Muhammad Ali, Evander Holyfield, Jake “Raging
Bull” LaMotta, Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, Jim “Cinderella Man”
Braddock Fight Footage and More
Sports fans can experience the
excitement of boxing’s fiercest rivalries past and present when ESPN
Home Entertainment, in conjunction with Genius Products,
LLC, brings all the heart-pounding, cringe-inducing action of the
sport’s greatest matchups to DVD. A special two-disc “Slugfest” edition,
ESPN Ringside Rivalries features legendary showdowns such
as Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier and Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Jake “Raging Bull”
LaMotta as they slugged their way to becoming champions of the world. The DVDs
will hit stores nationwide Tuesday, May 27,
available for $27.95 SRP.
“Ringside
Rivalries contains the most electrifying bouts the sport has ever
seen,” said Tori Stevens, vice president, ESPN Home Entertainment and Branded
Experiences. “We dug deep into the ESPN Classic archives to give fans the best
of boxing with this comprehensive collection of fight footage, expert analysis
and commentary.”
The two-disc set features insight
and commentary from ESPN’s Brian Kenny, Burt Randolph Sugar and a panel of
boxing experts. Bonus materials include the sensational Ali vs. Frazier
“Thrilla in Manila” and the brutal LaMotta vs. Robinson “St. Valentine’s Day
Massacre” championship bouts, complete and uncut.
Trevor Drinkwater, CEO of Genius
Products Inc., said, “The truly great rivalries transcend sports. Like
Yankees-Red Sox or Duke-North Carolina, this DVD shows why these celebrated
showdowns have achieved mythic status. With big-time fighters, non-stop action
and hard-hitting drama, Ringside Rivalries gives fans
everything they could ask for.”
In support of the
Ringside Rivalries DVD release, Genius Products and
ESPN Home Entertainment are promoting two previously released Ringside titles –
Ringside Mike Tyson and Ringside Top Ten
Heavyweights - at a reduced price of $27.95
SRP.
Synopsis
Many of boxing’s all-time marquee
matchups are on tap when ESPN Classic presents Ringside Rivalries.
From the “Thrilla in Manila” to the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” (immortalized
in the classic film Raging Bull) to Evander Holyfield’s battles with
Riddick Bowe, these epic encounters transcended the sport and became legend.
Featuring more than four hours of two-fisted fight footage plus blow-by-blow
commentary from Brian Kenny, Burt Randolph Sugar and a celebrated panel of
boxing experts, Ringside Rivalries is an explosive two-disc DVD
collection jam-packed with knockout punches and hard-hitting
controversy.
Catalog #: 81191
UPC #:
796019811910
ISBN #:
1-594-45076-5
Run Time: Approx 260
min
About ESPN Home
Entertainment
ESPN Home Entertainment, a division
of ESPN Enterprises, is a leader in providing sports fans with quality home
entertainment products, including critically acclaimed movies, documentaries and
instructional DVDs. ESPN Home Entertainment is one of many business units
within ESPN, Inc., the world’s leading multinational, multimedia sports
entertainment company featuring a portfolio of over 50 multimedia sports assets.
About Genius
Products
Genius Products, Inc. (OTCBB:GNPI - News), along with The
Weinstein Company Holdings LLC, together owns Genius Products, LLC, a leading
independent home-entertainment distribution company that produces, licenses and
distributes a valuable library of motion pictures, television programming,
family, lifestyle and trend entertainment on DVD and other emerging platforms
through its expansive network of retailers throughout the U.S. Genius handles
the distribution, marketing and sales for such brands as Animal Planet, Asia
Extreme™, Discovery Kids, Dragon Dynasty™, Dimension
Films™, Entertainment Rights group companies (Entertainment Rights,
Classic Media and Big Idea), ESPN®, IFC®, RHI Entertainment™, Sesame
Workshop®, TLC, The Weinstein Company® and WWE®. Genius Products, Inc. is the
managing member of Genius Products, LLC, in which it holds a 30% equity
interest.
