NEW YORK, April 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM
announced today that it will begin broadcasting Premier Boxing
Champions fights to satellite radio listeners nationwide, bringing
the sport back to the national radio airwaves.
Introduced in January of this year, Premier Boxing Champions is
a new series - created by Haymon Boxing - that features many of
boxing's best and brightest stars and champions.
SiriusXM's first broadcast will be the April 11 Garcia-Peterson/Lee-Quillin fight card
at Barclays Center in Brooklyn,
NY. Airing on SiriusXM Sports Zone, channel 92 (8:00 pm ET), the big night of boxing features a
clash of champions Danny Garcia
(29-0, 17 KOs) and Lamont Peterson
(33-2-1, 17 KOs), and the co-main event is champion Andy Lee (34-2, 24 KOs) against former champion
Peter Quillin (31-0, 22 KOs).
PBC on SiriusXM broadcasts will be produced by
SiriusXM. The broadcast team for the April 11 card will feature former New York
Athletic Commission Chairman and former Editor-in-Chief of The
Ring Magazine Randy
Gordon as the blow-by-blow voice and former heavyweight
contender Gerry Cooney as the
analyst. Sway Calloway, host of Sway in the
Morning on Eminem's Shade 45 channel, will be the ringside
reporter.
SiriusXM will broadcast more than 10 Premier Boxing Champions
events in 2015. Future broadcasts will be announced at a
later date.
"So many of the great moments in boxing history were experienced
by fight fans through their radios. We'll deliver that
experience again on SiriusXM by bringing the sounds and excitement
from ringside into those fans' cars, homes and phones," said
Steve Cohen, SiriusXM's SVP of
Sports Programming. "This is a very exciting time for
boxing. The creation of the Premier Boxing Champions series
and the buzz around big fights and new stars has sports fans as
enthusiastic as ever about the sport. We look forward to
building on that resurgence by offering live broadcasts of these
terrific events to listeners nationwide."
In addition to PBC on SiriusXM broadcasts, fight fans can
tune in to exclusive boxing talk shows on SiriusXM Sports Zone,
channel 92. Randy Gordon and
Gerry Cooney host At the
Fights every Monday and Friday at 6:00
pm ET. Going the Distance, hosted by renowned
trainer Teddy Atlas, Wallace Matthews and Nabate Isles airs every
Tuesday at 6:00 pm ET.
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