Boxing

Boxing-focused UK pay-television broadcaster BoxNation has acquired rights for the Canelo Alvarez v Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. fight on May 6.

Australian pay-television operator Foxtel has said it will take action against at least two social media users who used the Facebook Live service to stream its pay-per-view coverage of the boxing match between Danny Green and Anthony Mundine on Friday.

Boxing-focused pay-television channel BoxNation has extended a rights deal in the UK for the International Boxing Association’s World Series of Boxing.

The IMG agency has agreed a partnership with the International Boxing Association (Aiba) for the sale and distribution of the worldwide broadcast rights to its events in 2017.

International sports broadcaster ESPN has secured a multi-year rights deal with boxing promoter Golden Boy Promotions.

French pay-television broadcaster SFR Sport has agreed a four-year rights deal to cover the World Series of Boxing, as a French team prepares to return to the International Boxing Association (Aiba) event.

Media company CSI Sports has agreed carriage deals for its Fight Sports pay-television channel in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

ITV has acquired exclusive rights in the UK to the IBO World Super Middleweight boxing bout between Chris Eubank Jnr and Renold Quinlan on February 4, with the fight to be shown on the commercial broadcaster’s new pay-per-view channel.

The value of Sauerland boxing rights in Germany remained steady in a renewal with leading commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 earlier this month, despite the addition of new events from next year.

Media company CSI Sports, the owner of Fight Sports, has struck a distribution deal for the pay-television channel with DAZN, the recently-launched OTT service operated by digital-media company Perform.

Russian state-run broadcaster Channel One has acquired rights for the highly-anticipated boxing world title bout between Sergey Kovalev and Andre Ward this weekend.

Specialist boxing pay-television channel BoxNation has hailed a multi-year partnership with UK telecommunications company BT as a “landmark” moment in its history.

The Sauerland boxing agency has renewed a rights deal with German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1.

French telecommunications company SFR has acquired rights in France for its SFR Sport television platform to Manny Pacquiao’s upcoming return to the boxing ring.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired rights for the light-heavyweight bout between Sergey Kovalev and Andre Ward.

UK pay-television broadcaster BoxNation will offer pay-per-view coverage of a boxing event via pay-television operator Sky for the first time next month when Tyson Fury takes on Wladimir Klitschko in a heavyweight world title rematch.