(L-R) – Manny Pacquiao &
Jeff Horn(picture courtesy of 7 News Brisbane)
EDMONTON, Alberta, Kanada (Juni 26, 2017) – Super Channel is pleased to announce that it has acquired the exclusive rights in Canada to air the July 1st World Boxing Organization (WBO) World Welterweight Championship bout between reigning champion, future Hall-of-Famer Manny “Pac’ Pacquiao, och utmanare Jeff Horn, börjar vid 9 p.m. OCH / 6 p.m. PT, live from Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Queensland, Australien.
“Battle of Brisbane: Pacquiao vs. Horn” is a presentation of Top Rank and Duco Events. Super Channel will air four exciting fights from this card, headlined by Pacquiao vs. Horn, uteslutande i Kanada.
“Super Channel is ecstatic to be bringing a non-pay-per-view Pacquiao bout to Canadian fight fans as a follow up to the exciting Brook vs Spence IBF Welterweight Championship we brought them in May” sa Troy Wassill, Programmeringschef, Domestic Distributors and Sports. “We keep hearing from our viewers that they want more boxing on Super Channel and the ‘Battle of Brisbane’ is going to deliver exactly what they are looking for.”
“The world has followed amazing Manny since he burst onto the scene in his U.S. debut i 2001, where he knocked out Lehlo Ledwaba to win his second of a record eight division world titles,” Hall of Fame promotor Bob Arum tillsatt. “It’s going to be an unbelievable event.”
PACQUIAO VS. DE LA HOYA & HATTON REPLAYS ON SC1
As a warm-up to the “Battle of Brisbane” på Juli 1, Super Channel will present two replays of previous Pacquiao bouts on Fredag Juni 30börjar vid 7 p.m. OCH / 4 p.m. PT on SC1:
Manny Pacquiao vs Oscar de la Hoya– December. 6, 2008
Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton– Maj 2, 2009 (IBO World super lightweight title)
These fights will also be available on Super Channel On Demand.
Pacquiao (59-6-2, 38 Kos),
a former two-term congressman,
was elected to a Philippine Senate seat in May 2016,
capturing more than 16
million votes nationally.
An international icon,
Pacquiao is the only fighter to win eight world titles in as many different weight divisions.
A three-time Fighter of the Year and the reigning BWAA “Fighter av årtiondet,” Pacquiao s resumé har segrar över nuvarande och framtida Hall of Famers, Inklusive
Oscar De La Hoya,
Ricky Hatton,
Marco Antonio Barrera,
Erik Morales,
Miguel Cotto,
Shane Mosley,
Juan Manuel Marquez och
Timothy Bradley.
Från 2008 till 2010, five of his seven victories were in world title fights, in five different weight classes, som sträcker sig från 130 till 154 pounds. No active boxer has sold more live tickets in the U.S. än Pacquiao, som också krediteras med mer än 18 million domestic pay-per-view buys. After his disappointing unanimous decision loss to Floyd Mayweather, Jr. maj 2, 2015, a world championship fight that generated a record 4.5 million pay-per-view buys and more than $400 million in television revenue alone, a healthy Pacquiao (he had suffered a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder during the fourth round of the Mayweather fight) returned to the winner’s circle on April 9, 2016, winning the rubber match against five-time world champion Bradley. In a battle of Top-10 pound for pound fighters, Pacquiao sent Bradley to the canvas twice en route to a dominant 12-round unanimous decision victory. På November. 5, Pacquiao regained the WBO welterweight title for a third time when he shellacked the once-defeated defending champion Jessie Vargas via another dominant 12-round unanimous decision. Pacquiao has been trained by Hall of Famer Freddie Roach sedan 2001.
Unbeaten hometown-favorite Horn (16-0-1, 11 Kos),
fighting out of Brisbane (Queensland, Australien),
enters the fight of his life having won his last three battles — alla i 2016 — mot
Ali Funeka,
Rico Mueller och
Randall Bailey, inuti avståndet.
They had a combined record of 105-14-4
when he fought them. Den 2012
Australian Olympian’s background belies the warrior he has become inside the ring.
Well-schooled inside and outside the ring,
Horn received his Bachelor of Education degree from Griffith University and taught high school Physical Education even as he embarked on his professional boxing career.
Horn started boxing at age 18 after being picked on by bullies and he has been an advocate of anti-bullying campaigns. Immensely popular throughout Australia, the 29-year-old Horn has become a national gate attraction in his own right. Selected as the 2015 Australian Boxer of the Year, Horn is trained and managed by Glenn Rushton, the only trainer he has ever had, and assisted by former WBC super welterweight world champion John “Odjuret” Mugabi.
Den Juli 1 telecast will also feature Irish Olympic hero Michael Conlan (2-0, 2 Kos), from Belfast, in a six-round featherweight bout against Jarrett “Juarez” Owen (5-4-3, 2 Kos), of Brisbane, och International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior bantamweight world champion Jerwin “Pretty Boy” Ancajas (24-1-1, 16 Kos), of Cavite City, Filippinerna, defending his title against top-rated contender Teiru Kinoshita (25-1-1, 8 Kos), från Kobe, Japan. The live telecast will open with an eight-round middleweight rumble between Shane Mosley, Jr. (10-1, 7 Kos), av Pomona, Calif. and son of former three-division world champion “Socker” Shane Mosley, och David Toussaint (10-0, 8 Kos), of Canberra, Australien.
Some of the greatest boxers in history have confirmed they will be ringside, Inklusive Roberto Duran, Evander Holyfield, och Thomas Hearns.
Alla slagsmål och fighters är föremål för förändring.
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Vasyl Lomatjenko (R) – 2017 Ring 8 Muhammad Ali International Fighter of the Year)
