STAMFORD, Conn. (February 21, 2007) – VERSUS will have a pre-taped interview with Tommy Morrison as well as a live interview during the telecast tomorrow night as part of its VERSUS Fight Night in collaboration with Top Rank Boxing at 9 p.m. ET from the Mountaineer Race Track & Gaming Resort in Chester, West Virginia. The telecast will be headlined by the 12-round main event showdown between super featherweights Humberto Soto (40-5-2 with 24 KOs) and Humberto Toledo (26-2-2 with 15 KOs)..
Morrison (46-3-1), who has not fought since 1996 after a positive HIV test prior to fight in Las Vegas, was officially cleared Tuesday by the West Virginia Boxing Commission to fight. Morrison has passed a number of medical tests and insists he was misdiagnosed as HIV positive. He will meet John Castle in a four-round bout on the undercard, which will not be televised by VERSUS.
VERSUS will also show Morrison’s 1993 victory over George Foreman on its Legends of the Ring series from 6-8 p.m.
Soto of Los Mochis, Mexico, rated WBC #2, is unbeaten in his last 18 bouts (17-0-1) which includes a victory over Rocky Juarez in the featherweight division. Following that win, Soto moved into the super featherweight division and won a WBC Eliminator over Ivan Valle on August 12 in Las Vegas. Toledo is WBC #7-rated super featherweight, is unbeaten in his last 24 bouts including a TKO 6 over Davinson Guerra to win the WBC Latin America Championship on August 11 in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
In the opening VERSUS televised bout, heavyweight Joe Mesi of Buffalo, N.Y. will take on George Linberger of Cleveland in a 10-round event. Baby Joe Mesi (33-0, 26 KOs) has returned strong to the ring following a two-year sabbatical for medical reasons. The undefeated Buffalo heavyweight looks to rise through the division by taking on veteran George Linberger (29-8-1, 25 KOs) in the 10-round co-feature.
VERSUS (VERSUS.com) celebrates real competition in all its forms. The network is the national cable home of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Stanley Cup Playoffs as well as best-in-class events like The Tour de France, the America’s Cup, the Dakar Rally, the Professional Bull Riders (PBR), Professional Boxing, the Boston Marathon and Davis Cup. Now in more than 70 million homes, the network features the best field sports programming on television and is a destination for sports fans, athletes and sportsmen to find exclusive, competitive events that audiences can’t find elsewhere. The network offers unique, competition-themed original programming and is the exclusive home of Survivor in syndication. VERSUS, a wholly owned company of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK), is distributed via cable systems and satellite operators throughout the United States.