0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/21/2015
After 17 years of busted pipes and broken noses, ESPN’s Friday Night Fights is hanging up the gloves. FNF, which brought close to 1,000 fights into American living rooms over its run, will make way for Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN, the latest stage of Al Haymon’s takeover of U.S. boxing (PBC already airs on NBC, CBS/Showtime and Spike). In […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 4/8/2015
If airing promos where Danny Garcia looks into the camera and declares himself a ladies’ man several times an hour was Premier Boxing Champions’ push to have people dislike him even more than they already do, it was an award-winning triumph. Lamont Peterson likely gained a supporter or two as a result of Garcia’s appeal […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 3/22/2014
If Vanes Martirosyan could have asked for an opponent to make him look good on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, he would have. That’s where “home” is for Martirosyan. With two exceptions — a bullshit technical draw against Erislandy Lara and a loss to Demtrius Andrade — he has spent his career looking good against hopelessly overmatched […]
