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26-596: The system is based on a computer program, originally named FightStat, developed by Jon Gibbs in 1984–85 when Gibbs worked with Logan Hobson and Robert Canobbio at Sports Information Data Base (SIDB), of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. Gibbs was the developer of TenniSTAT, the first computer-generated statistics program for tennis, which was used by the US Open, Wimbledon, the Australian Open, and other major tournaments. At Hobson & Canobbio's request, Gibbs wrote

52-540: A basic-cable sports channel in Canada , held the Canadian broadcast rights to most HBO boxing events, often airing them live (with ads inserted between rounds) if they did not conflict with other sports properties on the channel. From January 2009 to the series' end, HBO World Championship Boxing , and other HBO boxing events, aired live on HBO Canada with later repeats on TSN. Tubi Tubi (stylized as tubi )

78-447: A content deal with Warner Bros. Discovery for 11 new FAST channels and adding on demand content from various Warner Bros. Discovery properties. In July 2023, Anjali Sud was announced as the new CEO of Tubi following the departure of Farhad Massoudi. In December 2023, Tubi signed a new content deal with Warner Bros Discovery to bring 9 new FAST channels along with adding DC shows and movies for on demand. In May 2024, Tubi sued

104-468: A distribution deal with NBCUniversal , which includes 400 TV episodes and films. Tubi became available on Vizio SmartCast on September 25, 2019. On October 21, Tubi launched Tubi Kids, a dedicated hub for the streamer's children-centric content via Roku and supported devices. On March 17, 2020, Fox Corporation announced that it would acquire Tubi for $ 440 million cash upfront, with the sale being completed on April 20; Farhad Massoudi would remain at

130-675: A fight that saw George Foreman defeat Joe Frazier in Kingston, Jamaica . HBO's pay-per-view distribution arm, TVKO was founded in December 1990, and then launched in April 1991 with Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman , becoming HBO PPV in 2001. On February 3, 1996, HBO debuted a spin-off program, Boxing After Dark , with the fight between Marco Antonio Barrera and Kennedy McKinney as its inaugural telecast. On September 27, 2018, HBO announced they would be dropping boxing from

156-752: A law firm called Keller Postman for allegedly manufacturing tens of thousands of meritless discrimination claims against it in the hopes of coercing a settlement. Sandy Grushow , former Fox TV chair, is an advisory board member. Mark Amin , former vice chair of Lionsgate , was an investor before the Fox acquisition. Adrise, the company behind Tubi, has raised $ 4   million in capital. Principal investors include Foundation Capital , Bobby Yazdani , Zod Nazem , SGH Capital, and Streamlined Ventures. In November 2015, AdRise partnered with Blue Ant Media to launch Tubi in Canada. Tubi became inaccessible throughout

182-985: A partnership with TV Azteca . In July 2022, Tubi announced a partnership with Shaw Communications to make the service available to all of Shaw's customers, and further expanding Tubi's reach in Canada. In August 2022, Tubi launched in Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama. In July 2024, Tubi launched in the United Kingdom. As of January 2023, Tubi's programming includes more than 40,000 films and television series from more than 250 providers (American and foreign). These have included: Since its acquisition by Fox Corporation, Tubi also carries programming from Fox Entertainment , Fox Soul , local news from stations owned by Fox as well as affiliates of other major networks, and Fox Weather . The service began producing its own original content in 2021, including television films and series. And even before

208-518: A real-time bidding platform for advertisers that deliver video ads across various platforms. Through Fox Sports , Tubi currently has the rights to show live matches from the NBA G League , UEFA Nations League , CONCACAF , and Liga MX / Liga MX Femenil . With the exception of the G League, these games are shown on the channel Fox Sports on Tubi . During the 2022 FIFA World Cup , Tubi offered all matches on-demand 30 minutes after they ended. During

234-469: A weekly broadcast co-produced with Turner Sports for sister cable network TruTV . multiplex Spanish-language channel HBO Latino aired two spin-off series Oscar De La Hoya Presenta Boxeo De Oro (focused on fighters from De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions ) and Generación Boxeo . Additionally, a video game carrying the brand name HBO Boxing was released for the PlayStation in 2000, which

260-534: Is an American over-the-top content platform and free ad-supported streaming television owned by Fox Corporation since 2020. The service was launched on April 1, 2014, and is based in Los Angeles, California . As of May 2024, it had 80 million monthly active users. Tubi was founded by Farhad Massoudi and Thomas Ahn Hicks of AdRise in San Francisco , launching in 2014 as a free service under

286-653: Is not a sports network". The network cancelled its last sports-related program, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel , at the end of 2023. In March 2024, Warner Bros. Discovery revived the HBO Boxing brand as an free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel that are available on Tubi and Amazon Freevee , that showcases some boxing bouts that aired on World Championship Boxing and Boxing After Dark , as well as some boxing-related episodes of 24/7 . Famous matches broadcast on World Championship Boxing include: A famous incident occurred on July 11, 1996, during

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312-523: Is to settle controversies surrounding fights by counting each punch thrown by each of the fighters, and also each punch landed, to provide fight viewers with a final punchstat count and a perception of who should ideally be given the judges' decision, in the cases where a fight lasts the full distance. The system calls for two operators. Each operator watches one of the two fighters and has access to four keys, corresponding to jab connect, jab miss, power punch connect, and power punch miss. The operators key in

338-538: The Riddick Bowe vs. Andrew Golota fight at Madison Square Garden, in which a confrontation between Golota and Bowe's entourage after Golata's disqualification for delivering low blows to Bowe, resulting a chaotic and violent brawl between the boxers' respective entourages and fans. During the fight, HBO's commentary team had to evacuate their ringside position (with George Foreman helping to protect his fellow commentators after unsuccessfully attempting to put an end to

364-825: The European Union as a result of the GDPR entering into force on May 25, 2018. It was later announced that Tubi would relaunch in the United Kingdom by early 2019. In July 2024, Tubi relaunched in the United Kingdom with ads. According to their website, they "hope to relaunch in the EU in the future". and is "working on compliance [with GDPR] and is planning to relaunch in European countries soon". Tubi officially launched in Australia and New Zealand on September 1, 2019. In January 2020, Tubi announced an expansion to Mexico, in

390-596: The acquisition, through the Español and Tubi Kids hubs respectively, the service also inherited former MundoFox game show Minuto para Ganar as well as a few shows that previously aired on Fox's former 4Kids TV block (such as Chaotic (only available in the Spanish-language section), Dinosaur King , G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 , Sonic X , and several entries in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise). Tubi uses

416-594: The code for FightStat (also called PunchStat in some venues) and was used at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum and in Reno for the 1985 HBO Boxing telecast of the Livingstone Bramble - Ray Mancini rematch for the WBA 's world Lightweight title. After SIDB went bankrupt in 1985, Hobson and Canobbio renamed the program CompuBox and founded CompuBox Inc. Hobson later left the company in 2002. CompuBox's purpose

442-407: The company, which would continue as a separate subsidiary. In December 2021, Fox acquired MarVista Entertainment , in a move to bolster Tubi's library and leverage its production capabilities for made-for-TV movies. In December 2022, Tubi signed a content deal with South Korean entertainment company CJ ENM , licensing a number of South Korean films and TV series. In January 2023, Tubi signed

468-408: The continued carriage of the sport untenable. HBO's long-term move to upscale dramatic programming, an ownership transfer of parent WarnerMedia to AT&T , then Warner Bros. Discovery , where the company's sport division became focused on TNT as TNT Sports , and re-focus around the upcoming streaming service HBO Max also played a role in the decision, with an HBO executive commenting that "HBO

494-496: The different punches as they happen, collecting punch counts and hit percentages along the way. CompuBox is used by HBO , NBC and ESPN . Former world champion Genaro Hernandez was one of the men in charge of operating the system . HBO Boxing HBO World Championship Boxing (in later years stylized in its title card as HBO Boxing – World Championship ) is an American sports television series on premium television network HBO . It premiered on January 22, 1973, with

520-599: The fighting; the commentators' table was destroyed in the brawl), resulting in several minutes of commentary-free coverage of the melee before Jim Lampley was able to resume coverage of the incident from several levels above. Larry Merchant and Foreman remained in the ring providing coverage as tempers continued to flare into punch-ups between spectators. The credits rolled over footage of NYPD officers entering MSG and beginning to make arrests. World Championship Boxing has also had three spin-off series: Boxing After Dark ; KO Nation ; and MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout ,

546-629: The name Tubi TV. In May 2017, they raised US$ 20 million in a round of funding from Jump Capital, Danhua Capital , Cota Capital, and Foundation Capital . In June 2019, Tubi announced that it had over 20 million active monthly users, and later in September, the company reported that users had streamed 132 million hours of content. In September 2020, the company reported 33 million monthly users. In 2019, CEO Farhad Massoudi announced that Tubi would nearly double its 2018 spending on licensed content, close to US$ 100 million. In February 2019, Tubi signed

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572-504: The network following its last televised match on October 27, though two airings on November 24 and December 8 were its last editions. Various issues in the boxing business, including the influx of streaming options (such as DAZN and ESPN+ ) and issues with promoters and competing entities such as Premier Boxing Champions , along with declining ratings and loss of interest in the sport among HBO's subscribers for other ring sports such as mixed martial arts and professional wrestling , made

598-419: The rules under which the fight would be conducted before handing back to Lampley for pre-fight introductions; however the rules were later simply flashed on-screen to save time. Former judge Steve Weisfeld also appeared in this role, usually when Lederman's daughter Julie was judging a fight and as such Harold could not be on television due to the conflict of interest. Michael Buffer was an unofficial member of

624-540: The team as ring announcer for most HBO fights. Even Showtime Championship Boxing ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. subbed for Buffer occasionally and Buffer occasionally subbed for Lennon on Showtime boxing programming. Chon Romero was one of the commentators for HBO Boxing's Spanish telecasts. Former commentators include: Marv Albert , Len Berman , Barry Tompkins , Fran Charles , Gil Clancy , Howard Cosell , Don Dunphy , Sugar Ray Leonard , Al Michaels , Jerry Quarry and Dick Stockton . Prior to 2009, TSN ,

650-523: Was published by Acclaim Entertainment under their Acclaim Sports banner. The main broadcast team was Jim Lampley on blow-by-blow, with former and future ESPN reporter Max Kellerman as color commentator, replacing Larry Merchant , who retired in December 2012. For the last two years of Merchant's contract he and Kellerman alternated telecasts. The analyst position was held (when he was available) by former multiple-division world champion Roy Jones, Jr . Andre Ward or Bernard Hopkins fill in when Jones

676-529: Was unavailable. The position used to be held by Sugar Ray Leonard and former world heavyweight champions George Foreman and Lennox Lewis , and most recently (until his death) by trainer Emanuel Steward . For pay-per-view fights, Bob Costas and James Brown used to host the telecast while Lampley called the fight; however Lampley later did both. Harold Lederman , a former boxing judge, served as "unofficial scorer," giving his scorecards after every three rounds, sometimes two. Lederman also used to voice-over

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