ESPN today announced it has picked up The Contender for another season. The third season will premiere Tuesday Sept 4 at 10PM EST on ESPN.
Sugar Ray Leonard will be returning, along with 16 fighters competing for $1 million in total prize money.
Produced by Mark Burnett of Survivor/Apprentice fame, the show originally debuted on NBC in 2005 to poor ratings, which many argued was more about bad scheduling than anything else. Upon moving to ESPN, however, it became one of the network’s highest rated boxing programs.