Podcast listeners heard Scott Christ and I freak out earlier this week during the upcoming October weekends with no televised boxing. It seems we panicked too soon, because Triller stepped in to fill at least one gap in the schedule with a live show on October 22nd and a FITE broadcast called ‘LINEAGE OF GREATNESS II’.
The show takes place at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas, and features four notable sons of boxing:
Kenzie “TCB” Morrison (20-0, 18 KOs), heavyweight, sired by heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison José Luis Castillo Jr (24-3, 18 KOs), junior lightweight, sired by two-time lightweight champion José Luis Castillo Roberto Durán Jr (9-2, 7 KOs), welterweight, sired by four-division world champion Roberto Duran Steve Cunningham Jr (debut), middleweight, sired by two-time cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham
Morrison is the headliner and a veteran of at least three other shows at Memorial Hall. His most recent outing was another event at FITE in April, where he knocked out the “now infamous Hasim Rahman Jr.”, as the press release describes it.
Triller representatives told Bad Left Hook that the event will be available as a FITE PPV or through the FITE+ subscription package. No opponents have been announced yet, but the sons are the stars, and there’s still a month to book their challengers and any additional supporting fights.
To put it diplomatically, this has been an inconsistent year when it comes to Triller actually delivering on booked and scheduled events. But this one comes from Ares Entertainment, a promoter with a long history of running similar shows throughout the Midwest, and it fills a huge gap in the boxing calendar. If you are like Scott and need to box on Saturdays to put order in your schedule and purpose in your existence? The Fighting Sons of Triller just saved your October 22 weekend.
And, without pretending to tell Triller how to run his business… If we don’t have a Michael Buffer Jr or a Jimmy Lennon Jr handling in-ring ad duties, are we really making the most of this opportunity?
