Boxing on ABC
| Boxing on ABC | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | ABC Sports Pro Boxing |
| Genre | Professional boxingbouts |
| Starring | |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | Various |
| Production company | ABC Sports |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | November 11, 1964– June 17, 2000 |
| Related | |
| Wide World of Sports Boxing on ESPN | |
Boxing on ABCrefers to a series ofboxingevents[1]that have been televised on theAmerican Broadcasting Company.Many of these events aired under theWide World of Sports[2]banner which began on April 11, 1964 when challengerMuhammad Ali,then known as Cassius Clay,defeatedchampionSonny Listonin the seventh round. ABC's final boxing card occurred on June 17, 2000.[3][4]
History[edit]
Tomorrow's Boxing Champions(1949–1950)[edit]
The first incarnation of boxing telecasts on ABC wasTomorrow's Boxing Champions,which aired on Tuesday nights beginning in January 1949. Originating fromChicago,the program featured young, unranked fighters.Bob Elsondid the blow-by-blow commentary. The series concluded in September 1950.
Meet the Champ(1952)[edit]
In January 1952, ABC premieredMeet the Champ,which was a collection of bouts involving members of thearmed forces.The program aired on Thursday nights, with Wally Butterfield announcing.
Saturday Night Fights(1953–1955)[edit]
In 1953,Ray Arcel[5]began promoting bouts on ABC. Unfortunately, shortly after arranging the fights for ABC,[6]Arcel[7]ran afoul of organized crime. The matches on ABC competed with other network television fights run by theInternational Boxing Club[8](IBC), who were reputed to have underworld ties.
Bill Sterndid blow-by-blow commentary whenSaturday Night Fightspremiered. Come the fall, Jack Gregson took over from Stern.
Boxing from Ridgewood GroveandMotor City Boxing(1953)[edit]
In February 1953, ABC premieredBoxing from Ridgewood Grove.It aired on Tuesdays nights, with Jason Owen as the announcer in the first month and Bob Finnegan taking over until its cancellation in August. In March 1953, ABC broughtMotor City BoxingfromDetroit.The program would air for three months of Thursdays, withDon Wattrickat the providing commentary.
Boxing from Eastern Parkway(1954)[edit]
In May 1954,Boxing from Eastern Parkwaymoved from theDuMont Television Networkto ABC. Tommy Logran handled the blow-by-blow commentary while occasionally being helped by Bob Finnegan and Fred Sayles. The series ended when ABC failed to renew its contract with the arena after picking up the rights to show fights at theInternational Boxing Club.[9][10]
The Wednesday Night Fights(1955–1960)[edit]
After cancellation ofPabst Blue Ribbon Boutson CBS in 1955, the series was picked up by ABC, renamedThe Wednesday Night Fights,[11][12]and continued until 1960.
Russ HodgesandJack Dreesboth stayed with the show when it transferred from CBS. Hodges however, left in October 1955 and Drees was the only regular announcer for the five years it stayed on ABC.
Fight of the Week(1960–1963)[edit]
AfterNBC-TV's cancellation ofThe Gillette Cavalcade of Sportsin the spring of1960,ABC took over theprime timeboxing program, although it was renamedFight of the Week.Legendary boxing commentatorDon Dunphydid the blow-by-blow description of the bouts, which took place on Saturday beginning in October 1960 and running through September 1963.
From there, the series moved to Friday nights, where it continued until ABC finally canceled prime time boxing after the bout of September 11, 1964, permanently ending 18 years of regularly scheduled prime time boxing onU.S.broadcast network television. One reason for the downturn of televised boxing occurred onFight of the Week'sthe March 24, 1962 broadcast,whenEmile GriffithdefeatedBenny "The Kid" Paretfor the Welterweight Championship atNew York'sMadison Square Garden.Paret was carried from the ring unconscious, and died several days later as a result of his injuries that he had sustained in that bout.
Wide World of Sports(1964–2000)[edit]
Prior to the advent ofWide World of Sports,many majorheavyweight boxing titlematches were televised via "closed-circuit"(this generally meant that you had go to a movie theater to see it, pay a decent-sized amount of money to get it, and then watch it on a giant screen). Often,Wide World of Sportswould show full-length replays of the fights a week or two later; these replays were usually called byHoward Cosell,who became one of the best-known (and possibly most controversial) sportscaster in American television history.
Still rebuilding a winning record after his first professional loss toJoe Frazier,Muhammad AlifacedKen Nortonon March 31, 1973, at theSports Arena,San Diego,California.The fight was aired live on free TV in the United States via ABC.
Jerry Quarryretired for over two and a half years after his 1975 fight with Ken Norton fight. At around this time, Quarry signed a contract with ABC to be a boxing commentator. Quarry was very popular in this position, drawing the ire of Howard Cosell, who was being pushed out of some commentary work by Quarry. In mid-1977, a return match was being put together which would put Quarry in against a ranked heavyweight. The ranked heavyweight would be Italian Lorenzo Zanon. The match was to be televised on ABC, where Quarry was contracted. But both fighters signed to have the bout televised onCBS.When Quarry, who often negotiated his own fight contracts, signed the bout to CBS, he lost his ABC contract.
In 1976, ABC made a deal with promoterDon KingandThe Ringmagazineto stage a tournament[13]to determine the best fighter from the U.S. in each weight division. The tournament, dubbed the United States Boxing Championships was scheduled to begin on January 16, 1977 with ABC agreeing to finance the tournament with an investment of between $1.5 million and $2 million.[14]Soon however, it determined that King was essentially using the tournament to sign the best fighters to exclusive contracts. To make matters worse,The Ringwas falsifying records and inflating rankings as a means of getting a number of fighters into the tournament for King.
Sugar Ray Leonard's bout withWilfred Benítezon November 30, 1979[15]marked the first time in the era of big-money sports events that a non-heavyweight fight would be carried as the main event onprime timetelevision.[16][17]
On November 15, 1984, ABC broadcast 'A Night of Gold', a card from promoterDan Duva's 'Main Events',[18]featuring no less than four gold medal winners (Mark Breland,Tyrell Biggs,Pernell WhitakerandMeldrick Taylor[19]) from that year'sSummer Olympic games,as well as those lagging behind in the runners-up spots.
In 1992, ABC announced plans to counterprogram[20]theWinter OlympicsonCBSwith boxing, a sport at that point, seldom seen on network television. This particular boxing series was sponsored byFruit of the Loom.[21][22]ABC proceeded to forgo the typical$300,000 rights fees of the prior year, and instead, set a $75,000 limit and scheduled three consecutive Saturdays of action.[23]
Notable bouts[edit]
| Year | Day | Event |
| 1964 | April 11 | ChallengerCassius Clay,soon to adopt theMuslimnameof Muhammad Ali, knocks out championSonny Listonin theseventh roundinMiami Beach, Florida. |
| May 30 | U.S. Olympic Boxing Trials.[24] | |
| 1965 | May 29 | TherematchbetweenMuhammad AliandSonny ListonfromLewiston, Maine. |
| 1966 | April 2 | Muhammad AlidefeatsGeorge Chuvaloin a 15-round decision to retain hisWorld Heavyweight ChampionshipinToronto, Ontario,Canada. |
| May 21 | Muhammad Aliretains hisWorld Heavyweight Championshiptitle with a sixth-roundTKOofHenry CooperinLondon. | |
| September 10 | Muhammad AlidefeatsKarl Mildenberger[25]in aheavyweight titledefense, live fromFrankfurt,West Germanywith a 12th-round TKO. | |
| November 26 | Muhammad Alidefends hisworld heavyweight titlefor the sixth time in 1966 onWide World of SportsagainstCleveland Williams. | |
| 1967 | February 11 | Muhammad Alidefends hisWorld Heavyweight ChampionshipagainstErnie TerrellinHouston,Texas. |
| March 11 | Interview withMuhammad AliandWilt Chamberlain. | |
| 1970 | February 21 | Joe Frazierknocks outJimmy Ellisin the fifth round for the vacantWorld Heavyweight Championshipfrom New York City. |
| October 31 | InAtlanta,Muhammad AlidefeatsJerry Quarryin the third round, in his first fight in three years. | |
| November 21 | Joe Frazierknocks outBob Fosterin the second round of theirWorld Heavyweight Championshipfight inDetroit. | |
| 1971 | March 13 | Analysis of theWorld Heavyweight ChampionshipfightbetweenMuhammad AliandJoe Frazierwith Muhammad Ali. |
| 1972 | September 23 | Muhammad Aliends the career of formerworld heavyweight championFloyd Pattersonwith a seventh-round knockout in New York City. |
| November 25 | Muhammad Ali-Bob Fosterfight. | |
| 1973 | January 27 | World Heavyweight Championshipfight betweenJoe FrazierandGeorge ForemanfromKingston, Jamaica. |
| March 31 | Ken Nortonwins a 12-round decision againstMuhammad Aliin their heavyweight fight fromSan Diego,California. | |
| September 15 | Muhammad Aliwins his rematch withKen Nortonrematch in 12 rounds. | |
| 1974 | January 26 | Muhammad AliandJoe Frazierscuffle[26][27][28]during the telecast as they watch tape of theirfirst fightin 1971. |
| March 2 | Muhammad AlidefeatsJoe Frazierin theirsecond fightin New York City. | |
| March 16 | Roberto Duránknocks outEsteban De Jesús[29]in the 11th round to retain hisWorld Lightweight championshipfromPanama City,Panama. | |
| March 31 | George Foremanscores a second-round TKO ofKen Nortonin aWorld Heavyweight Championshipfight. | |
| September 21 | Wide World of Sportsreturns toHavana,Cubafor theWorld Boxing Championships,which featuredTeófilo Stevenson. | |
| 1975 | January 5 | Muhammad Aliknocks outGeorge Foremanin theeighth roundto reclaim theWorld Heavyweighttitle fromKinshasa,Zaire. |
| March 29 | Muhammad Aliscores a 15th-round TKO ofChuck Wepnerin theirWorld Heavyweight Championshipfight. | |
| July 26 | Coverage of theNorth American Continental Boxing Championships.[30] | |
| September 13 | World Heavyweight Championshipfight betweenMuhammad AliandJoe BugnerfromKuala Lampur,Malaysia. | |
| 1976[31] | January 11 | Wide World of Sportstelecasts tape ofMuhammad AlidefeatingJoe Frazierin the "Thriller in Manilla"heavyweight title fight. |
| October 2 | ExclusiveSports Illustratedstill photographs of the Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton heavyweight fight and interviews withKen Norton,Joe FrazierandGeorge Foreman. | |
| 1977 | January 2 | Interview withMuhammad Ali. |
| May 14 | Sugar Ray LeonarddefeatsWillie Rodriguez[32]in the second fight of his professional career. | |
| 1978 | February 12 | USA-CubaAmateur boxingmarks the first live telecast fromCubasinceCastrocame to power in 1959. |
| 1979 | February 4 | Alexis ArgüelloandAlfredo Escalera[33]for theWBC Super Featherweighttitle. Arguello retained his title with a 13th-round knockout. |
| 1980 | July 19 | Sugar Ray LeonardandRoberto Durán[34]fight for theWBCWelterweight Championship. |
| September 27 | In his second bid for theWBA/WBCMiddleweight championship,Marvelous Marvin Haglerscores a third-round TKO ofAlan Minter[35]in a fight marred by a crowd riot. | |
| 1981 | September 5 | Salvador Sánchezretains hisWBCFeatherweight Championshipwith a victory overWilfredo Gómez. |
| October 17 | Sugar Ray Leonardscores a 14th-round TKO ofThomas Hearnsin aWBC/WBAWelterweight Championshipfight. | |
| 1982 | November 27 | Teófilo StevensonfightsTyrell Biggs[36]fromReno, Nev. |
| December 11 | Bazooka Limónloses hisWBCSuper Featherweight ChampionshiptoBobby Chaconin a 15-round decision, whileWilfredo Gómezretained his WBCSuper Bantamweight titleagainstLupe Pinto. | |
| 1984 | February 18 | The USA-Cuba amateur boxing matches[37]fromReno. |
| 1985 | January 5 | Live coverage ofMark Breland's second professional fight againstMarlon PalmerinAtlantic City, N.J. |
| January 20 | Second professional fights ofPernell Whitaker(vs.Danny Avery[38]),Evander Holyfield(vs.Eric Winbush[39]) andMeldrick Taylor(vs.Dwight Pratchett[40]), live, fromAtlantic City. | |
| April 20 | The second professional fight of Olympic gold medalistTyrell Biggs. | |
| June 8 | Barry McGuigandefeatsEusebio Pedrozato claim theWBAWelterweight titlein London. | |
| September 28 | Barry McGuigandefends hisWBAWelterweight titleagainstBernard TaylorinBelfast,Northern Ireland. | |
| 1986 | February 15 | Barry McGuigandefends hisWBAWelterweight titleagainstDanilo CabreirainDublin,Ireland. |
| March 29 | In a delayed broadcast,"Marvelous" Marvin Haglerknocks outJohn "The Beast" Mugabiin the 11th-round of theirWorld Middleweight Championship. | |
| July 12 | Evander Holyfieldwins his first world title with a 15-round decision againstDwight Qawi[41]for theWBAJunior Heavyweightcrown live fromAtlanta. | |
| July 26 | Mike TysondestroysMarvis Frazier[42]with a first-round knockout in their live heavyweight fight fromGlens Falls, N.Y.In the same show,Barry McGuiganloses hisWBAWelterweightcrown in a 15-round decision toSteve CruzinLas Vegas. | |
| 1989 | March 4 | Virgil Hill-Bobby Czyz[43]fight for theWBALight Heavyweight ChampionshipinBismarck, North Dakota. |
| April 1 | Evander Holyfield-Michael Dokesheavyweight fight and a live studio interview with Holyfield. | |
| June 24 | Dennis Andries[44]-Jeff Hardingfor theWBCLight Heavyweight titles. | |
| 1990 | March 31 | Meldrick TaylorfightsJulio César Chávezfor theWBC/IBFJunior Welterweight/Super Lightweighttitles. |
| 1991 | March 2 | Riddick BoweversusTyrell Biggs.[45][46] |
| June 1 | Mike Tysonscores aTKOofRazor Ruddock[47]in a heavyweight fight, taped on March 18. | |
| 1992 | February 1 | A special report onMike Tyson's trial and conviction of rape. |
| 1993 | March 6 | Riddick Boweknocks outEvander Holyfieldin the 11th-round of their fight fromLas Vegas. |
| 1995[48] | July 22 | Mike Tysonretrospective: one month before his return to the ring. |
| 1997 | April 19 | Wide Worldairs network television's first women's professional boxing match. Former kickboxerYvonne Trevinowins theWIBFSuperflyweight championship live fromLas Vegasin a first-round TKO overBrenda Rouse. |
| 2000 | June 17 | José Luis CastilloupsetsStevie Johnstonin the lightweight championship bout inBell Gardens, California.[49] |
Commentators[edit]
- Don Chevrier[50]
- Dan Dierdorf- In April 1987, Dierdorf was hired byABCto joinAl MichaelsandFrank GiffordonMonday Night Footballbroadcasts.[51]He spent 12 seasons onMonday Night Footballbefore resigning the post in early 1999.[52]During his affiliation with ABC, Dierdorf also served as a blow-by-blowboxingcommentator in 1989, beginning withMeldrick Taylor's first defense of his championship, served as a correspondent for the network's coverage of the1988 Winter OlympicsinCalgary,and called play-by-play of someCollege Football on ABCgames in the early 1990s.
- Keith Jackson[53]- Though best known for his college football broadcasts, Jackson announced numerous other sports for ABC throughout his career, includingMajor League Baseball,NBA basketball,boxing,auto racing,PGA Tour golf,theUSFL,and theOlympic Games.Jackson was a regular part of ABC's popularWide World of Sports(WWOS), covering both popular sports and obscure events like wrist wrestling. He also handledWWOS'first coverage of boxerSugar Ray Leonardat the North American Continental Boxing Championships on July 26, 1975, who Jackson called a young boxer to watch.[54]
- Jim Lampley[55][56][57]- In 1974, while in graduate school, he was chosen along with Don Tollefson in whatABCcalled atalent hunt.ABC executives thought that Lampley's youthful looks would make him endearing to the college crowds they looked to attract for theircollege footballgames. At ABC, he covered such events asMajor League Baseballandcollege basketballgames, the1986and1987Indianapolis 500,the 1977Monon Bellgame betweenDePauw UniversityandWabash College,fiveOlympics,as well as the programWide World of Sports.
- Al Michaels[58][59]- Michaels initially joined ABC as the back-up announcer onMonday Night Baseballin 1976. The following year, he was promoted to the network on a full-time basis. He became the lead announcer, replacing Keith Jackson in 1983. Over the next three decades, Michaels covered a wide variety of sports for ABC, includingMajor League Baseball,college football,college basketball,ice hockey,track and field events,horse racing,golf,boxing[60](such as the 1985Marvin Hagler/Thomas Hearns fight),figure skating,road cycling,and many events of theOlympic Gamesas well as the Olympic trials.[61]
- Jerry Quarry[62]
- Chris Schenkel[63]-ABC Sportshired Schenkel in 1965, and there he broadcastcollege football,Major League Baseball,NBA basketball,golfandtennistournaments, boxing,auto racing,and the Summer and WinterOlympic Games.
- Al Trautwig
- Alex Wallau[64][65][66]- He worked primarily on ABC's boxing coverage with announcerHoward Cosell.In 1986, after Cosell's retirement, Wallau became ABC'sboxinganalyst. He was honored by theBoxing Writers Association of Americaas the top television boxing journalist in his first year.
Howard Cosell[edit]
Cosell rose to prominence in the early 1960s, covering boxerMuhammad Ali,beginning from the time he fought under hisbirth name,Cassius Clay. The two seemed to have an affinity despite their different personalities, and complemented each other in broadcasts. Cosell was one of the first sportscasters to refer to the boxer as Muhammad Ali after he changed his name, and supported him when he refused to be inducted into the military. Cosell called most of Ali's fights immediately before and after the boxer returned from his three-year exile in October 1970. Those fights were broadcast on taped delay usually a week after they were transmitted on closed circuit. However, Cosell did not call two of Ali's biggest fights, theRumble in the Junglein October 1974 and the firstAli–Joe Frazier boutin March 1971. PromoterJerry Perenchioselected actorBurt Lancaster,who had never provided color commentary for a fight, to work the bout with longtime announcerDon Dunphyand former light-heavyweight championArchie Moore.Cosell attended that fight as a spectator only. He would do a voiceover of that bout, when it was shown onABCa few days before the secondAli-Frazier boutin January 1974.
Perhaps his most famous call took place in thefightbetweenJoe FrazierandGeorge Foremanfor the World Heavyweight Championship inKingston, Jamaicain 1973. When Foreman knocked Frazier to the mat the first of six times, roughly two minutes into the first round, Cosell yelled out:
Down Goes Frazier! Down Goes Frazier! Down Goes Frazier!
His call of Frazier's first trip to the mat became one of the most quoted phrases in American sports broadcasting history. Foreman beat Frazier by a TKO in the second round to win theWorld Heavyweight Championship.
Cosell provided blow-by-blow commentary for ABC of some of boxing's biggest matches during the 1970s and the early 1980s, includingKen Norton's upset win over Ali in 1973 and Ali's defeat ofLeon Spinksin 1978 recapturing the Heavyweight title for the third time. His signaturetoupeewas unceremoniously knocked off in front of live ABC cameras when a scuffle broke out after a broadcast match betweenScott LeDouxand Johnny Boudreaux. Cosell quickly retrieved his hairpiece and replaced it. During interviews in studio with Ali, the champion would tease and threaten to remove the hairpiece with Cosell playing along but never allowing it to be touched. On one of these occasions, Ali quipped, "Cosell, you're a phony, and that thing on your head comes from the tail of a pony."[67]
With typical headline generating drama, Cosell abruptly ended his broadcast association with the sport of boxing while providing coverage for ABC for the heavyweight championship bout betweenLarry HolmesandRandall "Tex" Cobbon November 26, 1982.[68]Halfway through the bout and with Cobb absorbing a beating, Cosell stopped providing anything more than rudimentary comments about round number and the participants punctuated with occasional declarations of disgust during the 15 rounds. He declared shortly after the fight to a national television audience that he had broadcast his last professional boxing match.
In the1976 Summer Games in Montreal,and the1984 games in Los Angeles,Cosell was the main voice for boxing.Sugar Ray Leonardwon the gold medal in his light welterweight class at Montreal, beginning his meteoric rise to a world professional title a few years later, and Cosell became close to Leonard, during this period, announcing many of his fights.[69]
Cancelled 2007 card[edit]
Seven years after ABC's last boxing card, they were scheduled to broadcast a card fromBoardwalk HallinAtlantic City, New Jerseyon April 22, 2007. The card would've featured former light heavyweight championAntonio Tarverfacing off againstElvir Muriqi.Promoter Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing had been working on thetime buydeal (in other words, DeGuardia was not paid a licensing fee by ABC, but rather bought an hour of time from the network). The production would've been handled by ABC's sister company,ESPNwithFriday Night FightscommentatorsJoe TessitoreandTeddy Atlas.The bout was ultimately scrapped[70]amid rumors that Tarver would not be able to make the 175 pound weight limit.
Premier Boxing Champions(2015)[edit]
On March 19, 2015, ESPN announced thatFriday Night Fightswould air for the final time on May 22, 2015, covering the finals of the 2015 Boxcino tournament. The network announced that it had reached a multi-year deal withAl Haymon'sPremier Boxing Championsto broadcast 11 events per-year on the main ESPN network, primarily on Saturday nights, and an afternoon event onABC.Joe TessitoreandTeddy Atlaswere carried over to serve as hosts. ESPN is one of several major broadcasters that airs fights through the promotion, which also includesNBC,CBS,their respective cable sports networks, as well asSpike.[71]
See also[edit]
- ABC Wide World of Sports Boxing
- Boxing on the radio
- Olympics on ABC commentators#Summer Olympics
- The Super Fight- Debates subsequently took place over the next three decades as to whether at least one print of film had survived. It was cited that many theaters had continued to play the film long after January 20, 1970, and was also noted that the film had one airing onABC'sWide World of Sportsin 1970, and another onCBSlate night in 1977, with many more broadcasts alleged throughout.
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