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NABC boxing championship bouts have been televised on HBO Boxing , ESPN2 Friday Night Fights and Fox Sports . Boxers who have fought for the NABC belt include Evander Holyfield , Félix Trinidad , Larry Donald , Ricardo Mayorga , Stevie Johnston , Joshua Clottey , Ian Gardner , and Damian Fuller . Promoters who have held NABC contests include Don King , Fred Berns , and Gary Shaw . On July 28, 2006, the NABC became the first professional boxing sanctioning body to sanction a Mixed Martial Arts bout when Jessie Chilton defeated Eddie Sanchez at Legends of Fighting 8 in Indianapolis to win the NABC 185lb MMA championship. The NABC produces its own MMA cards as NABC Extreme Fighting and sanctions individual bouts as NABC MMA title matches for other promoters. NABC mixed martial arts championship matches have been televised on the HDNet Friday Night Fight series as NABC Extreme Fighting and as individual title bouts on Cage Fury Fighting Championships pay per view broadcasts. The NABC maintains a MySpace page http://myspace.com/nabcboxing to allow fans of all combat sports to post public comments. NABC sanctioning of MMA matches and the implications for the future of professional boxing were examined in a NBC Sports story by Kenny Rice http://www.nabc.net/1566096.htm May 29, 2007. EXTERNAL LINKS
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