Nigel Lythgoe, Triller Fight Club Team for Competition Series So You Think You Can Fight (EXCLUSIVE)
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Variety has learned exclusively.
“So You Think You Can Fight” will follow in a similar format to “So You Think You Can Dance.” The weekly, hour-long series will pair a celebrity action star with a pro fighter, each who will select an amateur boxer through a global talent search and competition, along with audience voting and participation. The selected contestants will each go through rigorous mental and physical training, squaring off against each other with one winner for each category lightweight, heavyweight and MMA. Each winner will go on to a pro bout on a Triller Fight Club main event that will launch their pro boxing career.
Posted on 05/11/2021
By: Hans Themistode
It appears as though Teófimo Lopez will have to share the undisputed stage.
For the first time in boxing history, there will be two undisputed title fights on the same card. With Lopez already set to defend his IBF, WBA, WBC, WBO and Ring Magazine lightweight titles against mandatory challenger George Kambosos Jr., a new women’s undisputed super middleweight champion will emerge in the co-headliner.
WBC/WBO champion, Franchon Crews-Dezurn is set to take on IBF/WBA titlist, Elin Cederroos. Crews-Dezurn was given her world titles back after losing them at the hands of Alejandro Jimenez in January of 2020. The Norfolk, Virginia native saw her split decision loss reversed to a no-contest after it was revealed that Jimenez failed a post-fight drug test.
The Lightweight world title clash between Teofimo Lopez and George Kambosos Jr headlines a stacked card in Miami on June 19
Teofimo Lopez’s Lightweight world title showdown with George Kambosos Jr has moved to June 19 at loanDepot park in Miami, Florida on Triller pay-per-view.
WBA ‘Super’, IBF, WBO and WBC Franchise champion, Lopez (16-0, 12 KOs) was set to do battle with mandatory challenger, Kambosos Jr (19-0, 10 KOs) on June 5, after holding a press conference last month to announce their clash.
However, it has now been switched to June 19 at the home of Miami Marlins, avoiding a clash with the return of former undefeated pound-for-pound star Floyd Mayweather who meets YouTuber and 0-1 boxer, Logan Paul in an exhibition on June 6 on SHOWTIME pay-per-view, as well as ensuring the bout will be at 100% capacity instead of at 25%.
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It may be a new dawn, politically speaking, but it was just another busy Monday for courts across Tayside and Fife.
Threats at homeless service
A charity tin thief who once claimed he hurled abuse at police because they called him a “fat b ” has admitted causing a disturbance at a homeless hostel in Perth.
Barry McQuaid
Barry McQuaid threatened a resident at Greyfriars House on Friday after being told he had exposed himself to a woman.
The 34-year-old appeared from custody at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, likely to cause fear or alarm, by acting aggressively, shouting and swearing at the Princes Street establishment.
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