You can’t keep a good champion down, and Crystina Poncher is back where many fight fans feel she certainly belongs.
Popular professional boxer and reality star, Jake Paul, is certainly not one to sit idle while he plots out his own next in-ring moves. His burgeoning MVPW (“Most Valuable Promotions”), the new platform that showcases female fighters, is loading the decks outside the ropes.
Good news for fight fans: experienced, talented, and very popular announcer Crystina Poncher will be behind the mic to deliver the action.
California-native Poncher, a married mother of 2, is no stranger to fight fans, having been a mainstay ringside for Top Rank Boxing on ESPN for years.
Poncher started her foray into boxing with a vast sports experience base, having worked for Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket, the NFL Network, among others.
Considered a ground-breaking personality when she first started with Top Rank, she is now an experienced industry veteran who has earned respect industry-wide for the passion and knowledge she brings to the sport.
When ESPN and Top Rank came to the end of their last deal, things came to a halt for many of the Top Rank team, with no network platform in place. With Top Rank recently signing on with DAZN, their ESPN time came to an official end.
MVP has media rights contracts with ESPN in the U.S. and Sky Sports in the U.K. Poncher, who has called some of boxing’s biggest fights in the sport’s biggest arenas, was a great fit for MVP.
Poncher will be busy right out of the gate, calling the U.S. feed of this weekend’s card in London for ESPN+ and then on April 17 for a card at MSG in New York.
Along with Poncher, former world champion Raul Marquez will be doing color commentary, and journalist Corey Erdman will be a ringside analyst.
They will be joined by ringside reporter Ariel Helwani, MMA commentator Sean Wheelock, who will handle rules and scoring, and Kody “Big Mo” Mommaerts will be the voice in the ring.
With the players in place, Poncher is excited to get back at it.
“I’m glad to have a new home”, she said. “It’s official, the next chapter begins, leading the charge for MVPW on ESPN. Let’s do this”.