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Premier Boxing Champions: The Next Round on Bounce
Headlined by Lightweight World Champion Robert Easter Defending Against Puerto Rican Contender Luis Cruz
Toledo, OH (Lub ob hlis ntuj 8, 2017) – Unbeaten contender and Cleveland-native Terrell Gausha will face Puerto Rico’s Luis Hernandez while lightweight contender Jamel Herring enters the ring against Armenia’s Art Hovhannisyan in undercard action on Friday, Lub ob hlis ntuj 10 from the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio.
The event is headlined by unbeaten lightweight world champion Robert Easter returning to his hometown for his first world title defense as he takes on Puerto Rico’s Luis Cruz nyob rau hauv lub ntsiab kev tshwm sim ntawm Premier Boxing Champions: Tus tom ntej Round rau Bounce.
Televised coverage on Bounce begins at 9 p.m. THIAB/6 p.m. PT and features bantamweight world champion and three-time U.S. Olympian Rau'shee Warren battling once-beaten contenderZhanat Zhakiyanov.
Daim pib rau lub nyob kev tshwm sim, which is promoted by About Billions Promotions in association with TGB Promotions, yog luv nqi ntawm $30, $50, $75, $100 thiab $200, thiab yog muag tam sim no. Daim pib yuav raug muas hauv internet mus saib tau www.ticketmaster.com, los yog los ntawm hu xov tooj 1-800-745-3000. Gausha (19-0, 9 Kos) and Hernandez (15-3, 8 Kos) will compete in a 10-round middleweight bout while Herring (15-1, 8 Kos) meets Hovhannisyan (17-3, 9 Kos) in an eight-round lightweight fight.
Additional action features a pair of unbeaten prospects as Raynell Williams (11-0, 5 Kos) battles Justin Savi (29-9, 19 Kos) in a six-round junior lightweight bout while Tyler McCreary (12-0, 6 Kos) yuav siv sij hawm nyob rau hauv Jonathan Perez (36-16, 28 Kos) nyob rau hauv ib yim-round featherweight attraction.
Rounding out the night of action is heavyweight Devin Vargas (18-4, 7 Kos) nyob rau hauv ib tug rau-round bout tiv thaiv Tim Washington (6-4, 6 Kos), unbeaten lightweight Albert Bell (6-0, 2 Kos) tiv thaiv James Lester (11-11, 4 Kos) in a six-round bout and Adrian Wilson (3-1, 2 Kos) against unbeaten Rashad Scott (3-0, 1 Kos) in four-rounds of welterweight action.
The 29-year-old Gausha is undefeated since turning pro in 2012 after his exceptional amateur career that saw him win a U.S. National Amateur championship in addition to his Olympic experience. Gausha has picked up six victories in the last two years against increasingly experienced competition including triumphs over Orlando Lora and Steven Martinez in 2016. He looks to continue his march towards a world title when he takes on the Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico-native Hernandez who won five times in 2016.
Another amateur standout who won an Amateur National Championship the same year as his Olympic run, Herring fights out of Cincinnati and is originally from Coram, New York. The 31-year-old won his first 15 pro fights including triumphs over Luis Eduardo Florez, Yakubu Amidu and Hector Velasquez. A former member of the U.S. Marine Corps, Herring will face the experienced contender Hovhannisyan who is originally from Armenia but trains now out of Glendale, California.
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Bounce is the fastest-growing African-American (AA) network on television and airs on the broadcast signals of local television stations and corresponding cable carriage. The network features a programming mix of original and off-network series, theatrical tsab ntawv tsa suab duab, specials, nyob ua si thiab ntau. Bounce has grown to be available in more than 94 million homes across the United States and 93% of all African American television homes, nrog rau tag nrho cov sab saum toj AA TV ciaj uas muag. Among the founders of Bounce are iconic American figures Martin Luther King, III and Ambassador Andrew Young.
Rau hauv zos channel qhov chaw, mus saib BounceTV.com.
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