Showtime Championship Boxing
Showtime Championship Boxing was a television boxing program airing on Showtime. Debuting in March 1986, it is broadcast live on the first Saturday of every month. Showtime Championship Boxing, which is very similar to HBO World Championship Boxing, features 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.
| 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 – December 16, 2023 |
| Related | |
| ShoBox: The New Generation | |
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.