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1930s. 1936. 2 November – The BBC opens the world's first regular high-definition television service, from Alexandra Palace. 1937. 21 June – The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time. 1938. 2 April – The BBC covers The Boat Race for the first time.
OneRepublic (2019/20-2022/23) Final Score is a BBC Television football news and results programme produced by BBC Sport. The programme is broadcast on late Saturday afternoons in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, usually on BBC One. BBC Northern Ireland opts away during the last ten minutes to cover local results in Final Score from Northern ...
1995. January – ITV loses rights to Frank Warren's Sports Network fights to Sky Sports. [2] October – ITV resumes its coverage of boxing, albeit for lower profile fights. 1996. 16 March – The fight between Frank Bruno and Mike Tyson is the UK's first television pay-per-view event. 1997.
1 Vacated title to fight Peter Manfredo Jr. instead of #1 contender Robert Stieglitz. The Ring: 2006–2008 3 Vacated titles to move up to light heavyweight. WBA, WBC: 2007–2008 0 Light heavyweight The Ring: 2008 1 Retired and vacated title. Kim Ji-won [3] 16–0–2 Super bantamweight IBF 1985–1986 4 Mihai Leu [4] 28–0–0 Welterweight ...
The British Boxing Board of Control initially refused to grant Jane Couch a professional licence on the sole ground that she was a woman, and argued that PMS made women too unstable to box. [5] [6] Claiming sexual discrimination and supported by the Equal Opportunities Commission , Couch managed to have this decision overturned by a tribunal in March 1998.
A drawing of a cross. In boxing, the "one-two combo" is the name given to the combination consisting of two common punches found in boxing – a jab (thrown with the lead hand) followed by the cross (thrown with the back hand). [ 1] In boxing parlance, fundamental punches are commonly assigned numbers by trainers and in this case there is the ...
August 7, 2024 at 4:40 PM. PARIS — The second boxer at the center of a global debate over gender eligibility and fairness at the Paris Olympics won her semifinal match Wednesday, ascending to ...
Representing England. World Championships. 2019 Yekaterinburg. Light-heavyweight. EU Championships. 2018 Valladolid. Light-heavyweight. Benjamin G. Whittaker (born 6 June 1997) [ 2] is an English professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics .