The Final Bell: Showtime Marks ‘End Of An Era’ With Special As Premium Cabler Wraps Boxing Coverage – Watch
deadline.comShowtime is hanging up its gloves. After 37 years of boxing action, Showtime Sports has signed off for the final time. Paramount Global confirmed in October that the network’s sports operation will be dissolved by the end of the year, with future sports programming falling under the CBS Sports banner.
Sports chief Stephen Espinoza and his team will depart at the end of the year. Now Showtime Boxing’s four decades chronicling the sport, the athletes involved and some of its greatest bouts has been documented in End of an Era, a 38-minute special produced by multi-time Emmy-winner Sam Shouvlin and Emmy-nominated All Access director Nick Manning.
Among those bouts are “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler’s defeat of John “The Beast” Mugabi, both of Mike Tyson‘s epic battles with Razor Ruddock, Evander Holyfield bouts with Buster Douglas and Michael Morrer, Tyson-Holyfield I and II, Pernell Whitaker vs.
Julio César Chávez, Diego Corrales’ defeat of José Luis Castillo, Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley, the 2018 bout between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury, several Jake Paul fights and Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s bouts against Canelo Álvarez, Marcos Maidana, Manny Pacquiao Conor McGregor and Logan Paul.
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