“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 ...
HBO was never the only home of big time boxing. They did a hell of a job branding it that way. In 1986, Showtime secured the rights to Marvin Hagler-John Mugabi to make themselves a player and, for ...
It was also a venue where you could appreciate top-class presentations from a dizzying array of speakers, and few were as impressive as Peter Nelson, vice president of HBO Sport. Nelson went far ...
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, ...
HBO and boxing have been synonymous for nearly half a century, but that is coming to an end. The "network of champions," which called itself the "Heart and Soul of Boxing" and "built legends one round ...
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 ...
Jim Lampley is entering the ring again. His ring - a place the award-winning announcer called home for more than 30 years until HBO Boxing turned off the lights in 2018. The Emmy winner, 76, is ...