R. Thomas Umstead
21 articles · multichannel.com
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Hall of Fame Boxing Announcer Jim Lampley Chatting
Pay-per-view content aggregator In Demand’s PPV.com digital service will look to engage boxing fans with a exclusive live chat that will run during its distribution of Saturday’s Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia super lightweight…
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Fox Sports Takes Second Jab at PPV Boxing with Manny Pacquiao-Keith Thurman Event
Fox Sports continues its busy summer of televising live, marquee sports programming events this Saturday (July 20) as it steps into the pay-per-view boxing ring with the Manny Pacquiao-Keith Thurman welterweight championship…
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Fox Sports to Step Into Pay-Per-View
After a slow 2018, the pay-per-view boxing category is expected to come out swinging in 2019. Already two fights are positioned to vie for boxing fans? dollars in the first quarter of…
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Megafight Matchmakers Delivered a Knockout
In May of 2015, the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao boxing match generated a record 4.6 million pay-per-view buys ? nearly double the previous record of 2.4 million buys for 2007?s Mayweather-Oscar De La…
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Showtime?s Stephen Espinoza: Mayweather-McGregor Could Set PPV Records
The boxing match many sports fans fantasized about but never thought would happen is now a reality. Showtime PPV will distribute the Aug. 26 Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor boxing match, a unique matchup…
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Stephen Espinoza: ‘Open’ To MayPac Rematch
Showtime Sports recently announced it will telecast a big June 13 Deontay Wilder-Eric Molina heavyweight championship fight, but boxing fans are still talking about the mega May 2 Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao pay-per-view…
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Three Takeaways From MayPac’s PPV Pefrormance
As expected the May 2 Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight obliterated all pay-per-view event records, generating 4.4 million buys and more than $400 million in PPV revenue. While the fighters delivered a lackluster…
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Sparring Holds Up PPV Megafight Deal
The parties involved in negotiations for the proposed May 2 Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao pay-per-view boxing match have recently thrown more jabs and counter punches at each other, which could help KO the…
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Showtime’s Broner-Maidana Fight Draws 1.3 Million Viewers
Showtime?s Adrien Broner-Marcos Maidana live boxing telecast Saturday night drew 1.3 million viewers, the network announced Tuesday. The fight, in which Maidana (pictured right) upset the previously undefeated Broner in a unanimous…
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CNN To Carry HBO’s 24/7 Mayweather-Ortiz
HBO and Time Warner are starting their new boxing relationship early as CNN will air the pay TV service's 24/7 preview series for the Sept. 17 Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz fight. HBO and…
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After Slow Start, Boxing Promises Barnburners
After a very sluggish first half, the pay-per-view boxing category is set to explode this fall, with at least four scheduled marquee pay-per-view boxing cards that the industry hopes will deliver knockout…
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HBO PPV To Distribute September Mayweather Fight
HBO will distribute the Sept. 17 return to the boxing ring of undefeated fighter and mega pay-per-view draw Floyd Mayweather. Mayweather, who has not fought since May 2010, will fight World Boxing…
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HBO Tapping Social Networks For Mosley-Mayweather PPV Fight Promotion
HBO Sports is stepping into the social networking ring to promote its May 1 Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Shane Mosely pay-per-view boxing event. Among the marketing tactics the network is using to promote the…
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HBO, Top Rank Set November Pacquaio-Cotto PPV Fight
Current Pound-For-Pound boxing champion Manny Pacquiao will step into the pay-per-view boxing ring Nov. 14 to fight World Boxing Organization champion Miguel Cotto, Top Rank Inc. president Bob Arum announced Monday. Home…
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Boxing Hangs Tough On PPV With Rising Stars, Marketing Shift
When boxing champion Floyd ?Money? Mayweather postponed his July 18 fight with Juan Manuel Marquez due to a rib injury, he singlehandedly dealt a body blow to the pay-per-view boxing category. The…
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HBO Puts Marketing Muscle Behind Next ’24/7′ Fight Series
HBO hopes a multiplatform marketing and promotional campaign for a preview series leading up to its May 2 Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton pay-per-view boxing event will attract younger viewers to the sport. HBO's…
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Pacquiao-Hatton Could Be PPV Boxing?s Next Big Bout
Barely two weeks removed from his dominating performance over Oscar De La Hoya lightweight boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is already looking at his next big pay-per-view payday. Pacquiao is in talks with…
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Knockout for HBO PPV With De La Hoya-Pacquiao
HBO's Dec. 6 Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao fight on pay per view, in which the lightweight champion Pacuqiao battered the ?Golden Boy? into submission in the eighth round, drew 1.25 million…
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HBO Goes ?24/7? For De La Hoya-Pacquiao Bout
HBO Sports will ratchet up its reality franchise series 24/7 next month in support of its Dec. 6 Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao pay-per-view fight. The four-part series, De La Hoya/Pacquiao 24/7,…
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Cotto Outta De La Hoya Sweepstakes
Former welterweight champion Miguel Cotto lost more than his title Saturday night at the hands of Antonio Margarito. Cotto is effectively out of the Oscar De La Hoya opponent sweepstakes after losing…