HBO Will Stop Televising Boxing After 45 Years

FILE PHOTO: HBO logo is on display during an Apple event in San Francisco, California, U.S., March 9, 2015. Robert Galbraith/REUTERS

HBO Sports announced Sept.27 it is getting out of the boxing ring.

The network began televising live boxing in 1973 and has aired some of the most memorable fights of the past five decades, including George Foreman’s upset of heavyweight champ Joe Frazier that year and Buster Douglas’ stunning KO of Mike Tyson in 1990.