BOXXER promoter Ben Shalom has ignited a new broadcast partnership with BBC Sport, shifting his stable of British talent over to an entirely free-to-air platform.<\/p>\n
It was confirmed at the beginning of June that Sky Sports, whose future in boxing remains unclear, had not renewed its four-year deal with Boxxer.<\/p>\n
The broadcast juggernaut had played a key role in facilitating Shalom\u2019s growth in the sport, enabling him to become one of the UK\u2019s top promoters.<\/p>\n
But with a stable of hungry fighters just waiting to be unleashed, it has now come to a point where Boxxer, quite simply, needs to deliver a series of events.<\/p>\n
Among those that fight under Shalom\u2019s banner are Ben Whittaker, Adam Azim and Callum Simpson, with all of whom no doubt hoping to return to action before the end of this year.<\/p>\n
Simpson, as it happens, was the last to headline a Boxxer-promoted show, as his 10th-round stoppage victory over Ivan Zucco arrived not long after Sky Sports\u2019 departure from the promotional outfit became clear.<\/p>\n
But now, after several weeks of uncertainty, we should soon discover just how full Boxxer\u2019s schedule is throughout the remainder of 2025.<\/p>\n
Not only that but, while occupying a slot on Saturday night television, and indeed BBC iPlayer, Boxxer shows now have the potential to reach out to a far wider audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cPartnering with the BBC to deliver big-time British boxing on Saturday night TV is a historic moment,\u201d Shalom said in a press release.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re proud to bring the most entertaining British fighters to the biggest possible audience. This huge platform will give our fights the exposure they deserve and help us take the sport to huge new audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boxxer has staged two all-women\u2019s boxing cards in recent years, with the likes of Lauren Price, Caroline Dubois and Karriss Artingstall having all been involved.<\/p>\n
They, too, will most likely be eager to return to the ring, and defend their respective titles, sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOXXER promoter Ben Shalom has ignited a new broadcast partnership with BBC Sport, shifting his stable of British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-53915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}