Showtime Championship Boxing

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Showtime Championship Boxing
Genre	Sports, Boxing
Created by	Showtime
Country of origin	United States
Production
Production companies	Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc. (1986–1988) Showtime Networks (1988–2023)
Original release
Network	Showtime
Release	March 10, 1986 (1986-03-10) – December 16, 2023 (2023-12-16)
Related
ShoBox: The New Generation
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Showtime Championship Boxing is a television boxing program that aired on Showtime. Debuting in March 1986, it was broadcast live on the first Saturday of every month. Showtime Championship Boxing, which was very similar to HBO World Championship Boxing, featured Mauro Ranallo on play-by-play, Al Bernstein as the color analyst, Jimmy Lennon (Sr. and Jr.) as ring announcers, and Jim Gray as reporter.

A sister program, ShoBox: The New Generation, has occasionally aired on Friday nights, featuring fights between boxing prospects. Showtime has also occasionally aired limited cards on the CBS broadcast network since 2012, with the telecasts billed as a special edition of Showtime Championship Boxing rather than being billed as a CBS Sports broadcast.

With the announcement in October 2023 that Showtime Sports will be closing at the end of year, any future sports programming on the network will be branded under the CBS Sports branding.^[1]