ESPN Deportes boxing analyst Claudia Trejos, foreground, and bureau producer David Satlin prepare to file a report from Brisbane.
Saturday, July 1, Manny “Pac Man” Pacquiao will defend his WBO welterweight title in “Battle of Brisbane” against Jeff Horn in a bout airing exclusively on ESPN and ESPN Deportes (9 p.m. ET).
ESPN Deportes’ boxing expert Claudia Trejos (see video below) is among those from ESPN on site and providing reporting and commentary for ESPN’s English and Spanish-language coverage. In this gallery, she shares some of her behind-the-scenes perspectives reporting from Brisbane, Australia.
ESPN’s coverage includes a live presentation of the Pacquiao and Horn weigh-in tonight at 7 ET within SportsCenter on ESPN and within Golpe a Golpe on ESPN Deportes.
For more behind-the-scenes perspectives on ESPN’s reporting on Pacquaio-Horn, read the sidebar on this Joe Tessitore interview – Tessitore is calling the bout for ESPN with boxing analyst Teddy Atlas and guest analyst Timothy Bradley. And read the sidebar in Front Row’s Journalism Showcase that features an interview with ESPN Australia assistant editor/reporter Jake Michaels, who also interviews Atlas.
Santa Brito contributed to this post.
Trejos joined ESPN in 2007 as, among other roles, a boxing commentator.
Trejos is featured in this ESPN Deportes promo.
¿Ya conoces a @ClaudiaTrejos? Experta en boxeo y desde Australia te trae toda acción de la #PacquiaoHorn. Síguela sus redes sociales. #FF pic.twitter.com/LGAg4Julbk
— ESPN Deportes (@ESPNDeportes) June 30, 2017
From Brisbane, ESPN boxing analysts Timothy Bradley (L) and Teddy Atlas share their thoughts on the fight with Joe Tessitore (R), who will call the fight with them.
"Horn has to hurt him" Teddy Atlas said. #ESPNCaribbeanhttps://t.co/yU6ooKTdvp https://t.co/jeRC6xBCjj pic.twitter.com/X75umEFHx4
— ESPN Caribbean (@ESPN_Caribbean) June 29, 2017
ESPN boxing writer Dan Rafael leads the company’s digital coverage.
Saturday on ESPN, Pacquiao and Horn fight for a title.@danrafaelespn on the biggest bout in Australia's history: https://t.co/tNbXsVFc2f
— ESPN (@espn) June 29, 2017
Trejos works on her scripts.
Joe Tessitore, who will call the fight for ESPN, flanks Trejos in this Twitter post taken in Brisbane.
Llegando a #Brisbane y entrando a la conferencia de prensa para #BattleofBrisbane. Julio 1. #pachorn En vivo pic.twitter.com/rnU05zSMQG
— Claudia Trejos (@ClaudiaTrejos) June 28, 2017