Fox Sports, Premier Boxing Champions Set Upcoming Fight Schedule
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Fox Sports and Premier Boxing Champions announced eight televised world title fights in the first three months of the new deal, featuring eight world champions and more than two dozen of the world’s best boxers going toe-to-toe. The schedule includes five world-class boxing fight nights live on Fox and Fox Deportes, four more on FS1 and Fox Deportes, and the first Fox PBC Pay-Per-View in March.
“We’re thrilled to have Premier Boxing Champions’ brightest stars coming to Fox Sports reaching the biggest audiences on broadcast television,” says Mark Silverman, Fox Sports President, National Networks. “The 2019 PBC schedule kicks off with high-stakes action and excitement, making Fox the premier home for boxing and the continued leader in live sporting events.”
Schedule highlights include world champion twins Jermall and Jermell Charlo defending their titles in separate fights live in primetime on Fox on December 22; followed by welterweight champion Keith Thurman’s ring return on Fox January 26; featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz headlining on Fox February 23; 147-pound Champ Shawn Porter defending his world title March 9 on Fox; and the blockbuster showdown between welterweight Champ Errol Spence Jr. and four-division world champion Mikey Garcia, on Fox Sports PBC Pay-Per-View March 16, live from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Fox Sports and Fox Deportes also announced the on-air personalities who will call all the thrilling action. Former heavyweight world Champion Lennox Lewis and former lightweight world champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini join FOX Sports as boxing analysts, while Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Chris Myers and Emmy Award-nominee Kenny Albert serve as blow-by-blow announcers. Seasoned FOX broadcaster Kate Abdo joins as a studio and fight night host. Plus, Boxing Hall of Famer Larry Hazzard works as a Rules Expert/Unofficial Scorer.
FOX Deportes taps International Boxing Hall of Fame member and former four-division world champion Erik “El Terrible” Morales, working with Jaime Motta and Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award winner Jessi Losada.
Fox Sports PBC Additional Dates (Fights confirmed on a later date):
- Saturday, May 11, 2019, Fox
- Saturday, May 25, 2019, FS1
- Saturday, June 1, 2019, FS1
- Sunday, June 23, 2019, Fox
- Saturday, July 13, 2019, FS1
- Saturday, July 20, 2019, Fox
- Saturday, August 3, 2019, Fox
- Saturday, August 24, 2019, FS1
- Sunday, September 1, 2019, Fox
- Saturday, September 21, 2019, FS1
- Saturday, November 9, 2019, FS1
- Saturday, December 14, 2019 on Fox
- Saturday, December 21, 2019 on FS1
With the recently announced four-year deal, the Fox broadcast network will feature 10 marquee fight nights in prime time each year, while FS1 and Fox Deportes will telecast 12 fight nights annually. The package includes Fox Sports-PBC Pay-Per-View events. Fox Sports production team will produce more than 175 hours of original PBC boxing content per year across its channels.
All PBC on Fox Sports events and programming will be streamed live on the Fox Sports app, available in English or Spanish through the Fox, FS1 or Fox Deportes feeds. Fox Sports will offer a platform inside the app to allow viewers to stream the PPV events. In addition, Fox Sports Digital will have a dedicated FOXSports.com and Fox Sports App page for PBC coverage, in addition to dedicated YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram channels.
Fox Sports and PBC launched the highly regarded primetime boxing series Toe-to-Toe Tuesdays on FS1 and Fox Deportes in the fall of 2015, featuring PBC’s brightest up-and-coming boxers. The deal was expanded to include several fight nights on the Fox broadcast network, including exciting title fights such as heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder defending his title in February of 2016, July of 2016, and again in February of 2017, plus the exciting welterweight showdown between Danny Garcia and Robert Guerrero in January of 2016.
