RELENTLESS PREVIEW GIVES FANS INSIDE PEEK
AT MIGUEL COTTO & RICARDO MAYORGA;
RELIVES LEGENDARY BOB ARUM & DON KING PROMOTIONS
PREMIERES TONIGHT/FRIDAY, FEB. 18, AT 10
P.M.
ON SHOWTIME EXTREME®
Cotto vs. Mayorga Saturday, March. 12,
at MGM
Grand Garden
Arena, LIVE on SHOWTIME PPV®
NEW YORK
(Feb. 18, 2011) With their highly anticipated world championship confrontation
less than one month away, boxing fans will get exclusive, behind-the-scenes
access to the training camps and lives of boxing superstars Miguel Cotto and Ricardo Mayorga when Relentless, a 30-minute preview
of the first major pay-per-view world championship boxing event of 2011,
premieres tonight/Friday, Feb. 18,
at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME EXTREME®.
Cotto,
the Pride of Puerto Rico, will defend his World Boxing Association (WBA) super
welterweight title against two-division world champion Mayorga on Saturday, March 12, at the MGM Grand in
Las Vegas . Cotto vs. Mayorga will be
produced and distributed LIVE by SHOWTIME
PPV®, beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6
p.m. PT.
Relentless
provides exclusive interviews and reactions from their explosive, trash-talking,
kickoff press conference in New York ,
where Mayorga promised to force Cotto to retire following the March 12
showdown.
In
addition to the fireworks expected in the ring, the event also marks the first
time in five years that Hall of Fame promoters Bob Arum and Don King
have joined forces for a promotion. Relentless will take a
look back at some of the legendary fights that Arum and King have promoted, including
flashbacks to the unforgettable Muhammad Ali-Joe
Frazier battles and footage from Sugar
Ray Leonard s controversial split-decision victory over Marvelous Marvin Hagler in 1987.
Relentless
also takes a look at World Boxing Council (WBC) female super welterweight
champion Christy Martin and her miraculous
comeback trail in search of her landmark 50th professional victory
against Dakota Stone.
Finally,
the preview piece builds on and explores the relationship between Cotto and
Hall of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward.
Relentless will investigate the connection between the two boxing
icons, who started working together following Cotto s win over former WBA
super welterweight champion and future rabbi Yuri
Foreman in June of 2010. On March 12, Foreman will take on Top-10
contender Pawel Wolak in an
undercard 10-round super welterweight rumble.
Cotto,
of Caguas , Puerto Rico ,
has held a world title every year since 2004 and has won 15 of the 17 world
championship bouts he has fought. Mayorga, of
Managua , Nicaragua ,
is known for his reckless abandon and fearlessness inside the ring a
style of fighting that has produced 23 knockouts out of his 29 victories and
legions of fans.
Cotto
and Mayorga have fought a boxing who s who of the last decade, including Manny Pacquiao, Oscar de la Hoya, Sugar
Shane Mosley, Zab Judah, Vernon Forrest, Cory Spinks, Fernando
Vargas and Felix Trinidad.
Airdates
for Relentless are as follows:
DATE
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TIME
|
CHANNEL
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Friday,
Feb. 18
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10 p.m. ET/PT
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SHO EXTREME
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Thursday,
Feb. 24
|
7:35 p.m. ET/PT
|
SHO EXTREME
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Friday,
Feb. 25
|
10 p.m. ET/PT
|
SHO EXTREME
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Tuesday,
Mar. 1
|
10 p.m. ET/PT
|
SHO EXTREME
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Thursday,
Mar. 3
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7:30 p.m. ET/PT
|
SHO EXTREME
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Friday,
Mar. 4
|
11:45 p.m. ET/PT
|
SHO EXTREME
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Monday,
Mar. 7
|
9:30 p.m. ET/PT
|
SHO EXTREME
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Wednesday,
Mar. 9
|
10:30 p.m. ET/PT
|
SHO EXTREME
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Friday,
Mar. 11
|
10 p.m. ET/PT
|
SHO EXTREME
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Saturday,
Mar. 12
|
1:30 p.m. ET/PT
|
SHO
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The Cotto
vs. Mayorga pay-per-view telecast, beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, has a
suggested retail price of $49.95. It will be produced and distributed live by
SHOWTIME PPV®. The telecast will be available in HD-TV for those
viewers who can receive HD. For Cotto vs. Mayorga fight week
updates, log on to www.sports.SHO.com
or www.toprank.com
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