SHOWTIME SPORTS® HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE NETWORK’S FREE PREVIEW WEEKEND STARTING THIS FRIDAY, JAN. 6

Posted on | January 4, 2012 | No Comments

Offerings Include Replays of A Game of Honor,

Live Boxing On Friday,

And Live STRIKEFORCE MMA On Saturday

NEW YORK (Jan. 4, 2012) — SHOWTIME® will be available in a record 60 million households duringFree Preview Weekend that features two live events from SHOWTIME Sports beginning this Friday,Jan. 6.

From Friday to Sunday, Jan. 8, viewers across the country will have the opportunity to sample the premium network’s award-winning programming on SHOWTIME, SHOWTIME HD™ and SHOWTIMEOn Demand^®.

The acclaimed documentary film produced in conjunction with CBS Sports, A GAME OF HONOR, will be available this weekend on SHOWTIME (Sat. at 9:15a ET/PT), on SHOWTIME Extreme^® (Fri. at 11p ET/PT) and via SHOWTIME On Demand (throughout the weekend).

The live sports offering includes professional boxing and mixed martial arts. On Friday, four promising boxers will be featured on ShoBox: The New Generation (11 p.m., ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast). In the main event of a doubleheader, undefeated Luis Ramos of Santa Ana, Calif., faces Mexico’s Raymundo Beltran. A bout between unbeatens Michael Perez and Omar Figueroa Jr. will open the telecast from Indio, Calif.

On Saturday, live Strikeforce MMA fights will be televised on both SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) and SHO Extreme (8 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast). STRIKEFORCE middleweight champion Luke Rockhold of San Jose, Calif. will defend his title against Keith Jardineof Albuquerque, N.M. in the main event of a five-fight show on SHOWTIME from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. And, for the first time, preliminary bouts will be televised live on SHO Extreme in anew series titled STRIKEFORCE EXTREME.

This week’s episode of the Emmy® award-winning Inside The NFL will air several times during the weekend on SHOWTIME and SHO Extreme. It can be seen the first two times at 7 p.m. ET/PT and 10 p.m. ET/PT on Friday on SHO Extreme, one day before the NFL playoffs begin.