HBO Boxing: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

HBO Boxing is an American sports television series that premiered on 22 January 1973 and that has shown a number of significant boxing events since then. WCB's first event ever was fought in Kingston, Jamaica, where George Foreman defeated Joe Frazier in two rounds to win the world heavyweight championship. The main broadcast team is Jim Lampley on blow-by-blow, with former ESPN reporter Max Kellerman as color commentator, replacing Larry Merchant, who retired in December 2012. For the last two years of Merchant's contract he and Kellerman alternated telecasts.

Series details

• Title: HBO Boxing
• Format: Sports
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1973-01-22
• Final broadcast date listed: 2017-07-15
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: HBO
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 155 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.8/10
• TVMaze ID: 6866
• TVDB ID: 277097

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1973: premiered 1973-01-22; final listed air date 1973-12-14.
• Season 1974: premiered 1974-10-30; final listed air date 1974-10-30.
• Season 1975: premiered 1975-09-30; final listed air date 1975-09-30.
• Season 1976: premiered 1976-06-19; final listed air date 1976-06-19.
• Season 1977: premiered 1977-06-01; final listed air date 1977-06-01.
• Season 1981: premiered 1981-09-16; final listed air date 1981-09-16.
• Season 1983: premiered 1983-11-10; final listed air date 1983-11-10.
• Season 1985: premiered 1985-04-15; final listed air date 1985-04-15.
• Season 1987: premiered 1987-04-06; final listed air date 1987-04-06.
• Season 1989: premiered 1989-06-12; final listed air date 1989-12-07.
• Season 2002: premiered 2002-05-18; final listed air date 2002-10-23.
• Season 2003: premiered 2003-06-07; final listed air date 2003-06-07.
• Season 2014: premiered 2014-04-12; final listed air date 2014-06-07.
• Season 2015: premiered 2015-01-24; final listed air date 2015-12-19.
• Season 2016: premiered 2016-01-30; final listed air date 2016-12-17; episode order: 15.
• Season 2017: premiered 2017-01-28; final listed air date 2017-07-15; episode order: 15.

Source and licence

Adapted from HBO Boxing on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.