紐約, 紐約 (六月 28, 2016) - 大鵬民族體育很高興地宣布，兩屆世界冠軍和頂級磅磅戰鬥機沃德 (29-0, 15 科斯) 將返回到環上的星期六, 八月 6, to continue his conquest of the light heavyweight division when he takes on power-punching Colombian Alexander Brand (25-1, 19 科斯) at Oracle Arena in Ward’s hometown of Oakland, 加利福尼亞州. The event will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing® 在開始 10:30 P.M. AND/PT.
Ward and Brand were slated to face each other last November on the pay-per-view undercard of Miguel Cotto vs. CANELO阿爾瓦雷斯, but a leg injury forced Ward to withdraw from participation in the event.
門票分 $300, $120, $90, $60 和 $30, 不包括適用的服務費和稅款, go on sale Tuesday, 六月 28 在 5:00 P.M. PT and will be available at all Ticketmaster locations, 在網上Ticketmaster.com和充電通過電話 (800) 745-3000.
沃德VS. Brand is a 12-round fight presented by Roc Nation Sports and sponsored by Corona Extra, the motion picture HANDS OF STONE: The True Story of Roberto Duran, 商務旅行管理解決方案 (CTMS) and The Clorox Company, supporting the Bay Area Community for over 100 歲月.
“We can get it on, 現在,“沃德說. “八月 6日, I will be ready, so come out to Oracle Arena or tune in live on HBO. Don’t miss it.”
“It will be a great honor to face Andre Ward on August 6 and better yet in his own backyard,” said Brand. “Fighting somebody with such an illustrious career, facing a guy that perhaps hasn’t lost a round in his entire life, is even more thrilling. We were set to face each other last November, but he was forced to pull out of the fight with an injury. Now the time has come to fight him and I can’t wait to derail his future plans. I’ll work hard to spoil them.”
“Andre Ward’s quest to become the best light heavyweight on the planet and boxing’s number one pound-for-pound fighter continues on 八月 6,“大衛Itskowitch說, COO of Boxing Roc Nation Sports. “Alexander Brand has been waiting for this fight since last year and we have no doubt he is going to enter the ring hungry for a huge victory. There’s a lot on the line in this fight for Andre who knows he can’t look past Brand towards a much discussed clash with Unified Light Heavyweight World Champion Sergey Kovalev.”
“Undefeated for the last two decades, technically brilliant and the last American man to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing, Andre Ward is one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the world,” said Peter Nelson, 執行副總裁, HBO體育. “On August 6日, Andre continues his move up in weight to campaign in the 175-pound division against challenger Alexander Brand in front a hometown crowd at the Oracle.”
知道他的外環線堅強的性格和完整性，裡面是他的戰士的本能, 32 year-old Andre Ward’s skill and talent were apparent early in his outstanding amateur career. He racked up every title in the books, culminating in a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 2004 在雅典奧運會, 希臘. As the only male American boxer to claim Olympic gold in the past
decade, 沃德加入了拳王阿里的喜歡, 糖光芒倫納德和霍亞. 他轉為職業選手十二月 18, 2004, scoring a second round technical knockout victory over Chris Molina at Staples Center in a fight that was televised live on HBO. He has gone on to rack up 27 more victories since then, building an ever-growing legion of fans in the process. 成為環雜誌和WBA超中量級世界冠軍後，, rising to the number two spot on the pound-for-pound list and winning the 2011 年度最佳戰鬥機 (ESPN, 體育畫報, 環雜誌和美國拳擊作家協會), 它宣布Ward在1月簽署的獨家推廣協議中華民國國家體育 2015, 在他傳奇的拳擊生涯的新篇章. 海灣地區的產品返回到環上月 20, 2015 在甲骨文球館，他在奧克蘭的家鄉球迷面前, 加利福尼亞州和拿下第九輪淘汰賽在保羅·史密斯, continuing his unbeaten streak which dates back to when he was a 12-year-old amateur. In his most recent fight on March 26, 2016, Ward made his highly publicized 175-pound debut against Cuba’s undefeated and IBF number one rated light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera in front of frenzied crowd at Oracle Arena that including luminaries such as Michael B. 約旦, Stephen Curry, Marshawn Lynch and Draymond Green. Ward expertly managed the fight and began to unravel his opponent in the third round when he caught Barrera with a counter left hook, dropping him to the canvas. The rest was a routine victory for Ward, who scored a dominating dispatch of Barrera by way of unanimous decision after 12 發. Ward looks forward to a formidable challenge in Brand who is now the only obstacle in the way of his anticipated showdown against Unified Light Heavyweight World Champion Sergey Kovalev in the fall.
波哥大, Colombia native Alexander Brand (25-1, 19 科斯) turned professional at the relatively late age of 32 following a long and accomplished amateur career that saw him tally over 400 勝. He burst on to the professional scene in 2009, scoring knockout wins in his first 12 fights and winning 15 他第一 17 bouts inside the distance. His first and only professional setback came via an eight-round split decision loss to current WBC Super Middleweight World Champion Badou Jack in a 2012 fight that many ringside observers thought Brand had won. 由於這場鬥爭, 品牌已通過各環的考驗並大獲全勝, notching eight consecutive victories. 在他的最後一個回合, Brand faced the sternest test of his career since the Jack fight when he fought a favored, undefeated and highly touted light heavyweight Medzhid Bektemirov on December 5, 2015 at Osceola Heritage Center in Kissimmee, 佛羅里達. Brand weathered an early Bektemirov blitz, including recovering from a first round knockdown, and notched a 10-round split decision victory by the scores of 98-91, 98-91 和 94-95. 該 39 year-old Brand, who has held several regional title including the WBC Latino Super Middleweight and the WBC Silver Interim Super Middleweight Championships, will be looking to pull off another upset on 八月 6 and thrust himself into light heavyweight title contention.
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