NBC Sports Group and Ring City USA announced a partnership to televise a series of boxing matches on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) through 2021. The partnership, which consists of a series of two-hour match slates on Thursday evenings at 9 p.m. ET on NBCSN. Three shows are booked for 2020: the series debuts on Nov. 19th, then reurns on Dec. 3rd and Dec. 17th, with 14 matches to be scheduled throughout 2021. The fights will take place at Freddie Roach’s legendary Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles.  

 

“We’re excited to partner with Ring City USA to bring boxing back to NBC Sports and add a new chapter to our rich boxing history,” said Gary Quinn, Vice President, Programming & Owned Properties, NBC Sports. 

 

“We are excited to bring boxing back to NBC Sports,” said Frank Samuel, CEO of Ring City USA.  “This partnership will deliver exciting, highly competitive fights and become a day-in, day-out source of top-notch, unbiased content for fight fans around the world."

 

RING CITY MISSION STATEMENT: Ring City is boxing’s newest sports media platform. Working in tandem with a variety of promoters and talent, its new boxing series places an emphasis on competitive match-ups that genuinely test the fighters and excite the fight fans. Ring City provides great fights in the ring and compelling shoulder programming outside of the ring. Ring City is the proving ground where up-and-coming talent can earn their stripes and launch themselves into the upper echelon of boxing stardom. 

 

NBC Sports has brought boxing to millions of viewers across the country beginning with the first-ever live televised fight in 1939, when Lou Nova defeated Max Baer at Yankee Stadium. Over the decades to follow, NBC Sports’ coverage of the sport showcased stars including Joe Louis, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, “Sugar” Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, and Larry Holmes.