Harold Lederman passed away at the age of 79-years-old, after a long battle with cancer. In 33 years as a judge, Lederman scored more than 100 world championship prizefights on six continen...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - If you’re a boxing fan of a certain age, it remains an indelible memory. And whether you watched the broadcast live or blearily scanned for results after a Saturday evening spent elsewhere, the moment a certain six-word phrase h...
The two-part HBO Sports documentary WHAT’S MY NAME | MUHAMMAD ALI, chronicling the extraordinary life of one of the 20th century’s most iconic figures, debuts TUESDAY, MAY 14 (8:00-10:40 p.m. ET/PT), with both chapters airing back-to-back in a specia...
Last year, Golden Boy Promotions made a big move when they signed an exclusive five year deal with streaming service DAZN. Golden Boy was looking for a new home after their longtime network partner, HBO, made an unexpected announcement to drop boxing...
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