Jim Lampley is pulling no punches as he gets ready to make his ringside comeback. The 76-year-old broadcasting legend is adamant, like most boxing purists, that HBO made a big mistake in abandoning ...

“Our mission at HBO Sports is to elevate the brand. We look for television projects that are high-profile, high-access, and highly ambitious in the stories they seek to tell and the quality of ...

Peter Nelson, the head of HBO Sports, denies the circulating claims that declining ratings and bad matchups were determining factors behind the network's decision to drop boxing after 45 years of ...

International Boxing Hall of Famer Jim Lampley is undoubtedly the voice of boxing. With detailed commentary underlined with slivers of empathy, turning boxing into a larger human narrative, Lampley ...

Larry Merchant often described boxing as “the theater of the unexpected.” When he was center stage, working with Jim Lampley and George Foreman on HBO Sports’ World Championship Boxing, the three ...

Richard Plepler, the co-president of HBO, has continued to keep a close watch over the network's boxing operation even after the hiring of Ken Hershman in October as president of HBO Sports. On ...

HBO Sports is reporting that the May 5 junior middleweight title fight between Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas sold 1.5 million pay-per-view buys and ...

After 45 years as the broadcaster for most of the biggest fights in boxing, as the platform that created modern pay-per-view and as the launching pad for most of the sport's biggest stars for decades, ...

Brothers Jake Paul and Logan Paul made social media announcements Tuesday that suggested their next fight will be against each other and aired on HBO Max. Calling it the “moment you've waited a decade ...

MMAKO's Zain Bando returns to the proverbial newsdesk to kickoff the first full week in July with all of the latest headlines in combat sports. Although there wasn't a UFC event to look forward to ...

HBO has passed on Mike Tyson's drama pilot Da Brick. The cable network has opted not to go forward with the project, according to Deadline. Based loosely on Tyson's own life, Da Brick was directed by ...