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HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports television series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades.

WCB's first event was fought in Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the Capital and largest city of Jamaica and is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural harbor protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit which connects Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island....
, where George Foreman
George Foreman

George Edward Foreman is an United States two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, and entrepreneur.He is the oldest man ever to win a major heavyweight title when, at 45, he knocked out 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round....
 defeated Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier

Joseph William Frazier, known as Smokin' Joe, is a former Olympic and World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, active mostly from the later 1960s to the mid 1970s....
 in two rounds to win the world heavyweight championship.

HBO World Championship Boxing will premiere live on HBO Canada beginning January 24, 2009 at 10 p.m.






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HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports television series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades.

WCB's first event was fought in Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the Capital and largest city of Jamaica and is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural harbor protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit which connects Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island....
, where George Foreman
George Foreman

George Edward Foreman is an United States two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, and entrepreneur.He is the oldest man ever to win a major heavyweight title when, at 45, he knocked out 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round....
 defeated Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier

Joseph William Frazier, known as Smokin' Joe, is a former Olympic and World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, active mostly from the later 1960s to the mid 1970s....
 in two rounds to win the world heavyweight championship.

HBO World Championship Boxing will premiere live on HBO Canada beginning January 24, 2009 at 10 p.m. ET/8 p.m. MT

Memorable events

Some other boxing events covered in the series include:
  • The Rumble in the Jungle
    The Rumble in the Jungle

    The Rumble in The Jungle was an historic boxing event that took place on 30 October 1974, in the Stade Tata Rapha?l in Kinshasa, Zaire . It pitted then world Heavyweight champion George Foreman against former world champion and challenger Muhammad Ali....
    , in which Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali

    Muhammad Ali is a retired United States boxing and former three-time List of heavyweight boxing champions.As an amateur, Ali won a gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in the light heavyweight division gold medal....
     beat Foreman in Kinshasa
    Kinshasa

    Kinshasa is the Capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is also known as Congo Kinshasa. The city is located on the Congo River....
    , Zaire
    Zaire

    The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971, and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo language word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers", and is often still used to refer to that state, perhaps because "Zai...
  • Thrilla In Manila
    Thrilla in Manila

    The Thrilla in Manila is the third and final famous boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier for the Heavyweight Boxing Championship of the World, fought at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on October 1, 1975....
    , when Ali beat Frazier in their third and last fight
  • Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney
    Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney

    Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney was a boxing fight that took place on June 11, 1982. It was one of the most highly anticipated fights of the early 1980s, if not of all of boxing's history....
    , for the World Boxing Council
    World Boxing Council

    The World Boxing Council was initially created by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo L?pez Mateos, to create an international boxi...
     heavyweight championship
  • The Battle of The Champions
    The Battle of the Champions

    The Battle of the Champions, was a term used by promoter Bob Arum regarding the November 12 1982 boxing match between Aaron Pryor and Alexis Arguello....
    , when Aaron Pryor
    Aaron Pryor

    Aaron Pryor is a former boxing from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the former world Junior Welterweight champion....
     beat Alexis Arguello in their first fight
  • Carnival of Champions
    Carnival of Champions

    The Carnival Of Champions, as Don King nicknamed it, was an important boxing event held in New Orleans's Superdome on December 3, 1982.The event had caught the international attention of boxing fans world-wide, but particularly in the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico, because the two main events that night featured two Puerto Rico, on...
    , in which Wilfredo Gómez
    Wilfredo Gómez

    Wilfredo G?mez is a former boxing and three time world champion. Nicknamed "Bazooka", G?mez had one of the highest knockout win percentages in professional boxing, winning 88 percent of his bouts by knockout....
     beat Lupe Pintor
    Lupe Pintor

    Jose Guadalupe Pintor Guzman , better known as Lupe Pintor, is a former World Boxing Champion from Cuajimalpa, Mexico. Nicknamed El Indio De Cuajimalpa or The Indian From Cuajimalpa, he started boxing professionally in 1974....
    , and Thomas Hearns
    Thomas Hearns

    Thomas "Hitman" Hearns , is an United States 8-time world champion professional boxing.Hearns became the first ever quadruple world champion in boxing history....
     beat Wilfredo Benitez
  • Marvin Hagler
    Marvin Hagler

    Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former United States boxing. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest middleweights of all time and finished his career with a record of 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts....
    - Thomas Hearns
    Thomas Hearns

    Thomas "Hitman" Hearns , is an United States 8-time world champion professional boxing.Hearns became the first ever quadruple world champion in boxing history....
     fight, billed as The War
    The War (boxing)

    The War was the nickname given by promoter Bob Arum to boxing's world middleweight championship superfight bout between Undisputed Champion Marvin Hagler and challenger Thomas Hearns, who was himself the world's junior middleweight champion....
  • Thunder Meets Lightning
    Thunder Meets Lightning

    The boxing world championship fight held on March 17, 1990 between World Boxing Council Jr Welterweight world champion Julio C?sar Ch?vez of Mexico and International Boxing Federation world champion Meldrick Taylor of the United States in Las Vegas, Nevada was a historic boxing match....
    , in which Julio César Chávez
    Julio César Chávez

    Julio C?sar Ch?vez Gonz?lez is a legendary Mexico professional boxing....
     beat Meldrick Taylor
    Meldrick Taylor

    Meldrick Taylor is a former Olympic gold medalist and world boxing champion in two weight classes....
     with five seconds remaining in the twelfth round;
  • The biggest upset in heavyweight boxing history, when James Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson
    Mike Tyson

    Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson, also known as Malik Abdul, is a retired United States Boxing. He was the List of undisputed boxing champions#Heavyweight and remains the youngest man ever to win a world heavyweight title at just 20 years old....
     for the undisputed world heavyweight title in Tokyo, Japan
  • The World Awaits- Floyd Mayweather, Jr. beat Oscar De La Hoya
    Oscar de la Hoya

    Oscar De La Hoya — nicknamed "The Golden Boy" — is an United States boxing and promoter who won a List of Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics....
     for the WBC light-middleweight title.
  • "Undefeated" - Floyd Mayweather, Jr. beat Ricky Hatton
    Ricky Hatton

    Richard John Hatton Order of the British Empire, more commonly known as Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton, , is a United Kingdom professional boxing is a two-time International Boxing Federation and International Boxing Organisation light welterweight champion, having relinquished the IBF belt, only to step back down to the weight class and bea...
     to retain the WBC welterweight title with a knockout in the 10th Round.
World Championship Boxing has also had two spin-off series, Boxing After Dark
Boxing After Dark

Boxing After Dark is an HBO boxing program, premiering in April 1996 in television, that usually shows fights between well-known contenders, but usually not "championship" or "title" fights....
 and KO Nation
KO Nation

KO Nation was a short-lived television series which featured up-and-coming boxers in a hip-hop format. Shown on HBO on Saturday afternoons throughout 2000 in television and 2001 in television, the show featured dancers and hip-hop performances, and was hosted by Fran Charles and Kevin Kelley....
.

Additionally, a video game carrying the brand name HBO Boxing was produced for the Sony PlayStation
PlayStation

The PlayStation is a 32-bit history of video game consoles video game console released by Sony Computer Entertainment in December .The PlayStation was the first of the ubiquitous PlayStation ....
.

Commentators past and present

  • Emanuel Steward
    Emanuel Steward

    Emanuel Steward is a boxing trainer, commentator and inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame....
     (current
    Current

    Current may refer to:* Current affairs* Electric current* Current ** Ocean current* Current , geometrical current in differential topology...
    )
  • Barry Tompkins
    Barry Tompkins

    Barry Tompkins is a well known United States sportscaster. He is better known for his work as a boxing commentator, but he has covered American football and another number of sports as well....
  • Fran Charles
    Fran Charles

    Fran Charles is a substitute studio host for Rich Eisen on the show, NFL Total Access on the NFL Network and former "blow-by-blow" announcer for HBO's Boxing After Dark series....
  • George Foreman
    George Foreman

    George Edward Foreman is an United States two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, and entrepreneur.He is the oldest man ever to win a major heavyweight title when, at 45, he knocked out 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round....
  • Gil Clancy
    Gil Clancy

    Gil Clancy was born on May 30th, 1922. Clancy is a Hall of Fame boxing trainer and one of the most noted boxing commentators of the 1980s and 1990s....
  • Harold Lederman
    Harold Lederman

    Harold Lederman is a celebrated boxing judge and analyst. He began his career as a boxing judge in 1967 and joined the cast of HBO World Championship Boxing in 1986, where he has been ever since....
     (current)
  • Howard Cosell
    Howard Cosell

    Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist....
  • Jim Lampley
    Jim Lampley

    Jim Lampley is an American sportscaster, news anchor, movie producer, and restaurant owner. He has been in several television shows, but is better known for his participation in the HBO Boxing series ....
     (current)
  • Larry Merchant
    Larry Merchant

    Larry Merchant is an American former sportswriter, a longtime commentator for HBO Sports presentations of HBO World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO pay-per-view telecasts, and is considered "the greatest television boxing analyst of all time" by ESPN Boxing analyst Dan Rafael....
     (current)
  • Lennox Lewis
    Lennox Lewis

    Lennox Claudius Lewis, Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire is a retired boxing who won gold for Canada at the Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur boxing....
     (current; substitute for Steward)
  • Max Kellerman
    Max Kellerman

    Max Kellerman is an United States boxing commentator and sports radio host based in New York City. He currently appears as a color commentator on HBO World Championship Boxing and HBO Boxing After Dark, as well as hosting a daily radio show on WEPN in New York....
     (current; substitute for Merchant)
  • Roy Jones, Jr.
  • Sugar Ray Leonard
    Sugar Ray Leonard

    Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
  • Al Michaels
    Al Michaels

    Alan Richard "Al" Michaels is an United States television sportscaster. Now employed by NBC Sports after nearly three decades with ABC Sports, Michaels is one of the most prominent members of his profession....


For pay-per-view fights, Bob Costas
Bob Costas

Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costas is a sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s....
 and James Brown
James Brown (TV personality)

James Brown , commonly called "J.B.", is an United States of America sports announcer known for being the host of the Fox Broadcasting Company's National Football League Pre-game show FOX NFL Sunday....
 have been called in on occasion to oversee the telecast while Lampley calls the fight.

See also

  • Boxing After Dark
    Boxing After Dark

    Boxing After Dark is an HBO boxing program, premiering in April 1996 in television, that usually shows fights between well-known contenders, but usually not "championship" or "title" fights....
     (a television boxing program airing on HBO from 1996-present)
  • KO Nation
    KO Nation

    KO Nation was a short-lived television series which featured up-and-coming boxers in a hip-hop format. Shown on HBO on Saturday afternoons throughout 2000 in television and 2001 in television, the show featured dancers and hip-hop performances, and was hosted by Fran Charles and Kevin Kelley....
     (a short-lived television boxing program that aired on HBO from 2000-01)
  • Showtime Championship Boxing
    Showtime Championship Boxing

    Showtime Championship Boxing is a television boxing program airing on Showtime. Debuting in March 1986, it is broadcast live on the first Saturday of every month....
     (a television boxing program airing on Showtime
    Showtime

    Showtime is a Pay TV brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States....
     from 1986-present)
  • ShoBox: The New Generation
    ShoBox: The New Generation

    ShoBox: The New Generation is a boxing television program, on Showtime. Debuting in 2001, it focuses mainly on up-and-coming boxing prospects....
     (a television boxing program airing on Showtime from 2001-present)


External links

  • (HBO's Boxing website, updated weekly)