Boxing Reality Show Hits Airwaves
107167
After preliminaries stuffed with enough lawsuits and trash-talk to make Don King proud, the first of TV's battling boxing series faced its opening round Tuesday.
577168
NEW YORK -- Evander Holyfield knows that life, like boxing, is about adjustments. On Saturday night, we will see whether he has made the biggest adjustment of his career -- the adjustment to a boxing life of diminished skills.
356916
Q I have been looking for a boxing/exercise program in the area (around Rockville, Bethesda, maybe Northwest D.C.). On TV I have seen "regular" people get in the ring and spar "gently" for fun and exercise, and I think my husband would love this. Do you know of any place in the area that offers t...
464456
ATHENS -- Andre Ward knows what he's going to be hearing this afternoon and he's looking forward to it. The light heavyweight will be the only boxer at Peristeri Boxing Hall booed for trying to win a gold medal. Anti-American sentiment has been on the rise at many of the Olympic venues, most noticeably track and field at Olympic Stadium ...
655922
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has emerged from almost complete disrepute to become perhaps the fastest-growing spectator sport in America.
176676
US TV network NBC has lost its first round fight to halt a rival reality TV series about boxing. Superior Court Judge Linda Lefkowitz turned down a request for a temporary restraining order against Fox&#39;s planned series with boxer Oscar de la Hoyer.
514428
A judge gave the second round to Fox in a legal fight over competing boxing reality shows.
218963
BOXING has long been starved of magic and stardust, at least since Lennox Lewis put an end to the myth of Mike Tyson two years ago.
765035
Winning a reality show is just the beginning. The real test is sustaining the interest of fans.
611835
By RITA SHERROW World Television Editor  The game show "1 vs 100" turns the "mob" on itself with the winner taking home $250,000 at 7 p.m. Friday on channel 2 and cable channel 9.
121523
An 'elite' sport tries to pump up participation by appealing to a workout-mad America.
468643
A judge's ruling Wednesday in a dispute between Fox's "The Next Great Champ" and a rival boxing TV show favored Fox. But round two is set for next month.
218188
A Californian judge has refused to deliver a knock-out punch to one of two boxing &quot;reality&quot; shows vying to be first on US television.
710718
tonight, the curtain goes up on one of the richest and most entertaining reality series ever conceived. That&#39;s not hyperbole, folks.
569405
Lifetime Television is ramping up its reality programming in a big way.
743959
The makers of rival boxing shows coming to U.S. television stepped into the legal ring on Tuesday as producers of NBC's "The Contender" sought a court order to block "The Next Great Champ" from debuting as planned next month on Fox.
560050
NEW YORK -- In the wee hours yesterday morning, promoter Don King stood at a podium inside Madison Square Garden and -- in the midst of a bombastic assault on his cable network partner, HBO, and his former fighter, Bernard Hopkins -- gave the best explanation for why a rematch between Hopkins, the undisputed middleweight champion, and former champion Felix ...