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Longtime boxing commentator Larry Merchant was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles last night and is in the critical care unit, according to a report.

The 92-year-old broadcaster, best known for his long stint with HBO, was taken to a Los Angeles hospital around 6 p.m./Pt Thursday, according to TMZ, which sites sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

Merchant was a staple of HBO’s boxing coverage from 1978 until his retirement in 2012. He provided commentary for such HBO programs as HBO World Championship Boxing, HBO Boxing After Dark and various HBO pay-per-view boxing telecasts. He offered expert analysis opposite his longtime partner at the mic, Jim Lampley, who provided the blow-by-blow.

After HBO discontinued its regular boxing coverage in 2018, ESPN boxing analyst Dan Rafael, who considered Merchant among the all-time great boxing broadcasters, quoted Merchant as saying about HBO’s boxing coverage, “Once upon a time we were a promising kid.

Get ready boxing fans! Oscar de la Hoya Golden Boy Promotions will partner up with FilmOn TV for two free channels, which will launch at the end of January. The Golden Boy Channel will featured over 2,000 hours of de la Hoya’s fights that spans over the champion’s career. Sports fans will get the opportunity to re-watch pivotal Oscar de la Hoya fights with Floyd Mayweather, Pernell Whitiker, Fernando Vargas, Ike Quartay, Manny Pacquiao and others. The Ring Channel will live stream bouts from Golden Boy Promotions’ L.A. Fight Club every two weeks starting on January 29. In addition, Ring Channel will also stream the undercards from many HBO boxing [ Read More ]

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TV Picks: HBO Boxing® presents World Championship Boxing®: Canelo Alvarez Vs. James Kirkland and Humberto Soto Vs. Frankie Gomez on Saturday May 9 from from Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. In one of the most-anticipated events on the action-packed HBO Boxing calendar, the brightest, fastest-rising star in the sport meets one of his toughest challenges to date when Canelo Alverez Vs. James Kirkland and Humberto Soto Vs. Frankie Gomez airs Saturday, May 9 at 9:00 p.m. (live Et/tape-delayed Pt) from Minute Maid Park in Houston, exclusively on HBO.The HBO Sports team will be ringside to call all the action, […]...

Boxing's fastest rising star, Middleweight World Champion, Gennady 'Ggg' Golovkin will battle two-time world champion Daniel 'The Real Deal' Geale in his triumphant return to 'The Mecca of Boxing', Madison Square Garden Saturday, July 26 and televised Live on HBO World Championship Boxing beginning at 930 p.m. Etpt. Golovkin and legendary announcer Michael Buffer both made cameo appearances in different kind of ring last night- at Broadway's Rocky, and BroadwayWorld was there for the special appearance.Check out photo coverage from backstage with the cast below...

Boxing's fastest rising star, Middleweight World Champion, Gennady 'Ggg' Golovkin will battle two-time world champion Daniel 'The Real Deal' Geale in his triumphant return to 'The Mecca of Boxing', Madison Square Garden Saturday, July 26 and televised Live on HBO World Championship Boxing beginning at 930 p.m. Etpt. Golovkin and legendary announcer Michael Buffer both made cameo appearances in different kind of ring last night- at Broadway's Rocky, and BroadwayWorld was there for the special appearance.Check out photo coverage from Golovkin in his Broadway debut below...

At the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas today, Marvel announced plans for a new video series called Marvel's Tales to Astonish, a series of 13 minute documentaries about some of their most famous stories. The first will focus on Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's Civil War, and it will be helmed by Eric Drath, a filmmaker who won an Emmy for the 2008 HBO boxing documentary Assault in the Ring. "To him, ["Civil War"] was interesting, because you had two of Marvel's most major characters squaring off against each other," John Cerilli, Marvel's vice president of digital content and programming said. "All of us who grew up reading comic books, especially Marvel, we all know that our heroes beat the crap out of each other. But this was interesting to him, and one of the things that led him into this. We started telling him more about the...

The relationship odds are ever in Jennifer’s favor! When the actress realized what she had been missing with her former flame Nicholas, she went after what she wanted and won him back! Read on for all the details!

We all know Jennifer Lawrence isn’t one to hold back her feelings, and we love that about her. Apparently so does her on-again boyfriend Nicholas Hoult! After Jennifer decided she wanted get back together with her ex, she jumped right in. Good for her!

Nicholas Hoult & Jennifer Lawrence Back Together — How She Won Him Back

Jennifer and Nicholas met on the set of X-Men: First Class in 2011 and sparks immediately flew. They were an item until January, 2013, when they ended their two-year relationship due to busy schedules. But the two stars bonded again in June while filming X-Men: Days of Future Past in Montreal.

“They lived together,” a source close...

Tune in alert for The Fight Game with Jim Lampley which returns for its latest edition Saturday, June 29 (12:30-1:00 a.m. Et/Pt), exclusively on HBO. From HBO Described as a provocative, engaging and informative experience that delves into intriguing storylines, newsmakers and issues that are top-of-mind in boxing, the latest edition of the show debuts immediately following the .HBO Boxing After Dark. tripleheader headlined by the world middleweight title fight between titleholder Gennady Golovkin and Matthew Macklin, which begins at 9:45 p.m. (Et/Pt). Four-time Sports Emmy® winner Lampley has been the host of HBO Boxing since joining the network in 1988. Headlining the program will be a comprehensive mid-year report, with Max Kellerman, Andre Ward and Sports Illustrated.s Chris Mannix...

The relationship odds may be in Jennifer’s favor! She was spotted with ex-boyfriend Nicholas in Canada the weekend of June 7, and they seemed inseparable.

Jennifer Lawrence, 22, and ex-boyfriend Nicholas Hoult, 23, are currently filming the sequel to X-Men: First Class in Canada — and while we know that means they have to be around each other on-set, they also aren’t taking any breaks from each other off-set. They might not be exes much longer!

Jennifer & Nicholas’ Weekend Together

Jennifer and Nicholas met on the set of X-Men: First Class in 2011 and sparks immediately flew. They were an item until Jan. 2013, when they ended their two-year relationship due to busy schedules. But now that they’re reunited on the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past in Montreal, their schedules have realigned — and the stars may have realigned for them as well!

They spent time together with their X-Men co-stars James McAvoy,...

A staple of HBO Boxing events, former boxing champ Héctor 'Macho' Camacho was shot in in Puerto Rico Tueday night and is listed as critical and on life support in hospital care. CNN reports that Camacho, 50, who had a career record of 79-6-3, was outside a bar in a parked Ford Mustang with a friend when he was shot in the face. The friend, 49-year-old Adrian Mojica Moreno, was killed. Camacho was born in Puerto Rico, but grew up in Spanish Harlem (NYC). His son, Héctor Camacho Jr., is also a professional boxer. The news is not good, as doctors and his family expected to decide whether to remove the former boxing champion from life support. "He's...