02.10.05 – World-ranked Luis Valdez of Los Mochis, Mexico, faces undefeated Omar Salado of Tijuana, Mexico, in a 12-round title bout for the vacant World Boxing Association Fedelatin super flyweight championship on the nationally and internationally televised “Guilty Fight Night” card presented by Guilty Boxing Thursday, Oct. 6, at El Foro in Tijuana..
Both the 22-year-old Valdez and the 25-year-old Salado are relentless boxer-punchers who swarm over their opponents. Valdez, ranked No. 16 by the World Boxing Council among light flyweights, has a record of 12-4-1 with eight knockouts while Salado has a mark of 12-0-1 with five knockouts.
Valdez has a win on a Guilty Boxing card earlier this year, a unanimous decision over Juan Carlos Perez March 11 in Tijuana.
Salado also has fared well on Guilty Boxing cards with nine straight wins in Tijuana and Las Vegas. On July 7 he stopped Eduardo Morales in the sixth-round of a 10-round bout in Tijuana and on April 8 he took a 10-round unanimous decision over Francisco Paredes in Las Vegas.
Guilty Boxing’s “Guilty Fight Night” telecasts are seen domestically on America One, Comcast Sports Chicago, DirecTV, Dish Network and The Urban Network; in Europe, Africa and middle eastern countries on Fox Sports International; in Europe and Africa on BEN Television; in the Caribbean on WCVI Super Station; and in Japan.
Guilty Boxing’s weekly cards are seen in 202 million households worldwide, making Guilty Productions one of the fastest-growing providers of boxing television programming in the world.
This is another in the ongoing series of “Guilty Fight Night” cards to be held in Tijuana. The innovative Guilty Boxing series was launched during May, 2004, and has presented cards in Las Vegas, California, Arizona and Connecticut as well as Tijuana.
The Guilty Boxing card starts at 7 p.m. (Pacific) with gates to El Foro opening at 6.
Commentators for Guilty Boxing’s “Guilty Fight Night” telecasts are “The Colonel” Bob Sheridan and Benny Ricardo. Sheridan, a Boxing Hall of Fame inductee, has worked almost 800 world championship bouts on six continents during a career that has spanned more than five decades. Ricardo, for 11 years a place kicker on four NFL teams, also is a veteran announcer and has covered the biggest events in the sports world, ranging from Super Bowls to World Cups.