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SHOWTIME SPORTS® OFFERS FIRST LOOK AT VIDEO FEATURE SHOWCASING THE RISE OF TALENTED 130-POUNDER CHRIS COLBERT PhilBoxing.com Sun, 27 Feb 2022  Feature Will Air on Tonight’s SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® Telecast Beginning at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT NEW YORK – February 26, 2022 – SHOWTIME Sports has released a video feature showcasing the rapid rise to the brink of a world championship opportunity of Brooklyn’s flashy and talented undefeated rising star Chris “Primetime” Colbert. Colbert takes on undefeated Dominican Olympian Hector Garcia tonight, Saturday February 26 live on SHOWTIME at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT from The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in a WBA Super Featherweight Title Eliminator. “To be honest, my rise in this sport really wasn’t super hard because I put in the time,” says Colbert, who takes his inspiration for his ring moniker from Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders. “I put in everything to get to where I am. I always knew I was that guy. In the words of Deion Sanders, ‘Everybody’s trying to be that guy until it’s time to be that guy.’ You gotta be born that guy. I was born that guy.” Throughout his career, Colbert has dyed his hair different colors to bring attention to a cause near to his heart. Past examples have included orange for multiple sclerosis, pink for breast cancer, green for epilepsy, red for sickle cell anemia and gold for childhood cancer. For this fight, Colbert chose to dye his hair the color blue to support autism awareness. “Every fight, I decide to choose a cause,” says Colbert in the two-and-a-half-minute feature. “This fight, I’m doing autism because I know a couple people that have it and I know it’s a big thing, so I decided to do it.” The video feature will air on tonight’s SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® telecast that also features another unbeaten young phenom as Gary Antuanne Russell, a 2016 U.S. Olympian, faces Ukraine’s former world champion Viktor Postol in a 10-round super lightweight bout, while IBF Junior Bantamweight World Champion Jerwin Ancajas defends his title against unbeaten Argentine Fernando Martinez in the televised opener. Veteran sportscaster Brian Custer will host the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast while versatile combat sports voice Mauro Ranallo will handle blow-by-blow action alongside Hall of Fame analyst Al Bernstein and three-division world champion Abner Mares. Three Hall of Famers round out the SHOWTIME telecast team – Emmy® Award-winning reporter Jim Gray, unofficial scorer Steve Farhood and world-renowned ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. The executive producer is four-time Emmy award winner David Dinkins, Jr. Saturday’s telecast is produced by Ray Smaltz III and the director is Bob Dunphy, son of legendary Hall of Famer Don Dunphy. Former junior middleweight world champion Raúl “El Diamante” Marquez and sportscaster Alejandro Luna serve as expert analysts in Spanish on Secondary Audio Programming (SAP). For more information visit www.SHO.com/sports, www.PremierBoxingChampions.com, follow #ColbertGarcia, follow on Twitter @ShowtimeBoxing, @PremierBoxing and @TGBPromotions on Instagram @ShowtimeBoxing, @PremierBoxing and @TGBPromotions or become a fan on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ShowtimeBoxing  |
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