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中國人民銀行ESPN & ESPN Deportes Doubleheader
星期四, 七月 21
From Foxwoods Resort Casino – 8 P.M. AND/5 P.M. PT
馬山, CT (七月 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, CT, hosting many of the sport’s greatest fighters and fights over the past two decades.
The tradition continues on 星期四, 七月 21, as rising middleweight contender Sergiy “該技術員” Derevyanchenko (8-0, 6 科斯) faces former world champion 是 “王” 索利曼 (44-13, 18 科斯) 在10輪的主要事件 總理拳擊冠軍 上 ESPN & ESPN.
電視報導開始於 8 P.M. AND/5 P.M. PT, and features a 10-round middleweight clash between powerful Ievgen Khytrov (13-0, 11 科斯) and California’s 保羅·門德斯 (19-2-2, 9 科斯).
Connecticut’s all-time greatest boxer is the late Willie “Will ‘o the Wisp” Pep (229-11-1, 65 科斯), who was born in Middletown and lived in Rocky Hill. Pep, who fought professionally between 1940 和 1966, was a two-time world featherweight champion who had an epic rivalry with 桑迪薩德勒.
Other Hall-of-Famers from Connecticut are world heavyweight champion (1926-28)Gene “The Fighting Marine” Tunney (65-1-1, 48 科斯), of Greenwich, who defeated the legendary 傑克·登普西 兩次; Ukrainian-born world featherweight (1925) 錦標 聖路易斯 “小子” Kaplan (108-22-12, 72 科斯), from Meriden; world light heavyweight champion (1933) “Slapsie” 馬克辛羅森布魯姆 (222-42-31, 2 NC, 19 科斯), of Leonard Bridge; world light heavyweight titleholder (1926-27) 千斤頂 “Bright Eyes” Delaney (73-11-2, 43 科斯), 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 科斯), who was the first world champion to lose his title on the scale, Hartford’s two-time world welterweight titlist 馬龍 “魔術師” 八哥 (45-6-12, 27 科斯), Norwalk’s WBA junior middleweight champion “Tremendous” Travis Simms (28-1, 21 科斯), New Haven’s three-time world light heavyweight champion “糟糕” 乍得道森 (33-4, 18 科斯) and world welterweight contender Gaspar “El Indio” Ortega (131-29-6, 69 科斯), Stamford’s world No. 1-ranked welterweight Chico Vejar (92-20-4, 43 科斯), and Bloomfield’s 1996 Olympic Team USA captain 勞倫斯·克萊貝 (21-3-1, 16 科斯).
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 其他葉貝 (27-0) 和挑戰者 維克托·奧爾蒂斯 (28-2-2) battled for 12 發, 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-Famer詹姆斯·托尼 (65-4-2) won a 12-round decision over reigning IBF cruiserweight champion Vassiliy吉羅夫. 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, 吉羅夫 (31-0) started fast but faded, getting decked in the final round.
在 2004, New England favorite 斯科特 “The Sandman” 彭伯頓, hailing from nearby New Bedford, 嘛, was involved in a great 12日 圓, come-from-behind knockout of always-tough 奧馬爾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 溫尼拉巴斯 (Pazienza during his boxing career), 戰鬥克蘭斯頓的出, RI, and New Bedford’s all-action “Sucra” 雷奧利維拉. Paz had a 13-3 record at Foxwoods, highlighted by his 1998 decision over Glenwood Brown and his 50日career win in his retirement fight against Tocker Pudwill 在 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, 在他們的 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 “屁股” 塔斯 fought at Foxwoods, primarily because of the large Brazilian community in Connecticut. Freitas fought there four times, all in lightweight world title fights, 擊敗查希爾·拉希姆 和 Artur Grigorian 和輸給 胡安·迪亞茲 和 科拉萊斯迭戈.
Other great fights at Foxwoods include future world middleweight champion 李兆coming back from the brink of possibly getting knocked out to stop Craig McEwan 在 10日 他們的回合 2011 戰鬥, 卡爾Froch‘s dramatic late surge in 2009 to knock out前鋒泰勒 (who was well ahead on the scorecards) 在 12日 round for the WBC super middleweight championship, Pernell惠特克 taking a close decision fromAndrey Pestryaev (115-113, 115-112, 和 114-113) 在他們的 1997 WBA eliminator (later ruled a No Decision due to Whitaker’s failed drug test), 和 艾克Quarteyovercoming two knockdowns to successfully defend his WBA welterweight title versusJose Luis Lopez 在 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, 梅威瑟, JR. 和 羅伊·瓊斯, 小, both fought at Foxwoods in 1998. 在他的 15日 親鬥爭, Mayweather registered a third-round technical knockout of Miguel Melo, while Jones successfully defended his WBC/WBA light heavyweight titles with a 10日-的輪將軍澳 奧蒂斯格蘭特. In the Jones-Grant co-feature, IBF lightweight champion 莫斯利 successfully defended his title against 傑西·詹姆斯Leija, who was unable to answer the bell for the 10日 圓.
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