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 ORACLE ARENA IN OAKLAND, 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
纽约, 纽约 (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）, 丹尼尔·佛朗哥, Rudy Puga Jr. 和 少年尤南 随着 2008 Olympic Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist 张志磊 and local favorite 亚伦科莱 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 摇摆卡洛维, 谁将会成为该事件的主机, 和高手打 DJ弗伦岑, 驻场DJ拉斯维加斯热 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 青少年次中量级冠军 莫里斯“强大的莫”胡克 (19-0-2, 14 科斯) risks his unbeaten record against Wilfrido “La Roca” Buelvas (17-5, 11 科斯) 巴兰基亚, Colombia in a ten-round junior welterweight bout. 妓女, 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) 在麦迪逊广场花园. 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, 得克萨斯州, 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, 编制记录 97 胜只 7 损失, 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. 圣路易斯. 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, 得克萨斯州. Eleven wins (eight by knockout) 后来, 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, 加利福尼亚州和战斗了奥克斯纳德的拳击温床, 不败 丹尼尔“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, 积累的业余纪录 67-15, 赢得奥克斯纳德PAL锦标赛 2006 并在加利福尼亚州银手套锦标赛 2007 沿途. 在佛朗哥的专业首演于十二月 18, 2010, 他击败了伊曼纽尔在Machorro俱乐部 401 安大略, 通过第三轮技术击倒加州. 尽管被录取为全日制学生在查菲学院在Rancho Cucamonga, 佛朗哥留下深刻的印象在他早期的职业生涯, 编译不败的纪录，两场平局在整个场地由加州的结束 2013. 其中之一平局来了反对亚历杭德罗·奥乔亚在蒙特贝罗安静炮, 加州在九月 20, 2013, but in a rematch three months later, 佛朗哥虫对抗奥乔亚打进了六轮一致决定胜利在威斯汀酒店文德洛杉矶. 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, 加利福尼亚州, 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) 恩塞纳达, 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, 加利福尼亚州. 现在, 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. 在六月 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, 内华达. 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, 加利福尼亚州.
Brooklyn’s 20-year-old, 不败 Junior “The Young God” Younan (7-0, 6 KO的) 返回到环上 三月 26 after a nine-month layoff to take on Cristian Solorzano (4-7, 3 科斯) 索诺拉, 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 在巴克莱中心布鲁克林, 纽约. 现在 100 健康百分比, 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.
尤南, 经过培训由他的父亲谢里夫, 一位前职业拳击手自己, began fighting competitively at age eight and only two years later was called a “boxing prodigy” by the New York Times. 他编写的业余纪录 90-5, 费尽了令人印象深刻的一系列头衔以及包括九家少年奥林匹克锦标赛的方式, 9少年地铁锦标赛, 八个新的纽约州银手套冠军和5个区域银手套冠军. 在 2011, 他被加冕全国青少年金手套冠军，是美国. 拳击的头号额定少年拳击手在他的重量级别. 一个多月后减了 18日 生日, 尤南上月他的专业首演 9, 2013, 在布鲁克林的飞行员体育和活动中心, 纽约, 在第一轮停肯尼思·施米茨. 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 在康州快活大赌场在马山, 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 张“生活大爆炸”张志磊 (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, 中国.
Born on May 2, 1983 in Henan, Zhang began his amateur career in 2003, 参加世锦赛. 一个突破是在 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, 等于威望奥运会在中国的事件. 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, 张在法伦得分第一轮淘汰赛战胜柯蒂斯李大老他的专业首演, 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, 新泽西州. 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 库托与. 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, 加州最爱 亚伦科莱 (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, 加利福尼亚州, 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, 纽约.
Ward vs. 巴雷拉, a 12-round fight which is presented by Roc Nation Sports in association with Main Events, 发生星期六, 三月 26, 2016 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California and is sponsored byCorona Extra, 特玛, 商务旅行管理解决方案 (CTMS), 高兴, 吊装, Zappos的, BodyArmor, SAN营养, Shoe Palace and The Waterfront Hotel. 本次活动将住在HBO世界拳击锦标赛开始进行电视转播在 9:45 P.M. AND/PT. 打开HBO转播将是约瑟夫·迪亚兹JR. VS. 杰森在贝莱斯为NABF羽量级冠军10轮的战斗中协会金童推广带有米格尔·库托促销.
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