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Showtime's Fight Camp 360: Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley

The Showtime pay per view televised, May 7 defense of his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt will by eight-division champion, Manny Pacquiao against three-division, five-time titlist Shane Mosley will be the subject of special editions of the network's Fight Camp 360, starting on April 2, the cable giant announced on...

Ricardo Mayorga to Miguel Cotto: 'I'm The Man, You're The Woman'

In a 2003, magazine article promoting his December, welterweight (147 pounds) unification bout against then-IBF king Cory Spinks, then-WBA and WBC titlist Ricardo Mayorga detailed how he prays that his punches never result in a death. Yet during an October news conference prior to facing Spinks, Mayorga vowed to send...

Andre Dirrell Out of Super Six With 'Neurologial Problem'

Flint, Mich., super middleweight (168 pounds) contender Andre Dirrell has withdrawn from his scheduled Nov. 27 title bout against WBA king Andre Ward, of Oakland, Calif., as well as from the tournament in general with what his promoter, Gary Shaw, told FanHouse was a "neurological problem." Initially Dirrell's exit was...

Showtime Bantamweight Tournament Announced

After battling Colombian-born IBF bantamweight (118 pounds) champion Yonnhy Perez, of Santa Fe Springs, Calif, to May's Showtime-televised majority draw at The Staples' Center in Los Angeles, a verdict that allowed Perez to retain his crown, Mexican-born Abner Mares (pictured above) of Montebello, Calif., was somewhat...

Glen Johnson Replaces Mikkel Kessler in Super Six

Jamaican-born, 41-year-old former world champion Glen Johnson of Miami will replace former WBC champion, Mikkel Kessler, of Denmark as Allan Green's opponent in Showtime's Super Six World Super Middleweight (168 pounds) Classic in a Nov. 6 bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Showtime Sports Executive President and...

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10/14/11 UFC's Market Dominance An Overwhelming Deterrent to... Source: Bloody Elbow On Thursday, Ken Hershman, executive vice president and general manager of sports and event programming for Showtime, resigned after a nineteen years with the subscription-based network.