| Montreal (Feb. 27, 2015) – Light toa taumahamaha o te ao A Tamutu “Superman” Stevenson (25-1, 21 Koó) hoki ki te mowhiti Rāhoroi, April 4 i Pepsi Coliseum i roto i te Quebec City ki te paruru i tona taitara ki te toa mua whitu super ao Sakio “Ko te Scorpion” Taurus (32-6-3, 21 Koó). Te April 4 takahanga tohu te tuatahi o Te Pirimia mekemeke Champions (PBC) i runga i CBS (3 p.m. AND/12 p.m. PT).
“Ahau oaoa ki te hei i te headliner mō te kaupapa PBC tuatahi i runga i CBS ahau,” Na ka mea a Stevenson. “E mohio ana ahau e mutu Bika i tetahi mea, ka pena ano e mīharo, me te tino piro-whakaaro te whawhai. Te matapae ahau e ngaro Bika i te knockout mo te wa tuatahi i roto i tona mahi.”
“I muri i enei tau katoa whawhai i 168 pauna, i hoko kaha atu te uaua ki te taimaha, a, ko e he take nui i roto i toku hinganga,” Na ka mea a Bika. “E kite ahau kahore he raruraru hanga i te peke ki te taumahamaha te marama ki te kanohi Stevenson, a kahore ahau e ongo'i ka e ahau i te ngoikoretanga no te mea i hanga ki te toa i tenei whakawhiti pai te ia iti iho i te rua tau ki muri ki a Chad Dawson. Fafau atu nei au ia outou e, e riro ahau i te toa hou i runga i April 4.”
Stevenson, 37, riro te ao ki te taitara marama taumahamaha i Pipiri o 2013 i roto i te Montreal, mā te autaia 76-rua, knockout matamua-a tawhio noa ki runga ki te ka-he whawhai ki te kingi o te wehenga, Dawson. Roaa te wikitoria faahiahia Stevenson “Knockout o te Tau” a “Fighter o te Tau” ekea. I roto i tona korerotanga tuatahi, i te whai ake E whitu. 28, toa o mua te ao Tavoris “Thunder” Kapua i te auraa i te whakamātautau nui mo te toa hou ki te kia, engari i akina atu te southpaw kaha Cloud ki te e taoto i te mutunga o te whitu o tawhio.
E rua marama i muri mai, “Superman” faka'osi te tau ki te wikitoria ta'e runga i tona No. 1 nguha whakahauanga, Tony “Rererangi” Bellew o Great Britain, nei i taea ki te whakaoti i te ono o nga tawhio. I te Mei 2015 i te Bell Centre i Montreal, Kaiwero kaupapa Fonfara Andrzei whakamatauria ki te waiho i te kaiwero uaua ka tukinotia pā i ki te a'ee fakangalongata'a rite Stevenson te patototanga a Fonfara iho rua i roto i te tīmatanga o te rauna anake ki te haere ki te ie i ia i roto i te iwa o tawhio. Judges ngä te whawhai 116-109, 115-110 a 115-110 hoki Stevenson i roto i tona SHOWTIME® tuatahi. I roto i tona haerenga whakamutunga, Dec. 19, 2014 i runga i SHOWTIME i te Pepsi Coliseum, “Superman” hanga mahi poto o te hōia Russian Dmitry “Ko te Hunter” Sukhotskiy, ka tu ia ia i roto i te rima o.
Taurus, whawhai i roto i Ahitereiria i te ara o tona Cameroon Māori, i kanohi ia i te 2000 Olympics, Kua roaa te ingoa ano he uaua, toa ngangare taratara nei kua whawhai i te pai. Kua i roto i te taitara e ono ao whawhai ia (1-3-2), e pupuri ana i tetahi o nga karauna 168-pauna wehewehenga i roto i 2013-14. Kua maha toa o te ao whawhai ia, kahore i te patototanga i roto i 41 pāngia ngaio a ko ia “Ko te nguha, Season 3” raupapa mooni pouaka toa i roto i 2007.
“Ko te Scorpion” faaite tona taikaha-ao o te piha haapiiraa, me te faaotiraa i roto i te whawhai ki te whiriwhiri middleweights super o te ao i taua wa, challenging world champions Markus Beyer a Joe Calzaghe i roto i te 2006, Lucian Bute i roto i te 2007 a Andre Ward i roto i te 2010. Resilience me te mahi pakeke te mutunga utua atu mo Bika ka riro ia hiahiatia te taitara 168-pauna, hinga Marco Antonio Periban i te whakatau i roto i te 2013 i Center Barclays i Brooklyn, N.Y.. Ia pai te ono marama i muri mai ka mau tona take mā te whawhai ki te 12- Unuunu a tawhio ki Anthony Dirrell i runga i SHOWTIME i roto i 2013. Te mutunga ngaro Bika tona whitiki i roto i te rematch ki Dirrell i te SHOWTIME August whakamutunga.
PBC i te CBS, headlined e te marama taumahamaha whawhai aito te ao i waenganui i Stevenson me Bika, E hāpaitia ana e te Groupe Yvon Michel (Te omaoma) a ka homai e e Videotron me i roto i te whai wāhi ki Mise-O-JEU.
Haere Tickets runga i te hoko Rāhoroi, Feb. 28 i 10 a.m. Na, i te pouaka tari Pepsi Coliseum i Quebec, na roto i te te karanga (418) 691-7211 ranei (800) 900-7469, online i www.billetech.com, i te omaoma (514) 383-0666 a Champion mekemeke Club (514) 376-0980. Utu tīkiti ngā i $25 ki $250 i runga i te papa.
No te mea kei te tū i te whakaaturanga o te ra i te aroaro o Aranga, Omaoma akiaki ana i te iwi whānui Quebec ki te haere mai tatou ei mau utuafare, me ngā rōpū mā te whakahere e rua tīkiti (i roto i te turanga) hoki-te-utu-a-1 tuku motuhake mō te rua nga ra anake (Rāhoroi, Feb. 28 a Rātapu, March 1) mo aua tīkiti hoko tika i roto i www.billetech.com.
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