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Andy Ruiz v Joseph Parker Lands on HBO

Published

November 19, 2016

Michael Woods

The battle between undefeated contenders Joseph Parker and Andy Ruiz, Jr., for a heavyweight title, will open the December 10 HBO World Championship Boxing telecast, headlined by the Terence Crawford – John Molina Jr. Jr. welterweight championship fight at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha.

Parker (21-0, 18 KOs), from Auckland, New Zealand and Ruiz (29-0, 19 KOs), of Mexico.

The fight will take place in New Zealand on December 10 and be seen via tape delay on HBO, beginning at 9:35 p.m. ET/PT, followed immediately by the live telecast of Crawford vs. Molina.

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Founder/editor Michael Woods got addicted to boxing in 1990, when Buster Douglas shocked the world with his demolition of the then-impregnable Mike Tyson. The Brooklyn-based journalist has covered the sport since for ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, Bad Left Hook and RING. His journalism career started with NY Newsday in 1999. Michael Woods is also an accomplished blow by blow and color man, having done work for Top Rank, DiBella Entertainment, EPIX, and for Facebook Fightnight Live, since 2017.