USA Tuesday Night Fights
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USA Tuesday Night Fights was a television boxing show. It aired from March 30, 1982 through 1998 on the USA Network; at one time it was the longest continually-running boxing show on television.
Few world title fights were presented in this show, one of the notable ones being when Vinny Paz, a former world Lightweight champion who had been written off boxing by doctors after a car accident a year before, returned to conquer the WBA world Jr. Middleweight championship with an eleventh round knockout of Gilbert Dele. Other shows included Roberto Duran's one hundredth fight, the returns of both George Foreman and Larry Holmes, and a show staged inside a marine aircraft carrier.
Many other world champions fought in this show, including Hector Camacho, Wilfred Benitez, Jorge Castro and Roy Jones Jr.. Julio César Chávez's eighth round knockout win over Joey Gamache on a pay-per-view event was re-casted on USA Tuesday Night Fights. USA Tuesday Night Fights was hosted by Al Albert and Sean The Champ O' Grady.
In June 2006, CSI Sports launched the USA Tuesday Night Fights Knockouts pay-per-view series, featuring replays of fights that were first broadcast on this show.
