Pay-Per-View Show Featuring Chavez and Norris Is Postponed

The Dec. 5 pay-per-view boxing tripleheader at Las Vegas featuring Julio Cesar Chavez and Terry Norris has been postponed indefinitely, promoters announced Wednesday.

Showtime Event Television (SET), the pay-per-view arm of Showtime, and promoter Don King were locked in a stare-down with HBO, which had previously scheduled a Dec. 5 show of its own, featuring James Toney, Iran Barkley and Roy Jones.

On Wednesday, SET blinked.

“The show will not be rescheduled for December,” SET said in an announcement sent to U.S. cable operators. “But hopefully (it can be rescheduled) for another date in early 1993.”

Two reasons were given for the postponement--HBO’s refusal to give up its Dec. 5 date and the fact there was another pay-per-view boxing show that month, a Dec. 12 Bob Arum show at Phoenix.

The SET/King show had included Chavez vs. Greg Haugen, Norris vs. Simon Brown and Michael Nunn vs. Victor Cordoba.

HBO’s Dec. 5 offering features Toney vs. Doug DeWitt, Barkley vs. Tyrone Frazier and Jones vs. Percy Harris.

For Norris, it marked the second consecutive postponement of his match with Brown. The two were to meet Sept. 26 in Las Vegas, but Brown was hospitalized on the day of the match with chest pains and vertigo and the bout was postponed.