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Unbeaten Polish Heavyweight Adam Kownacki Faces Massachusetts’ Jesse Barboza While Undefeated Rising Star Heather Hardy Battles Colorado’s Kirstie SimmonsSâmbătă la Barclays Center din Brooklyn
Mai Mult! Puerto Rican Prospect Nicklaus Flaz Added to Stacked Undercard
BROOKLYN (Iunie 21, 2016) – The stacked undercard for the highly anticipated Keith Thurman vs. Shawn Porter welterweight showdown is complete and will feature a pair of popular Brooklyn fighters as heavyweight Adam Kownacki (13-0, 10 KO) battles hard-hitting Jesse Barboza (11-1-1, 7 KO) in an eight-round bout while crowd-pleasing featherweight Buruiană “Căldură” Rezistent (16-0, 4 KO) takes on Colorado’s Kirstie Simmons (8-1, 2 KO) in an eight-round contest on Sâmbătă, Iunie 25de la Barclays Center.
The Iunie 25 SHOWTIME Campionatul BOX® on CBS event, presented by Premier Boxing Champions, is headlined by the world title fight between defending world champion Keith Thurman și fostul campion Shawn Porter. Acoperire televizate începe la 9 p.m. ȘI/6 p.m. PT. The live telecast will open with an exciting battle between undefeated super welterweight prospects Jarrett Hurd și Oscar Molina.
Additional undercard action features unbeaten prospect Jonathan Alonso taking on Los Angeles native Brian Jones in a junior welterweight match, Bronx native Josue Vargas opposing Oklahoma’s David Nelson in a four-round welterweight bout and a recent addition to the card, Puerto Rico Nicklaus Flaz, in a four-round junior middleweight battle against Brooklyn’s Mack Babb.
Completed matchups that were previously announced include fast-rising prospect David Benavidez (14-0, 13 KO) luând în francy Ntetu (16-0, 3 KO) in an eight-round light heavyweight bout and unbeaten junior welterweight Regis Prograis (17-0, 14 KO) contra Luis Eduardo Flores (21-3, 17 KO) într-un meci de 10-a rundă.
Biletele pentru evenimentul live, care este promovat de Dibella Entertainment, încep de la $49 și sunt în vânzare acum. Biletele pot fi achizitionate on-line, vizitând www.ticketmaster.com, www.barclayscenter.com sau prin apel 1-800-745-3000. Biletele sunt, de asemenea, disponibile la Biroul de Box American Express la Barclays Center. Reduceri pentru grupuri sunt disponibile prin apel la 844-bklyn-GP. A popular Brooklyn fighter who competed in Barclays Center’s first-ever professional female boxing match, Hardy a devenit un discontinue de la arena de la. Pe Iunie 25, she will be making her seventh appearance at Barclays Center. Un pic peste doi ani de la debutul pro, Hardy a castigat o centură internațional titlu în divizia super-cocoș, în octombrie 2014. În 2015, she defeated Noemi Bosques and Renata Domsodi twice. In her lone 2016 luptă, she stopped Anna Donatella Hultin in the fourth round. She will be opposed by Aurora, Colorado’s Simmons who has won nine fights in a row after losing her pro debut.
A two-time New York Golden Gloves champion, Kownacki had a big 2015, notching four victories including knockouts of Maurenzo Smith and Randy Easton. Born in Lomza, Polonia, the 26-year-old now calls Brooklyn home. His 2016 campaign began in January at Barclays Center when he defeated Danny Kelly in front of a raucous Polish crowd. He will take on Barboza out of Hyannis, Massachusetts. The 29-year-old Barboza was a three-time New England Heavyweight Golden Gloves champion.
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