Prizefighter Series

The Prizefighter series is a professional boxing tournament created by boxing promoter Barry Hearn and aired on Sky Sports. The format has an initial eight fighters, who compete in four quarter-finals of 3 x 3 minute rounds (number and length of the rounds is same as in amateur boxing) followed by two semi-finals and one final all on the same night. The total prize money of the tournament is £80,000 with the winner of the tournament taking home £32,000, a figure that has increased from the initial top prize of £25,000 when the tournament first aired in April 2008. There have been 29 Prizefighter tournaments so far featuring 14 different weight divisions. Since February 2012, betting company Betfair have been the title sponsors of the tournaments, with the series now called the 'Betfair Prizefighter series'.