(L – R) World Middleweight Champion Kelly Pavlik, Youngstown, Ohio, and WBC Super Welterweight Champion Sergio Martinez of Spain pose during the weigh-in Friday for their upcoming World Middleweight Championship at the historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, on Saturday, April 17. Both fighters weighed 159.5 lb. Top Rank is promoting in association with DiBella Entertainment and Caesars Atlantic City. Pavlik vs Martinez will be televised on HBO World Championship Boxing..
World Middleweight Champion Kelly Pavlik, Youngstown, Ohio, and WBC Super Welterweight Champion Sergio Martinez of Spain pose during the weighin Friday for their upcoming World Middleweight Championship at the historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, on Saturday, April 17. both fighters weighed 159.5 lb. Top Rank is promoting in association with DiBella Entertainment and Caesars Atlantic City. Pavlik vs Martinez will be televised on HBO World Championship Boxing
Live Stream: Pavlik – Martinez Weigh-in
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (April 16, 2010) — Top Rank will officially unveil its original webcast series, TRLivestream, Today! Friday, April 16, at 3 PM ET/Noon PT with a live broadcast from Atlantic City, N.J., of the Official Weigh-in for the Kelly Pavlik-Sergio Martinez World Middleweight Championship. Tomorrow! Saturday, April 17, beginning at 6:55 PM ET/4:55 PT, Top Rank will air four non-televised undercard bouts from the Pavlik- Martinez title fight. Both events will air exclusively on www.TopRank.com/TRLivestream.
The inaugural edition of Top Rank’s TRLivestream series will provide with wall-to- wall coverage of the weigh-ins for the Pavlik-Martinez bout, including all of the undercard fighters, and culminating with speedy Argentine challenger Sergio Martinez and defending middleweight king and the fighting pride of Youngstown, Ohio, Kelly Pavlik, stepping on the scales.
The following day, on Saturday, April 17, fans can whet their appetites for the main event, which airs at 10 PM ET / 7 PM PT on HBO, by watching all four non-televised bouts on the Pavlik- Martinez undercard live from the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. The fights include a 6- round contest between super welterweights Delray Raines (17-7-1, 12 KOs) and Ronald Hearns (23-1, 8 KOs) and heavyweights Dominic Guinn (32-6-1, 21 KOs) and Terrell Nelson (8-9, 5 KOs) in an 8-round battle.
“I’D LIKE TO WISH LOU DIBELLA A HAPPY INCOME TAX DAY SINCE HE’LL BE WRITING OFF SERGIO MARTINEZ AS A LOSS ON APRIL 17!”– Jack Loew, Kelly Pavlik’s Trainer
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (April 15, 2010) — “Lou DiBella may need a CPA today but after KELLY PAVLIK gets through with his fighter, SERGIO MARTINEZ, Diabolical L.O.U. is going to need CPR,” boasted JACK LOEW, Pavlik’s trainer, after Pavlik’s morning run on Atlantic City’s famous Boardwalk. “I’d like to wish Diabolical L.O.U. a happy Income Tax Day since he’ll be writing off Sergio Martinez as a loss on April 17.”
Talk about your “many unhappy returns!”
World Middleweight Champion KELLY PAVLIK defends his crown against World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight champion Sergio Martinez, This Saturday! April 17, at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. HBO World Championship Boxing will televise the fight live, beginning at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT.
Pavlik (36-1, 32 KOs), from Youngstown, OH., will be making his fourth world title defense since winning it in Atlantic City in 2007. Martinez (44-2-2, 24 KOs), a native of Argentina who fights out of Madrid Spain, has been the WBC super welterweight champion since 2008. Jones (20-0, 16 KOs), of Philadelphia, Penn., will be featured on the non-televised undercard, defending his title in a 12-round battle against Hector “Hurricane” Muñoz (18-2-1, 11 KOs), of Albuquerque, N.M.
Promoted by Top Rank, in association with DiBella Entertainment and Caesars Atlantic City, remaining Tickets, priced at $350, $200, $100 and $50, can be purchased at the Boardwalk Hall box office, by calling Ticketmaster (800) 736-1420 or online at www.Ticketmaster.com.