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PBC على ESPN & ESPN Deportes Doubleheader
الخميس, يوليو 21
From Foxwoods Resort Casino – 8 عصرا. و/5 عصرا. PT
من Mashantucket, CT (يوليو 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 الخميس, يوليو 21, as rising middleweight contender Sergiy “The Technician” ديريفيانتشينكو (8-0, 6 كوس) faces former world champion هل “ملك” سليمان (44-13, 18 كوس) في حالة 10 جولة الرئيسي لل رئيس الوزراء الملاكمة أبطال أوروبا في ESPN & ESPN.
تبدأ والتغطية التلفزيونية في 8 عصرا. و/5 عصرا. PT, and features a 10-round middleweight clash between powerful Ievgen Khytrov (13-0, 11 كوس) وكاليفورنيا بول منديز (19-2-2, 9 كوس).
Connecticut’s all-time greatest boxer is the late ويلي “Will ‘o the Wisp” Pep (229-11-1, 65 كوس), who was born in Middletown and lived in Rocky Hill. Pep, الذين قاتلوا مهنيا بين 1940 و 1966, was a two-time world featherweight champion who had an epic rivalry with ساندي السراج.
Other Hall-of-Famers from Connecticut are world heavyweight champion (1926-28)Gene “The Fighting Marine” Tunney (65-1-1, 48 كوس), of Greenwich, who defeated the legendary جاك ديمبسي مرتين; Ukrainian-born world featherweight (1925) titlist لويس “طفل” Kaplan (108-22-12, 72 كوس), from Meriden; world light heavyweight champion (1933) “Slapsie” ماكسي روسنبلووم (222-42-31, 2 NC, 19 كوس), of Leonard Bridge; world light heavyweight titleholder (1926-27) جاك “Bright Eyes” Delaney (73-11-2, 43 كوس), 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 كوس), who was the first world champion to lose his title on the scale, Hartford’s two-time world welterweight titlist مارلون “سحر الرجل” Starling (45-6-12, 27 كوس), Norwalk’s WBA junior middleweight champion “Tremendous” ترافيس سيمز (28-1, 21 كوس), New Haven’s three-time world light heavyweight champion “سيئة” تشاد داوسون (33-4, 18 كوس) and world welterweight contender Gaspar “El Indio” Ortega (131-29-6, 69 كوس), Stamford’s world No. 1-وزن الوسط في المرتبة Chico Vejar (92-20-4, 43 كوس), and Bloomfield’s 1996 Olympic Team USA captain لورانس كلاي بيه (21-3-1, 16 كوس).
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 غيرها من برتو (27-0) ومنافسه فيكتور أورتيز (28-2-2) battled for 12 جولات, 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-Famerجيمس توني (65-4-2) won a 12-round decision over reigning IBF cruiserweight champion فاسيلي 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.
في 2004, New England favorite سكوت “The Sandman” Pemberton, hailing from nearby New Bedford, MA, was involved in a great 12عشر جولة, 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 فيني باز (Pazienza during his boxing career), يقاتلون من كرانستون, RI, and New Bedford’s all-action “سوكرا” راي أوليفيرا. Paz had a 13-3 record at Foxwoods, highlighted by his 1998 القرار انتهى Glenwood Brown كذالك هو 50عشرcareer win in his retirement fight against Tocker Pudwill في 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, في بهم 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 “مؤخرة” فريتاس fought at Foxwoods, primarily because of the large Brazilian community in Connecticut. Freitas fought there four times, all in lightweight world title fights, قهرظاهر الرحيم و Artur Grigorian وخسر ل Juan Diaz و دييغو كوراليس.
Other great fights at Foxwoods include future world middleweight champion أندي ليcoming back from the brink of possibly getting knocked out to stop كريغ ماك إيوان في 10عشر جولة بهم 2011 شجار, كارل Froch‘s dramatic late surge in 2009 to knock outجيرمين تايلور (who was well ahead on the scorecards) في 12عشر round for the WBC super middleweight championship, برنل ويتيكر taking a close decision fromAndrey Pestryaev (115-113, 115-112, و 114-113) في بهم 1997 WBA eliminator (later ruled a No Decision due to Whitaker’s failed drug test), و آيك كوارتيovercoming two knockdowns to successfully defend his WBA welterweight title versusJose Luis Lopez في 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, فلويد مايويذر, الابن. و روي جونز, الابن, both fought at Foxwoods in 1998. في كتابه 15عشر قتال محترف, Mayweather registered a third-round technical knockout of Miguel Melo, while Jones successfully defended his WBC/WBA light heavyweight titles with a 10عشر-TKO الجولة من Otis Grant. In the Jones-Grant co-feature, IBF lightweight champion شين موسلي successfully defended his title against جيسي جيمس Leija, who was unable to answer the bell for the 10عشر جولة.
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