MASHANTUCKET, සී.ටී. (ජූලි 19, 2016) — Connecticut may not have equal status with New York City or Las Vegas in terms of being a fight capital, but the Nutmeg State has produced five Hall-of-Famers with Foxwoods Resort Casino, located in Mashantucket, සී.ටී., hosting many of the sport’s greatest fighters and fights over the past two decades.

The tradition continues on බ්රහස්පතින්දා, ජූලි 21, as rising middleweight contender Sergiy “The Technician” Derevyanchenko (8-0, 6 Kos) faces former world champion Am “රජු” Soliman (44-13, 18 Kos) 10-වටය ප්රධාන උත්සවය තුළ ප්රිමියර් බොක්සිං චැම්පියන්ස් මත ESPN & ESPN.

රූපවාහිනී ආවරණය ට ආරම්භ 8 ප.ව.. සහ/5 ප.ව.. පී.ටී., and features a 10-round middleweight clash between powerful Ievgen Khytrov (13-0, 11 Kos) and California’s පෝල් මෙන්ඩෙස් (19-2-2, 9 Kos).

Connecticut’s all-time greatest boxer is the late Willie “Will ‘o the Wisp” Pep (229-11-1, 65 Kos), who was born in Middletown and lived in Rocky Hill. Pep, who fought professionally between 1940 හා 1966, was a two-time world featherweight champion who had an epic rivalry with සැන්ඩි Saddler.

Other Hall-of-Famers from Connecticut are world heavyweight champion (1926-28)Gene “The Fighting Marine” Tunney (65-1-1, 48 Kos), of Greenwich, who defeated the legendary ජැක් ඩෙම්ප්සේ දෙවරක්; Ukrainian-born world featherweight (1925) titlist ලුවී “ළමයෙක්” Kaplan (108-22-12, 72 Kos), from Meriden; world light heavyweight champion (1933) “Slapsie” Maxie Rosenbloom (222-42-31, 2 එන්.සී., 19 Kos), of Leonard Bridge; world light heavyweight titleholder (1926-27) ජැක් “Bright Eyes” Delaney (73-11-2, 43 Kos), who was born in Canada but lived in Bridgeport.

Over the year, many other Connecticut fighters have made an impact on the sport including Hartford’s NBA featherweight champion Battling Battalino (57-26-3, 26 Kos), who was the first world champion to lose his title on the scale, Hartford’s two-time world welterweight titlist මාලන් “මැජික් මනුෂ්ය” Starling (45-6-12, 27 Kos), Norwalk’s WBA junior middleweight champion “Tremendous” Travis Simms (28-1, 21 Kos), New Haven’s three-time world light heavyweight champion “නරක” චැඩ් ඩෝසන් (33-4, 18 Kos) and world welterweight contender Gaspar “El Indio” Ortega (131-29-6, 69 Kos), Stamford’s world No. 1-ranked welterweight Chico Vejar (92-20-4, 43 Kos), and Bloomfield’s 1996 Olympic Team USA captain ලෝරන්ස් මැටි-Bey (21-3-1, 16 Kos).

The No. 1 Foxwoods fight of all-time, held on April 16, 2011, was also promoted by DiBella Entertainment, and was selected as the 2011 Ring Magazine and BWAA Fight of the Year. Defending champion ඇන්ඩෘ Berto (27-0) හා අභියෝග වික්ටර් දසුන (28-2-2) battled for 12 වට, each getting dropped twice, with Ortiz winning a hard-fought decision (114-111, 114-112, 115-110) for the WBC welterweight title.

A close second place is the 2003 BWAA Fight of the Year, in which future Hall-of-Famerජේම්ස් Toney (65-4-2) won a 12-round decision over reigning IBF cruiserweight champion Vassiliy Jirov. The action started days earlier at the pre-fight press conference when a skirmish erupted as tables were overturned and glasses thrown. The animosity continued between the two fighters and their respective camps right up to the final bell. Previously undefeated, Jirov (31-0) started fast but faded, getting decked in the final round.

දී 2004, New England favorite ස්කොට් “The Sandman” Pemberton, hailing from nearby New Bedford, එම්.ඒ., was involved in a great 12^වන වටයේ, come-from-behind knockout of always-tough Omar Sheika in a rematch of a previous draw, for a regional super middleweight title.

Two other N.E. fan favorites who fought regularly at Foxwoods were multiple-time world champion Vinny පැස් (Pazienza during his boxing career), fighting out of Cranston, රොයල්, and New Bedford’s all-action “සුක්රා” රේ ඔලිවෙයිරා. Paz had a 13-3 record at Foxwoods, highlighted by his 1998 decision over Glenwood Brown and his 50^වනcareer win in his retirement fight against Tocker Pudwill දී 2004. Oliveira was only 6-7-1 fighting at Foxwoods, but he faced nothing but iron and he did defeat a world champion, Vince Phillips, ඔවුන්ගේ 2000 non-title fight that produced the second-most total punches (2,989) recorded at that time.

Brazilian boxing fans always turned out in force when countryman Acelino “බට්” Freitas fought at Foxwoods, primarily because of the large Brazilian community in Connecticut. Freitas fought there four times, all in lightweight world title fights, පරාජයZahir රහීම් හා Artur Grigorian හා අහිමි Juan Diaz හා දියේගෝ Corrales.

Other great fights at Foxwoods include future world middleweight champion ඇන්ඩි ලීcoming back from the brink of possibly getting knocked out to stop Craig McEwan දී 10^වන ඔවුන්ගේ වටයේ 2011 සටන, කාල් Froch‘s dramatic late surge in 2009 to knock outJermain ටේලර් (who was well ahead on the scorecards) දී 12^වන round for the WBC super middleweight championship, Pernell Whitaker taking a close decision fromAndrey Pestryaev (115-113, 115-112, හා 114-113) ඔවුන්ගේ 1997 WBA eliminator (later ruled a No Decision due to Whitaker’s failed drug test), හා Ike Quarteyovercoming two knockdowns to successfully defend his WBA welterweight title versusJose Luis Lopez දී 1997 (Quartey was originally awarded a win by majority decision, but a scoring error was discovered and the fight was ruled a majority draw).

Two of the greatest boxers in modern boxing history, ෆ්ලොයිඩ් Mayweather, Jr. හා රෝයි ජෝන්ස්, කනිෂ්ඨ, both fought at Foxwoods in 1998. ඔහුගේ දී 15^වන ගැති සටන, Mayweather registered a third-round technical knockout of Miguel Melo, while Jones successfully defended his WBC/WBA light heavyweight titles with a 10^වන-වටයේ TKO Otis Grant. In the Jones-Grant co-feature, IBF lightweight champion ෂේන් ​​මොස්ලි successfully defended his title against ජෙසී ජේම්ස් Leija, who was unable to answer the bell for the 10^වන වටයේ.

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