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ESPN has announced that it is laying off some 300 employees. The network says the job cuts are due to the impact of COVID-19. No indication as to whether anyone in boxing is involved.
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The Impact Network has hired 18-year-old Zach Hirsch as a ringside reporter for its boxing telecasts. Hirsch, the son of famed boxing manager Scott Hirsch, is known for his sports handicapping skills. He has more than 350,000 followers on his @ipickwins Instagram account. Other members of the broadcast team are Antonio Tarver and Curran Bhatia.
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WBO President Francisco ‘Paco’ Valcárcel oversaw the official belting of new WBO female junior lightweight champion Mikaela Mayer at a ceremony today in Naranjito, Puerto Rico. Former world champions José Pedraza and Alex ‘El Nene’ Sánchez presented Mayer with the belt.

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  • No surprise in the layoffs in ESPN. My neighbor works for ESPN in filming sports events and travels abroad to do so. His wife just told me last week he will be getting unemployment benefits for a while.

  • Hopefully that annoying twat Mark Kriegal gets laid off. The guy adds nothing. He once talked about a fighters “immigrant mother who picked oranges” for an entire broadcast and mentioned it at least once every round of the guys fight. It was so obnoxious and added absolutely nothing to the fight itself.

    And a few weeks ago, I think the Loma/ Lopez undercard, one of the fighters was in prison for a couple of years and he also had a child die in a car accident or something like that. And besides it being obnoxious and annoying to constantly talk about these guys families and personal lives while they are fighting, and talking about that instead of the actual fight…. This idiot says “if anyone has the right to rage it’s him”. Oh, so because someone goes through a tragedy that gives them an excuse to commit multiple crimes and victimize other people?

    It’s juts typical SJW, white guilt bs that ESPN is a huge fan of. And making everything about politics. I personally hope ESPN gets out of the boxing business. Outside of a few exceptions recently, all of their fights are big names is mismatches and awful undercards. Only showtime and DAZN are doing boxing right. Everyone else is just wasting fans and fighters time.

    • Watched the last DAZN broadcast on replay. Female bouts dominated the undercard and the fast forward button. Still not forgiven for their disrespectful start time for Canelo v Kovalev.

    • Jay, funny you say that. I can’t stand that guy. He talks as if he has more boxing knowledge than anyone ever has. Roger Mayweather’s quote stand true with this guy.

  • I don’t pay attention to the commentators anymore. Paulie was good on showtime and Teddy was annoying at times but overall enjoyable on espn because he told the truth. These new guys are scared to say anything that could be considered controversial or against the network’s fighter. Plus most of them just plain don’t know what they are talking about. IMO ESPN is doing the best job making quality matchups and when you bring price into the equation they are winning by a landslide. Not impressed with DAZN at all. Gave up my subscription. Too many mismatches.

  • Because of Covid? yeah right. Because it’s a sjw commie lovefest over there and nobody is Kreigel is the worst boxing commentator ever. Why is he there? (Tribal Member) Boxing like all other sports are dead in the new world order. Who wants to watch a sparring session while the ref wears a mask??

  • Yeah, I believe ESPN has a convenient excuse to use covid-19 for these layoffs, but the truth is the network has been losing subscribers for years. When you insult half your audience, that’s just not good business.

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