USA Tuesday Night Fights is a television boxing

Boxing

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 show. It aired from October 1, 1982 through August 25, 1998 on the USA Network

USA Network

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; at one time it was the longest continually-running boxing show on television.

USA Tuesday Night Fights was hosted by Al Albert and former lightweight champion Sean O'Grady.

Notable fights

Few world title fights were presented in this show, one of the notable ones being when Vinny Pazienza, a former world Lightweight champion, moved up in weight and captured the WBA

World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...

 world Jr. Middleweight championship with an eleventh round knockout of Gilbert Dele

Gilbert Delé

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. Pazienza would ultimately relinquish the title following a car accident the following year. Written off from boxing by doctors after the accident, Pazienza would return to the ring with a win over Luis Santana, a fight which also aired on Tuesday Night Fights.

Other shows included Roberto Durán

Roberto Durán

Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career....

's one hundredth fight, the returns of both George Foreman

George Foreman

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 and Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes is a former professional boxer. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which gave birth to his boxing nickname, The Easton Assassin....

, and a show staged inside a marine aircraft carrier.

Other world champions to fight on the show

Many other world champions fought on this show, including Oscar de La Hoya

Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

, Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. is an American professional boxer. He is a five-division world champion, where he has won seven world titles, as well as the lineal championship in three different weight classes...

, Roy Jones Jr.

Roy Jones Jr.

Roy Jones, Jr. is an American boxer. As a professional he has captured numerous world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight divisions...

, Arturo Gatti

Arturo Gatti

Arturo "Thunder" Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer. Born in Cassino, Italy, and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Gatti relocated to Jersey City, United States as a teenager...

, Fernando Vargas

Fernando Vargas

Fernando Vargas is a retired Mexican American boxer and two-time world champion, who won a bronze medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. His nicknames include "Ferocious", "The Aztec Warrior" and "El Feroz"...

, Hector Camacho

Héctor Camacho

Héctor Camacho , nicknamed "Macho Camacho", is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. His son, Héctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer.- Early life and amateur career :...

 and Antonio Tarver

Antonio Tarver

Antonio Deon Tarver , nicknamed the "Magic Man", is a professional boxer from Orlando, Florida and the former WBC, WBA, IBF, & The Ring light heavyweight champion....

. Championship Pay Per View bouts were also recast on the show such as Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...

's eighth round knockout win over Joey Gamache

Joey Gamache

Joey Gamache, , was a professional boxer. Gamache is the former WBA Super Featherweight, and WBA Lightweight Champion.At the age of 10, playing third base in Little League, he tended to loop his throws to first...

.

Rebroadcasts

In June 2006, CSI Sports launched the USA Tuesday Night Fights Knockouts pay-per-view series, featuring replays of fights that were first broadcast on this show.

See also

• Friday Night Fights (a television boxing show airing on ESPN2
  ESPN2
  ESPN2 is an American sports cable television network owned by ESPN. The channel debuted on October 1, 1993.Originally nicknamed "the deuce," ESPN2 was initially branded as a network for a younger generation of sports fans featuring edgier graphics as well as extreme sports like motocross,...
  
  from 1998–present)

External links

• Info on the USA Tuesday Night Fights Knockouts pay-per-view series