Memorable Events
Some other boxing events covered in the series include:
- The Rumble in the Jungle, in which Muhammad Ali beat Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire
- Thrilla In Manila, when Ali beat Frazier in their third and last fight
- Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney, for the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship
- The Battle of The Champions, when Aaron Pryor beat Alexis Argüello in their first fight
- Carnival of Champions, in which Wilfredo Gómez beat Lupe Pintor, and Thomas Hearns beat Wilfred Benítez
- Marvin Hagler- Thomas Hearns fight, billed as The War
- Thunder Meets Lightning, in which Julio César Chávez beat Meldrick Taylor with two seconds remaining in the twelfth round;
- Michael Moorer vs. George Foreman, in which Foreman KO'd Moorer to become the oldest heavyweight champion of the world at age 45
- One of the biggest upset in heavyweight boxing history, when James Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson for the undisputed world heavyweight title in Tokyo, Japan
- The World Awaits - Floyd Mayweather, Jr. beat Oscar De La Hoya for the WBC super-welterweight title.
- "Undefeated" - Floyd Mayweather, Jr. beat Ricky Hatton to retain the WBC welterweight title with a TKO in the 10th Round.
- The Dream Match - The Welterweight match between Manny Pacquiao (moving up 2 weight classes) against Oscar De La Hoya (moving down 1 weight class). Pacquiao won by TKO before the 9th round began (De La Hoya retired on his stool).
World Championship Boxing has also had two spin-off series, Boxing After Dark and KO Nation.
Additionally, a video game carrying the brand name HBO Boxing was produced for the Sony PlayStation.
Read more about this topic: HBO World Championship Boxing
Famous quotes containing the words memorable and/or events:
“The momentary charge at Balaklava, in obedience to a blundering command, proving what a perfect machine the soldier is, has, properly enough, been celebrated by a poet laureate; but the steady, and for the most part successful, charge of this man, for some years, against the legions of Slavery, in obedience to an infinitely higher command, is as much more memorable than that as an intelligent and conscientious man is superior to a machine. Do you think that that will go unsung?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)