Episode dated 8 December 2018
- Episode aired Dec 8, 2018
In a last HBO Boxing broadcast, Cecilia Braekhus fight against Aleksandra Magdziak-Lopes in a ten round fight, at the end of fight, the show looks back at the fights that aired on HBO.In a last HBO Boxing broadcast, Cecilia Braekhus fight against Aleksandra Magdziak-Lopes in a ten round fight, at the end of fight, the show looks back at the fights that aired on HBO.In a last HBO Boxing broadcast, Cecilia Braekhus fight against Aleksandra Magdziak-Lopes in a ten round fight, at the end of fight, the show looks back at the fights that aired on HBO.
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- Self
- (archive footage)
- Self
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- Self
- (as Timothy Bradley)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as James 'Buster' Douglas)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Self
- (as Andrew Golota)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Gennady Golovkin)
Storyline
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- Quotes
Self - Ringside Commentator: So that was it, that's the end of the last boxing match to have appeared on HBO and now it's time to for the three of us, Max Kellerman, Roy Jones and myself to say our final farewell on this broadcast and Roy, you go first.
Self - Ringside Commentator: Well, I just want to say you know, thank you Jim
[Lampley]
Self - Ringside Commentator: , to you and Max
[Kellerman]
Self - Ringside Commentator: you'll have been nothing but brothers and a family to meet, you have been the best two people you could have to shared my broadcast career with and I look forward to seeing something to you guys in the future and I want to say thank you to HBO for all that they've done for me, for my boxing career, my commentary career. My boxing career was born, bred, raised, brewed right here on HBO, no other real network besides HBO, once I got established to who worried
[Fran]
Self - Ringside Commentator: Charles was. My commentary career started 23 years ago and constantly grew right here on HBO as well. I became, I came from being a boy to a man as a commentator as well as a fighter, so I just want to say thank you to everybody involved in HBO, everybody who gave me the opportunities, all the fighters that came and pushed, I came and participated with me inside the ring as I shocked the world on HBO and last but not least, I do want to say thank God for let me find a meter angel by the name of all the courage so thank you everybody, HBO god bless you!
Self - Ringside Commentator: I'm gonna read my closing statement, Roy Jones remains one of the greatest, extemporaneous speakers I have ever worked with in 44 years of broadcasting, Max.
Self - Ringside Commentator: [Max Kellerman in tears] From the time I started watching boxing as a kid I was always drawn to this place, because of the storytelling, the honesty and forthrightness of those broadcasts were unparaelled, that ethos has been championed by the highest reaches of the executive offices of this network
[HBO]
Self - Ringside Commentator: down through every single person working here in the arena to bring you these fights. It is changed sports television, I will miss all the very special people in our HBO family especially, my on-air brothers, Jim Lampley, the best who ever did it, Roy Jones, the best I've ever seen with my own eyes and the late great Emanuel Steward, one of boxing's greatest ever trainers and personalities, that is who work with here. It has been a profound privilege.
Self - Ringside Commentator: Alright, thank you very much Max. Thank you to both of my two eternal brothers, never forget anything about this. I go last. It only stands to reason when an organization does something like this, for this a long period of time, it gradually becomes a family and this is no exception. I'd been remiss if I'd failed to identify the seminal figures who were here from the beginning, so all of you indulge me, indulge us please at this moment. Barry Tompkins who capably hosted this telecast for 15 years before I showed up and who is still calling fights
[on ShoBox: The New Generation]
Self - Ringside Commentator: at a high level to this day. Bob Papa who for several years hosted Boxing After Dark. Ross Greenburg, who produced this telecast for decades at the beginning before he graduated to the role of arranging of fights. Rick Bernstein, who succeeded Ross as Executive Producer. Seth Abraham, Lou DiBella and Ken Hershman who all at one time or another occupied the executive role prior to the current regime. Dave Harmon, who has capably for the past dozen years along with Thomas Odelfelt and Jonathan Crystal. Marc Payton, who for decades, defined the art of directing boxing television and Jonathan Evans who so capably succeeded him. Larry Merchant, who defined the art of being Larry Merchant.
[Sugar]
Self - Ringside Commentator: Ray Leonard, George Foreman, Lennox Lewis, Andre Ward, Bernard Hopkins and Gil Clancy, who all sat in Roy Jones's chair at one time or another and 4 names who have already exited this life, but whose very mentioned within our family still elicit tears, a handheld cameraman, named Gordie Saiger, an audioman
[gasps]
Self - Ringside Commentator: , excuse me named Paul Hogatt, the great Emanuel Steward, whom both Roy and Max of already mentioned still are soulful conscience here and already curry invisible link to the lives of the fighters. There dozens of other names belong here, but time now intervenes and with that said at the end of the day, this family was also a business and every business has an organic beginning and a natural inevitable end. Here at HBO Boxing, the end has come, we thank you for watching we urge you to turn elsewhere
[to ESPN, DAZN and Showtime]
Self - Ringside Commentator: to continue your support of this purest and most human of all competitive sports and most of all, we thank the people who poured forth their bodies and bare souls to write our 45-year history in the ring, the fighters, they are uniquely precious and the life lessons they provided to us are timeless and indispensable and here now for your memories is the indelible evidence.
[Speech ends with a retrospective]