Elvir Muriqi Added To DiBella Card At Mohegan Sun On January 10
***ESPN/2 Friday Night Fights Will Televise Beginning at 10:30 PM***
02.01 - The "Kosovo Kid," popular light-heavyweight Elvir Muriqi, has been added to the action-packed fight card presented by DiBella Entertainment at Mohegan Sun Resort & Casino in Uncasville, CT. on Friday night, January 10, it was announced today.
The 23-year-old Muriqi, who hails from Kosovo and fights out of the Bronx, has scored 24 career wins with only one setback under the tutelage of Teddy Atlas. He last fought in July of 2002, stopping Sam Ahmad in three rounds in one of the year's most exciting fights. Elvir was a 1998 New York Golden Gloves Champion and made his professional debut later that year.
ESPN/2 Friday Night Fights will televise beginning at 10:30 PM with Bob Papa and Teddy Atlas providing the commentary.
The special edition of ESPN/2 Friday Night Fights, which gets underway at 10:30 PM, is headlined by DaVarryl "Touch of Sleep" Williamson (17-1, 16 KOs, Aurora, CO) vs. Robert Wiggins (17-1, 10 KOs, East Providence, RI) in a 10-round heavyweight main event. The co-feature is a 12-round NABF flyweight title match with Brian "Hawaiian Punch" Viloria (10-0, 6 KOs, Waipahu, HI), defending his championship against Alejandro Moreno (19-10, 10 KOs, Juarez, Mexico).
The card also includes a 6 round junior middleweight battle pitting Jewish star Yuri Foreman (6-0, 3 KOs, Haifa, Israel/New York, NY) vs. Andrey Trunov (Ukraine, Buffalo, NY, 8-4, 6 KOs); a 6 round junior-middleweight bout with Sechew Powell (4-0, 2 KO's, Brooklyn, NY) vs. Billy Tipton (1-2); and a 6 round light-heavyweight bout matching Hofstra University student Aneudi Santos (6-0, 4 KO's, Freeport, NY), vs. Norman Jones (Savannah, GA, 13-8-2); and a 4-round heavyweight battle pitting Malcolm Tann (1-0, 1 KO's, Seaboard, NC) vs. Harold Rodriguez (3-1, 1 KO) Taunton, MA.
Tickets are $45 and $25 and can be purchased by visting tickets.com, calling 800-477-6849 or by visiting the Mohegan Sun box office.
