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Heavyweight Rematch between Johnathon Banks and Seth Mitchell also Featured on Showtime Championship Boxing Telecast

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Paulie Malignaggi, at right, on the attack versus Juan Diaz several years ago (photo by Tom Glunz)

BROOKLYN, April 25, 2013 — Since the beginning of their professional careers, Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi and Adrien “The Problem” Broner, two of the biggest talkers in all of boxing, have never been afraid to speak up. Now, the time has come to put up or shut up as Malignaggi will defend his WBA Welterweight World Championship against undefeated Two-Division World Champion Broner on Saturday, June 22 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn in a SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® main event. Plus, the heavyweight rematch the world has been waiting for is set as Johnathon Banks will look to repeat his 2012 upset win over Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell in the co-feature for Banks’ NABO and WBC International Heavyweight titles.

Malignaggi vs. Broner, a 12-round fight for Malignaggi’s WBA Welterweight World Championship is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and sponsored by Corona and AT&T with Banks vs. Mitchell being presented in association with K2 Promotions. The SHOWTIME Championship Boxing telecast begins at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast). SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® is available in Spanish on secondary audio programming (SAP). Preliminary fights will air on SHOWTIME EXTREME at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast). (continue reading…)

Jonathon Banks (photo courtesy of k2promos.com)

DETROIT, MI, February 7, 2013 — WBC International and NABO Heavyweight Champion Johnathon Banks has suffered a thumb injury on his right hand which has postponed his rematch with Seth Mitchell, scheduled for Saturday, FEBRUARY 16 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In what was an action packed heavyweight championship fight last November 17, Banks dropped Mitchell three times in the second round enroute to a devastating stoppage. The fight was at the same venue and broadcast on HBO as the rematch was scheduled for. (continue reading…)

Photo courtesy of HBO

ATLANTIC CITY — Boxing’s brightest star and one of the sport’s most eagerly anticipated rematches will both take center stage on Saturday, February 16 when HBO World Championship Boxing telecasts a doubleheader from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey featuring the WBC Lightweight World Championship fight between Two-Time and Two-Division World Champion Adrien “The Problem” Broner and former World Champion Gavin “The Rock” Rees and the second showdown between heavyweights Johnathon Banks and Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell.

This event marks Golden Boy Promotions’ return to the boardwalk after a stellar card on November 17, 2012 that saw Broner capture the WBC Lightweight World Championship with an eighth round stoppage of former World Champion Antonio DeMarco and Banks scored one of the biggest upsets of the year with a second round technical knockout over previously unbeaten Mitchell. (continue reading…)

LIVE ON HBO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING

LOS ANGELES, May 30 – Former Unified Super Lightweight World Champion Amir “King” Khan makes his 2012 ring debut when he returns to the venue of perhaps his most accomplished professional triumphwhen he meets undefeated phenom and current WBC Super Lightweight World Champion Danny “Swift” Garcia Saturday, July 14 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in a fight televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing.

In the co-main event, two of the United States’ top hopes for heavyweight world championship glory will face one another when undefeated Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell and once-beaten Johnathon Banks fight in a 12-round contest. (continue reading…)

Bernard Hopkins, WBC & Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion:

“I’m a throw back. I live in a time where it is so microwavable that there is no time to cook, season, chop or marinate any more. I’m the last of a dying [expletive] breed.

“They were calling me old when I beat Trinidad 11 years ago.

“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will always motivate me.

“I have proven who I am. The reason I’m here is because Dawson didn’t do what he should have against Pascal.

“My biggest motivation has been adversity.

“I don’t drink or smoke and if some is drinking or smoking around me I get up. It’s called discipline.

“This fight all you hear is ‘Chad is bigger. Chad is stronger.’ Not that he is more talented.”

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