Boxing: PBC’s ESPN Broadcast Team Finalized

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The partnership between Premier Boxing Champions and ESPN has finalized its broadcast team for the upcoming PBC on ESPN boxing series, set to begin later this month. It was announced earlier today that Marysol Castro has been hired to fill the final spot for the team, which will air its first boxing event on July 11 from the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Fla.

Castro was the features correspondent for the weekend edition of “Good Morning America” on ABC until 2010, followed by a stint as a weather forecaster for “The Early Show” on CBS. Castro will be joined by long-time ESPN’s Friday Night Fights boxing commentators Teddy Atlas and Joe Tessitore -- who will call the fights ringside -- as well as Todd Grisham and Bernardo Osuna, both of whom will act as reporters. Nigel Collins, the former editor-in-chief of The Ring magazine, will serve as PBC on ESPN’s social media content provider and analyst.

It was also announced recently that Noche de Combate’s team of commentators will lead the PBC on ESPN coverage for ESPN Deportes.

The inaugural PBC on ESPN event will feature a 12-round welterweight showdown between unbeaten Keith “One Time” Thurman (25-0, 21 KOs) and Luis Collazo (36-6, 19 KOs). The Thurman-Collazo scrap will be preceded by an intriguing junior middleweight matchup between Tony Harrison (21-0, 18 KOs) and Willie Nelson (23-2-1, 13 KOs). The televised portion of the card will air live at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.

PBC on ESPN will return on Aug. 1 with unbeaten Danny Garcia (30-0, 17 KOs) taking on Paulie Malignaggi (33-6, seven KOs) in a welterweight skirmish. Co-headlining that marquee is a 160-pound encounter between Daniel Jacobs (29-1, 26 KOs) and Sergio Mora (28-3-2, nine KOs). That event will be held inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.