ROC NATION SPORTS ANNOUNCES NON-TELEVISED UNDERCARD FIGHTS
FOR ANDRE WARD VS. SULLIVAN巴雷拉
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT SHOWDOWN ON 星期六, MARCH 26
AT甲骨文球館奧克蘭, CALIFORNIA
WARD VS. BARRERA AND JOSEPH DIAZ JR. VS. JAYSON VELEZ TELEVISED
LIVE ON HBO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® BEGINNING AT 9:45 P.M. AND/PT
SWAY CALLOWAY & DJ FRANZEN TO PROVIDE
IN-ARENA ENTERTAINMENT BETWEEN BOUTS
紐約, 紐約 (三月 14, 2016) – A slate of six non-televised undercard bouts will serve as support when Two-Time World Champion and top-rated pound-for-pound fighter 沃德 (28-0, 15 科斯) faces undefeated and number one rated IBF light heavyweight contender 沙利文巴雷拉 (17-0, 12 科斯) in a 12-round IBF number one position and mandatory position eliminator at Oracle Arena in Ward’s hometown of Oakland, California on March 26. Opening the HBO® telecast will be Joseph Diaz Jr. VS. Jayson Velez in a 10-round fight NABF Featherweight title fight.
In addition to the exciting televised lineup, some of boxing’s hottest rising stars will be featured on the non-televised undercard including Roc Nation Sports standouts 莫里斯·胡克（Maurice Hooker）, 丹尼爾·佛朗哥, Rudy Puga Jr. 和 Junior Younan 隨著 2008 Olympic Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist 張志磊 and local favorite 亞倫科萊 who will all see action on March 26.
Roc Nation Sports will bring names from the entertainment world to the event as well, including notable event emcee, SiriusXM/Shade 45 morning show host of Sway in the Morning, Executive Producer and talent for VH1 & MTV and Oakland-native 搖擺卡洛維, 誰將會成為該事件的主機, 和高手打 DJ弗倫岑, 駐場DJ拉斯維加斯熱 97.5 and Drais Nightclub. Sway and Franzen will entertain together throughout the night to keep fans entertained between bouts at Oracle Arena.
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上 三月 26, NABO Junior Welterweight Champion Maurice “Mighty Mo” Hooker (19-0-2, 14 科斯) risks his unbeaten record against Wilfrido “La Roca” Buelvas (17-5, 11 科斯) of Barranquilla, Colombia in a ten-round junior welterweight bout. Hooker, rated number seven by the WBO, is coming off of a career-best win on October 17, 2015 against his toughest opponent to date in Ghislain Maduma (17-2, 11 科斯) 在麥迪遜廣場花園. Hooker successfully defended his NABO title with the 10-round decision win over Maduma on the undercard of Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemieux in a fight that was featured on the event’s “freeview” in the United States and streamed online around the world. Buelvas, a former WBA Fedebol champion, has won two of his last three bouts by knockout and fought Humberto Soto for the WBC Silver International Super Lightweight title in 2014, going the 12-round distance before losing a decision to the former World Champion.
Born and raised in Oak Cliff, 得克薩斯州, a rough suburb of Dallas, Hooker found a boxing home at Maple Avenue Boxing Gym by way of an outreach program for at-risk youths. His natural talent was soon noticed resulting in him competing as an amateur, during which time he participated in over 100 打架, compiling a record of 97 勝只 7 損失, 同 67 victories coming by way of knockout. Hooker turned professional on April 29, 2011, taking on the vastly more experienced Tyrone Chatman (7-1, 5 KO的) at the Orpheum Theater in St. 聖路易斯. After four rounds, the judges saw the fight 40-36, 37-39 和 38-38, making the fight a split draw. Undeterred, in his next fight on June 24, 2014, Hooker scored his first professional win, knocking out Wilbert Mitchell in the first round at the Dr. Pepper Arena in Frisco, 得克薩斯州. Eleven wins (eight by knockout) later, he took on undefeated Abel Ramos (8-0, 4 KO的) 一月 17, 2014 in a bout that was featured on ShoBox from the Cook Convention Center in Memphis. After eight close, hard-fought rounds, the judges saw the fight a draw. Hooker followed the draw with a six-round unanimous decision win over Adrian Rodriguez Garza (8-2, 6 KO的) 上 四月 26 at Fitzgerald’s Casino and Hotel in Tunica, 密西西比. Four consecutive knockout victories would follow before he took on fellow undefeated prospect Eduardo Galindo (10-0-1, 7 KO的) 六月 26, 2015 at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in Dallas for the vacant NABO Junior Welterweight Championship. “Mighty Mo” did not disappoint his legion of hometown fans who saw him capture the title with a sixth round technical knockout victory.
Hailing from Rancho Cucamonga, 加利福尼亞州和戰鬥了奧克斯納德的拳擊溫床, 不敗 丹尼爾“抽搐”佛朗哥 (12-0-3, 7 KO的) meets Mexican veteran German “Panteonero” Meraz(52-37-1, 30 科斯) in an eight-round featherweight bout on 三月 26. Featured for the second time on a Ward undercard, the sharp-boxing Franco will look to improve on his undefeated record against an opponent with literally six times his pro boxing experience. Meraz is only 29 years old but has already logged an amazing 90 professional bouts and has won four of his last six fights by knockout. He has fought current World Champion Juan Carlos Payano, Three-Time U.S. Olympian Rau’shee Warren and highly-touted prospect Gervonta Davis, going the distance with all three.
Franco began boxing at the age of eight, 積累的業餘紀錄 67-15, 贏得奧克斯納德PAL錦標賽 2006 並在加利福尼亞州銀手套錦標賽 2007 沿途. 在佛朗哥的專業首演於十二月 18, 2010, 他擊敗了伊曼紐爾在Machorro俱樂部 401 安大略, 通過第三輪技術擊倒加州. 儘管被錄取為全日制學生在查菲學院在Rancho Cucamonga, 佛朗哥留下深刻的印象在他早期的職業生涯, 編譯不敗的紀錄，兩場平局在整個場地由加州的結束 2013. 其中之一平局來了反對亞歷杭德羅·奧喬亞在蒙特貝羅安靜炮, 加州在九月 20, 2013, but in a rematch three months later, 佛朗哥蟲對抗奧喬亞打進了六輪一致決定勝利在威斯汀酒店文德洛杉磯. 六月 20, 2015, during Ward’s return to the ring at Oracle Arena, Franco saw action in an eight-round junior lightweight bout against Jonathan Alcantara and won by unanimous decision. A hand injury suffered in that bout kept Franco out of action until 十二月 21when he scored a decision victory over Hector Garcia in Tijuana, 墨西哥.
A promising unbeaten prospect from Salinas, 加利福尼亞州, Rudy “The Revelation” Puja. JR. (7-0, 6 科斯)looks to extend his undefeated streak against Carlos “Kalimba” Lozano (7-5, 4 科斯) of Ensenada, Mexico in a six-round middleweight bout. Puga turned in a career-best performance in his last match-up on February 12 in knocking out Alejandro Osuna (4-2, 2 KO的) in two rounds at the Double Tree Hotel in Ontario, 加利福尼亞州. 現在, just a little over a month later, “The Revelation” will step into the ring against a tough opponent in Lozanao, a southpaw who has never been stopped and already has a ten-round decision victory under his belt.
Having compiled an exceptional amateur record of 99-8, Puga made his professional debut on September 2, 2011, scoring a fourth round technical knockout victory over Raul Talamontes at the Sports Complex in his hometown. Back in the ring less than two months later, Puga Jr. raised his record to 2-0 with a first round technical knockout of Jose Jesus Hurtado at the Sherwood Inn in Salinas. 六月 2012, he sent Thomas Turner to the mat four times in scoring a second round technical knockout win at the Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, 內華達. After a little more than a year away from the ring, he rededicated himself to the “sweet science” with a vengeance and on February 17, 2014, Puga Jr. made his comeback stopping Charon Spain in the third round with an overpowering body shot at the Salinas Storm House in his native Salinas. Promotional issues kept Puga Jr. out of the ring for the next year and injuries led to a slow 2015, but Puga Jr. scored a a fourth round technical knockout win over of Katrell Straus on 四月 24 and a six-round unanimous decision over Juan Carlos Rojas on 十一月 21, both fights taking place at the Double Tree Hotel in Ontario, 加利福尼亞州.
Brooklyn’s 20-year-old, 不敗 Junior “The Young God” Younan (7-0, 6 KO的) 返回到環上 三月 26 after a nine-month layoff to take on Cristian Solorzano (4-7, 3 科斯) 索諾拉, Mexico in a four-round super middleweight fight. Younan has battled multiple nagging injuries since scoring a second round technical knockout victory over Mike Sawyer on the Miguel Cotto vs. Daniel Geale undercard on June 6, 2015 在巴克萊中心布魯克林, 紐約. 現在 100 ％的健康, Younan looks to make Solozano his third straight knockout victim. Solorzano, a naturally bigger fighter, has campaigned in the light heavyweight division and is coming off of a knockout win.
Younan, trained by his father Sherif, a former professional boxer himself, began fighting competitively at age eight and only two years later was called a “boxing prodigy” by the New York Times. He compiled an amateur record of 90-5, racking up an impressive series of titles along the way including nine Junior Olympic championships, nine Junior Metro championships, eight New York State Silver Gloves championships and five Regional Silver Gloves championships. 在 2011, he was crowned National Junior Golden Gloves champion and was U.S.A. Boxing’s number one rated junior boxer in his weight class. Less than a month after his 18日 生日, Younan made his professional debut on November 9, 2013, at the Aviator Sports and Events Center in Brooklyn, 紐約, stopping Kenneth Schmitz in the first round. Younan would go on to knockout his next three opponents before going the distance for the first time against Azamat Umarzoda on July 2, 2014 在康州快活大賭場在馬山, 康涅狄格. He followed that fight with a first round knockout of Marlon Farr on 八月 13 the BB King Blues Club and Grill in New York on 八月 13.
Chinese heavyweight Zhang “Big Bang” Zhilei (7-0, 4 科斯) joins the undercard on 三月 26 in a four-round bout against an opponent yet to be determined. The Silver Medalist from the 2008 Beijing Olympics continues to infuse excitement into the heavyweight division and is coming off of a first round technicalknockout win over David Koswara on February 20 at the Lanzhou Sports Arena in Lanzhou, 中國.
Born on May 2, 1983 in Henan, Zhang began his amateur career in 2003, participating in the World Championships. A breakthrough came in 2007 at the World Championships where Zhang defeated the trio of Nurpais Torobekov, Rustam Rygebayev and Daniel Beahan en route to the semifinals where he lost to Ukrainian Vyacheslav Glazkov. By capturing a bronze medal and finishing the competition in third place, he qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The Chinese powerhouse nearly reached the zenith of amateur success in the summer of 2008, entering the super heavyweight finals at the Summer Olympics in Beijing against Italy’s Roberto Cammarelle. It was not to be as Zhang suffered his first defeat of that Olympiad, losing to Cammarelle, but proudly adding to the host country’s medal total with a Silver. 在 2009, Zhang captured a gold medal at the China National Games, an event of equal prestige to the Olympics in China. 2013 saw yet another gold medal winning performance in the China National Games, setting the stage for “Big Bang” to embark on a professional career while basing himself in the United States. 八月 8, 2014, Zhang made his professional debut by scoring a first-round knockout win over Curtis Lee Tate in Fallon, Nevada in a fight that was televised live on ESPN2. 三月 14, 2015, Zhang beat Eric George via a four-round unanimous decision at the Armory in Jersey City, 新澤西州. He followed that with another four-round unanimous decision win, this time over Glenn Thomas on the highly anticipated Cotto-Geale undercard at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on 六月 6. Next came a sixth round technical knockout win over Dennis Benson at The Playground in Atlantic City on 八月 15. To end the year, Zhang was featured on the undercard of the 十一月 21 庫托與. Canelo mega-fight at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, where scored a four-round unanimous decision victory over Juan Goode.
本地海沃德, 加州最愛 亞倫科萊 (12-1-1, 6 KO的) faces a very stern test in a six-round junior middleweight bout against 其次Ryskeldiev (11-3-2, 7 科斯) of West Hollywood, 加利福尼亞州, a Kyrgyzstan native who is undefeated in his last seven fights.
上 三月 26, Coley will look follow his most recent victory, a unanimous decision over Jeremy Ramos on一月 23 at the Marriott on Broadway in Oakland, with another win in front of his hometown fans. Prior to his January win he scored two unanimous decision triumphs, including his June 20, 2015 performance against Yusmani Abreu (who Ryskeldiev defeated by technical knockout in September) on the undercard of Ward’s last fight. Considered a promising prospect in boxing circles, Coley’s lone loss came via decision to one of boxing’s hottest prospects in Ievgen Khytrov in a bout that was televised live on Showtime’s ShoBox on April 10, 2015 from The Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn, 紐約.
沃德VS. 巴雷拉, a 12-round fight which is presented by Roc Nation Sports in association with Main Events, 發生星期六, 三月 26, 2016 在甲骨文球館奧克蘭, California and is sponsored byCorona Extra, 特瑪, 商務旅行管理解決方案 (CTMS), 高興, 吊裝, Zappos的, BodyArmor, SAN營養, Shoe Palace and The Waterfront Hotel. 本次活動將住在HBO世界拳擊錦標賽開始進行電視轉播在 9:45 P.M. AND/PT. 打開HBO轉播將是約瑟夫·迪亞茲JR. VS. 傑森在貝萊斯為NABF羽量級冠軍10輪的戰鬥中協會金童推廣帶有米格爾·庫托促銷.
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