LOS ANGELES, July 27 – When fans tune in to this Saturday’s exciting “Sabados De Corona”/Golden Boy Presents doubleheader via AT&T Uverse in the United States, not only will they be getting some heated action from bantamweights Leo Santa Cruz and Everth Briceño and minimumweights Manuel Jimenez and Mario Rodriguez, but they could also win great prizes, including tickets to one of the biggest fights of the year, the September 17 world championship showdown between World Boxing Council (WBC) Super Welterweight World Champion Canelo Alvarez and former “Contender” star Alfonso Gomez.
Five prizes will be up for grabs for fans who tune in to the July 30 championship doubleheader via www.att.net/boxeo – four gloves signed by both Canelo Alvarez and Alfonso Gomez, and the grand prize, a pair of tickets to their September 17 world title fight at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. To participate, viewers can listen for a trivia question asked during this Saturday’s broadcast and send the correct answer to GoldenBoyPresents@gmail.com in order to automatically be entered to win one of these spectacular prizes.
The doubleheader is presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Box Latino and is sponsored by Corona. AT&T* is exclusively delivering the series in the U.S. across three screens (TV, Online and Mobile) to AT&T U-verse members. The U-verse broadcasts will air live at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT on AT&T U-verse® TV, U-verse Online at www.att.net/boxeo and, for subscribers to the U-verse Live TV mobile application, on qualifying mobile phones.**
In Saturday’s headline attraction from Mazatlan International Center in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, top bantamweight prospect Leo Santa Cruz will look to extend his six-fight knockout streak when he defends his WBC Youth interim championship for the first time against Nicaragua’s Everth Briceño in a 12 round bout. The co-main event features Mexicali’s Manuel Jimenez against Guasave’s Mario Rodriguez in a 12 round all-Mexico showdown for the vacant NABF minimumweight title.
WBO announces judges and referee for Baysangurov vs. Miranda
World Boxing Organization (WBO), by president Francisco “Paco” Valcarcel, announced today the referee and judges who will work on Junior Middleweight Interim Title bout between Russian Zauerbek Baysangurov and Brazilian Mike Miranda this Saturday, July 30, at the Sportpalace in Odessa, Ukraine.
Valcarcel reported that the referee for this bout will be veteran Robert Byrd from United States of America. The judges for the fight are Manuel Oliver Palomo from Spain, Clark Sammartino from USA and Zoltan Enyedi from Hungary. WBO Supervisor will be Hungarian Istvan Kovacs.
The 154lb WBO champion is Serhiy Dzinziruk, but the division has been inactive due to Dzinziruk legal issues with his former promoter, and Baysangurov (25-1, 19 KOs) and Miranda (34-3, 31 KOs) will fight for the Interim belt this Saturday. Then, winner of Baysangurov-Miranda will face winner of Dzinziruk vs Lukas Konecny- initially scheduled for September 30- 90 days after September 30.
Remember, the 24th World Boxing Organization (WBO) Annual Convention, to be held in Puerto Rico in 2011, is scheduled to October 24th to 29th. For reservations at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, can call 1 787 253-1700 Ext. 4161, 1 800 241-3333 or accesing http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/SanJuan/Default.htm.
BORN AND BRED Opens Downtown Independent – August 19
A Film by Justin Frimmer
Wednesday, August 3 at 11am
The Downtown Independent 251 S. Main St. – Los Angeles
(213) 617-1033 www.downtownindependent.com
This potent story of a new generation of young boxers in East Los Angeles, the capital of American boxing, chronicles (in a raw verité style) the lives of three teenage boys – the fierce 12 year old, Victor Pasillas, and the 15 year old twins Oscar and Javier Molina, their trainers, their families and their years in the tough ranks of amateur boxing—where boys are made into men and Olympic dreams are made and broken. Shot over a period of four years and amid the immigration protests of 2006, the film tells a definitive story of immigration in a city where the new Latino population is surging. BORN AND BRED illustrates how the sport of sports—boxing—can lift the persistent few out of poverty as it did for so many other American ethnic groups. But, the stakes are high and these young champions know it. Says Pasillas, who has not lost a fight in three years, “When I get in that ring, I look across it to see if my opponent has any heart. If he doesn’t, I take him out right away. If he does…I take it away from him. I make sure he has no heart.”
RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes; Not Rated (contains strong language)
BORN AND BRED OPENS August 19 at LA’s THE DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT and NY’S QUAD CINEMA