Marv Albert will serve as the lead announcer to NBC’s Premier Boxing Champions series.
NBC is looking to get into the world of professional boxing and they want to get in on the ground level of a new boxing series.
While it still appears to be in its infancy stages, the Premier Boxing Champions series looks promising, if nothing else. The roster so far is minuscule in size, however, there is certainly talent to be found in there.
The network will do its best to present this all to the viewers at home, with a voice that many basketball fans are sure to be familiar with. Marv Albert will serve as lead announcer alongside all time great Sugar Ray Leonard.
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Premier Boxing Champions series is set to debut on NBC on Saturday March 7, at 9:00 EST. The first event card will be headlined by WBA Welterweight Champion Keith “One Time” Thurman (24-0-0) vs. Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (32-2-1), as well as former three division world champion Adrian “The Problem Broner (29-1-0) vs. John Molina Jr. (27-5-0). The broadcast will also be made available across NBC’s network of stations as well as their online streaming service.
Albert has been known as the voice of basketball for years now, having worked with NBC when they had a deal to air NBA games throughout the 1990s and now with TNT under their current deal. His voice has be heard in six different NBA Finals match-ups throughout the years and Albert has ventured into additional sports by calling six Super Bowl championships, in addition to seven Stanley Cup finals.
Sugar Ray Leonard is considered by most to have been the premier boxer of the 1980’s, and is mentioned in many conversations regarding the best pound for pound fighters in the history of the sport. A multiple division champion, he retired for the fourth and final time in 1997, compiling a 36-3-1 career record, while defeating hall of fame contemporaries such as Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Duran along the way.
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