NO HOLDS BARRED

If you love boxing but are put off, disgusted, or even enraged by the endless string of overpriced, overhyped, mediocre, and piss-poor mismatches, meaningless fights, and utter garbage constantly, relentlessly, and shamelessly force-fed to the public by the promoters and TV networks, you can now have a reprieve from this pugilistic purgatory. Of course, it involves a fighter who ruled the boxing world a half-century ago, but we’ll take it, we’ll take it.

ESPN Classic – easily the best TV network for boxing – is premiering the latest edition of its Ringside series today, Sat., Feb. 25. Today’s episode in this series of six-hour specials features the boxer just about everyone agrees is the best pound-for-pound fighter of all time: Sugar Ray Robinson.

Here is the schedule, with all times ET, so check your local listings:
Sat, Feb. 25 12:00 pm
Sat, Feb. 25 6:00 pm
Sun, Feb. 26 12:00 am
Sun, Feb. 26 10:00 am

And don’t forget to get your video recorders ready.