[1] On July 2, 1921, NBC's future owner RCA and its Hoboken, New Jersey, radio station WJY presented live coverage of the Jack Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier heavyweight title fight.
In the first major sporting event to be broadcast to a regional audience, ringside announcer J. Andrew White called Dempsey's fourth-round knockout victory.
Emanating from Yankee Stadium in New York City, Bill Stern provided the blow-by-blow commentary for the fight between Lou Nova and Max Baer.
Two years later on June 25, NBC SportsWorld aired Sugar Ray Leonard's victory in the ninth round against Ayub Kalule[3] to become the WBA World Light Middleweight champion.
In what would become NBC's final prime time boxing broadcast for 30 years, Dick Enberg[6] hosted while Marv Albert provided blow-by-blow coverage with analyst Ferdie Pacheco.
NBCSN's Fight Night series premiered on January 21, 2012, from 2300 Arena in Philadelphia with Kenny Rice and trainer Freddie Roach were on the call and Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated was the reporter and researcher.
Marv Albert's performance was panned, noting that he "[missed] a lot of the action", along with Steve Farhood's lack of contributions beyond scoring the fights.
"[18] Bleacher Report was similarly mixed, describing the atmosphere as being too "sterile" for a sport that "thrives on chaos", and that "the bland short walks to the ring and generic music presenting the fighters as interchangeable automatons [are] more NFL than WWE.