DAZN News and Notes – “Inside The Ring” & “The Underdog” Debut This Week

Ahead of this weekend’s legendary showdown between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Terence “Bud” Crawford, the action will kick off on DAZN with the debut of two new exclusive programs in partnership with Ring Magazine. First up on Wednesday, “Inside the Ring” airs its opening episode from Las Vegas, followed up by the premiere of  “The Underdog” boxing series on Thursday, which will feature rising contenders, prospects, and the occasional underexposed champion. 

Hosted by veteran sports commentator Max Kellerman, The Ring senior insider Mike Coppinger and former NFL star LeSean McCoy, “Inside the Ring” launches HERE at 2 p.m. ET with Alvarez and Crawford set to appear along with His Excellency Turki Alalshikh and Dana White. Welterweight star Ryan Garcia will join the show as a contributor this week as well. Beginning September 15, the show will air weekly from its studio in Los Angeles every Monday exclusively on DAZN.

“The Underdog” series will come to fans live from the Fontainebleau Las Vegas’ BleauLive Theater,  with WBO Flyweight Champion Anthony Olascuaga (9-1, 6 KOs) defending his title against top contender Juan Carlos Camacho (19-1, 8 KOs) in the inaugural main event. The undercard will see a host of prospects step into the ring, including junior lightweights Justin Viloria (9-0, 7 KOs) and Joshafat Ortiz (13-1, 6 KOs), junior middleweights Jalil Hackett (9-1, 7 KOs) and Elijah Vines (8-0, 7 KOs), junior featherweights Emiliano Alvarado (8-0, 5 KOs) and Juan Garcia (7-0, 2 KOs) and cruiserweights Jamar Talley (3-0, 3 KOs) and Isaiah Thompson (11-4-2, 10 KOs). Check out all the action on Thursday HERE.

Before Canelo and Crawford begins on Saturday, a historic matchup will take place across the pond as Lewis Crocker (21-0, 11 KOs) and Paddy Donovan (14-1, 11 KOs) rematch for the vacant IBF Welterweight Championship in the first-ever world title fight between two boxers from the Island of Ireland. Beginning at 2pm ET exclusively on DAZN, Crocker and Donovan will meet inside Clearer Twist National Stadium at Windsor Park in Belfast. The pair first met in March of this year in a Final Eliminator for the IBF championship, with Crocker taking a controversial disqualification win at the end of the eighth round after Donovan was ruled to have punched after the bell, despite being well ahead on points.

Earlier this week, heavyweight power punchers Joseph Parker (36-3, 24 KOs) and Fabio Wardley (19-0-1, 18 KOs) came face-to-face at the launch press conference ahead of their October 25 bout from London’s O2 arena, available exclusively on DAZN PPV. The press conference replay can be found on the DAZN Boxing YouTube. Parker and Wardley will put their WBO and WBA interim straps up for grabs, with the winner in line to face Oleksandr Usyk. 

Coming up later this fall, undefeated WBC interim champion Vergil Ortiz Jr. (23-0, 21 KOs) will defend his super welterweight title against number one contender Erickson “The Hammer” Lubin (27-2, 19 KOs), live worldwide exclusively on DAZN from Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday, November 8. 

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