Boxing

German public-service broadcaster ARD will consider showing boxing bouts beyond the end of this year on an ad hoc basis and is considering bringing back coverage of the Tour de France cycling race, according to spokeswoman Anna Engelke.

Boxing television rights distributor and sports marketing firm Octapixx Live has been selected to exclusively market the international broadcast rights for Warriors Boxing Promotions’ upcoming world championship cards in the US on October 4 and November 1.

The Fight Sports pay-television channel will launch in Spain after media company CSI Sports, the owner of the channel, agreed a multi-year carriage deal with pay-television operator Ono.

Media rights clips from July 24 to August 20

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, will show Wladimir Klitschko’s defence of his world heavyweight boxing titles against Kubrat Pulev on September 6.

UK telecommunications provider TalkTalk has added specialist boxing channel BoxNation and pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports to its pay-television service YouView.

Boxing television rights distributor and sports marketing firm Octapixx Live has reached an agreement to market the international broadcast rights for the IBF super-bantamweight title fight between Kiko Martinez and Carl Frampton.

Kazakh boxer Gennady Golovkin’s promoter, K2 Promotions, has signed a multi-fight rights deal with US pay-television broadcaster HBO.

Media rights clips from July 10 to July 23.

The Fight Sports pay-television channel will launch in Germany this October.

The CSI Sports media company has signed a multi-year agreement for its Fight Sports Network to exclusively broadcast fights involving China’s Olympic boxing medallist Zhang Zhilei.

Media rights clips from May 29 to June 11

Boxing promoter Top Rank has linked up with Macao resort and casino operator Sands China and Chinese promotional company Seca to launch a new television series in China.

UK specialist boxing pay-television channel BoxNation has reached a deal to show the fight between British middleweight Martin Murray and Max Bursak of Ukraine, which is taking place in Monte Carlo on June 21.

South Africa’s Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has said there will continue to be no live coverage of boxing on public-service broadcaster SABC due to a dispute between the Boxing South Africa governing body and promoter Branco Milenkovic.

Media rights clips from April 10 to April 30