Where does the time go? Back in 1998 I was a much younger version of myself (weren't we all?) and I was a relative newbie on the boxing beat. And with that, I was an avid viewer of USA's 'Tuesday Night Fights'. Don't get me wrong, I had watched it as a fan, but I had really grown to appreciate what it meant to the sport as I began covering the game in ernest a couple of years earlier.Yeah, it was a real buzzkill when it was announced by the network that they would cancel the beloved series that summer.
It was recently it's 25th anniversary of it's last telecast which took place at the legendary Blue Horizon in Philadelphia (which seemed to serve as the unofficial home of the series). Which brought about a lot of fond memories from fans who miss 'TNF'.
Which brings a smile to the face of Brad Jacobs, who was the Programming Consultant for the series, and is now the COO of Top Rank.
"It's great," Jacobs told SNAC.com. "I mean, when you were living in the moment, we did very well, especially by today's standar
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