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Cappiello fight card on TV this Sunday on Fox

29.04 - BROCKTON ---- The second in the series of Mohegan Sun Fight Night New England fight cards sponsored by Cappiello Promotions will be televised this Sunday, May 4 at 3:30 p.m. on Fox SportsNet.

Stu Taylor, Dana Rosenblatt and Mike Cappiello will bring fight fans all the action that took place on Saturday, April 26 at the Shaw's Center in Brockton. It marked the first time in seven years that fight promoter Rich Cappiello brought boxing back to the City of Champions. The venture was a success as the event was a sellout.

Middleweight fighters Peter Manfredo Jr., Ian Gardner took different routes but
had the same results in the second Mohegan Sun Fight Night New England fight card. Manfredo needed less than two rounds to knock out Ronnie Johnson to remained undefeated with a career mark of 17-0. Gardner, whose only career loss was to Manfredo Jr., months ago improved to 11-1 with a sixth-round knockout of Michael McFail.

Gardner started out strongly and looked as if he would, like Manfredo, knock out his opponent in the second round. However, McFail, to his credit hung tough and actually landed a few solid punches in the middle rounds before Gardner began the sixth round with a flurry of punches which ended the fight.

Randolph's Billy Mofford and Taunton's Henry Rodrigues put on the most entertaining fight of the evening as the heavyweight battle went the distance with Mofford winning an unanimous decision. Rodrigues came out as the aggressor in this six-round battle as he was looking for the "home run" punch that would end this rematch early. Mofford, who won a four-round decision in the first meeting between these two teams, worked the body effectively through the middle rounds as Rodrigues began to lose steam on his punches. Rodrigues also had a point taken away in the fifth round as he would fall short on all three cards losing, 59-54, 60-53 and 58-56.

Willie Gibbs was on the defensive in the first round of his middleweight fight with Benjamin Marquez but it was a different story in the second round as Gibbs improved to 13-0 with a combination that knocked out the 43-year old challenger. Eric Pinaretta of New Bedford improved to 1-1 when after a slow start, he rebounded to beat veteran Rick Zola. Pinaretta had to two solid shots to the jaw and a flurry of punches in the third to overcome a lackluster first round to beat Zola.

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