HBO 'Pivoting Away' From Professional Boxing The executive vice president of HBO Sports made the announcement in a meeting with the HBO boxing staff. Peter Nelson, the executive vice president of HBO Sports, Via 'The New York Times' Live boxing programming on HBO will be non-existent in 2019. The network televised its first boxing match 45 years ago. The match was in 1973 with George Foreman’s iconic knockout of Joe Frazier.
