07.02.07 – Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. is featured this week on Spike TV’s “Pros vs. Joes” on Thursday, February 8 at 10:00pm ET/PT. If Roy thought Glen Johnson was tough, wait until he goes up against 4 trash-talking, hard-hitting former couch potatoes…America’s most bold and outspoken armchair quarterbacks clearly haven’t learned their lesson from some of sports’ biggest names..
Spike TV premieres a new 10-episode season of the popular sports-themed reality series, Pros vs. Joes, featuring regular guys competing in a variety of sports against an incredible array of sports legends on Thursday, January 25 at 10:00-11:00pm ET/PT).
Season two of Pros vs. Joes features many of sports’ biggest and most talked-about athletes over the last twenty years. The impressive roster includes:
Michael Irvin, Eric Dickerson, Wade Boggs, Jose Canseco, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Winfield, Bruce Smith, Roy Jones Jr., Andre Reed, John Starks, Vince Coleman, Kordell Stewart, Andre Rison, Tim Hardaway, Grant Fuhr, Rob Dibble, Rik Smits, Will Clark, Spud Webb, Kevin Willis, Randy Couture, Mark Jackson, Claude Lemieux, Robby Ginepri, and Cobi Jones.
Pros vs. Joes was taped at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Ca. The series is hosted by former USC running back and Los Angeles sports television/radio personality, Petros Papadakis.
Season One (March-May, 2006) averaged a robust 1.0 household rating, with a 1.06 in M18-49, a 1.24 in M18-34 and an average audience of 1.1 million viewers.
Pros vs. Joes is produced by Mess Media and MY Entertainment. Serving as executive producers are Scott Messick, President, Mess Media; Michael Yudin, President of MY Entertainment; and Joe Townley. Sharon Levy and Tim Duffy are Executives in Charge of Production for Spike TV.
For an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of Pros vs. Joes, log onto spiketv.com which includes interviews with the show’s biggest stars such as Irvin, Canseco and Couture.
Spike TV is available in 91 million homes and is a division of MTV Networks. MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc.