12 Rounds — World Welterweight Championship
MANNY PACQUIAO vs. JUAN MANUEL MÁRQUEZ
Eight-Division World Champion Three-Division World Champion
General Santos City, Philippines Mexico City, Mexico
53-3-2, 38 KOs 53-5-1, 39 KOs
12 Rounds – World Junior Welterweight Championship
TIMOTHY BRADLEY vs. JOEL CASAMAYOR
World Boxing Organization (WBO) Jr. Welterweight Champion Two-Division World Champion
Palm Springs, California Guantanamo, Cuba/Miramar, Florida
27-0, 11 KOs 38-5-1, 22 KOs
10 Rounds – IBF Latino Junior Welterweight Championship
MIKE ALVARADO vs. BREIDIS PRESCOTT
IBF Latino Jr. Welterweight Champion WBA No. 11 Jr. Welterweight
Denver, Colorado Barranquilla, Colombia
31-0, 22 KOs 24-3, 19 KOs
10 Rounds – NABO Junior Lightweight Championship
LUIS CRUZ vs. JUAN BURGOS
Las Piedras, Puerto Rico Tijuana, México
19-0, 15 KOs 27-1, 19 KOs
When: Saturday, November 12, 2011
Where: MGM Grand Garden Arena
MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tickets: The MGM Grand Garden Arena is sold out. Closed circuit tickets, priced at $50, are on sale and available at all Las Vegas MGM Resorts properties.
Television: PACQUIAO-MARQUEZ III will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View®, beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT in HD where available.
Promoter: PACQUIAO-MARQUEZ III will be promoted by Top Rank, in association with MP Promotions, Márquez Boxing, Tecate and MGM Grand.
BoxingSF Presents “The Winter Championships”
San Francisco, CA – November 1, 2011 – BoxingSF is proud to present it’s highly anticipated event titled “The Winter Championships” which will take place at The Longshoremen’s Hall at Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco on December 2, 2011. This boxing event will feature the brightest and most respected young fighters from numerous boxing clubs located within the greater Bay Area. With over 70 boxing clubs located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California has quickly become a hot-bed of fast-rising fistic talent.
Founder of “BoxingSF” Arturo Gastellum states, “This is where it all starts and this is where the next crop of great Bay Area champions will be cultivated from. The Bay Area is blessed with not one but three current pound-for-pound world champions in Andre Ward, Robert Guerrero and Nonito Donaire. Carina Moreno, Ana Julaton and Ava Knight are world champions in women’s boxing as well. In addition, San Francisco’s Karim Mayfield and Salinas’ Eloy Perez are the current NABO champs in their divisions. We hope that with events such as the ‘Winter Championships’ we can not only find but showcase the next boxing superstars based out of the Bay Area.”
“The Winter Championships” will feature 15 match-ups that will include combatants from boxing clubs located in following counties: San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Contra Costa, and Alameda.
The historic venue of the Longshoremen’s Hall has a viewing capacity of 1,600 spectators. Located in Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco, the venue offers plenty of parking and family friendly outlets surrounding the area. Tickets priced $25 for General Admission and $35 for Assigned Floor Seats, are on sale now. A pre-sale 20 percent discount is available if you order now…click here. Doors open up at 6:00 p.m. Happy Hour 6:00-7:00. Fights start at 7:00.
BoxingSF was formed in order to create a professional representation of top-level amateur & professional boxing events to the general public. The San Francisco Bay Area has a rich, deep-rooted history when it comes to the sweet science both on the amateur and the professional level dating back to the 1880s when the Olympic Club created a wave of Boxing schools & events. The mission of this group is to preserve, protect, and promote the original “Gentleman’s” sport for many generations to come.
November 23 Marks The Return of Popular Hitz Boxing Series
Hitz Boxing’s upcoming “Thanksgiving Eve Belvedere Bash” boxing event on Wednesday, November 23, at The Belvedere Banquet in Elk Grove, Illinois, will mark an important rebirth for the sport in Chicago, as it will bring the return after five years of a series of Thanksgiving eve shows that were once wildly popular with boxing fans, as well as celebrities and other members of the city’s socialite scene.
“This is a show we did every year for 15 years straight and it was always a huge success,” recounts Hitz Boxing Founder, Bobby Hitz.
Hitz, also active in the restaurant and bar trade, says he observed how busy the night before Thanksgiving was every year and the idea came to him.
“I noticed everyone went out that night, so I said why not give people an evening of fights? It turned into a happening where there were lots of people who would only come to this show every year and bring family from out of town in. It’s a great guy’s night out. One year, I had Butterbean, Ken Norton, Tommy Hearns, Bobby Czyz, and Jake LaMotta there, all guys in town for Thanksgiving in Chicago.”
This year’s event will feature Chicago’s comebacking former world title challenger Johnny Lewus (25-4-1, 21 KOs) in an eight-round lightweight bout, plus an undercard that includes Chicago-based undefeated super middleweight Mike Kurzeja (5-0-1, 4 KOs) in a six-round crowd pleaser; power-punching undefeated Chicago heavyweight Dave Latoria (9-0, 5 KOs) in a six-rounder; undefeated Chicago super middleweight Mike “Hollywood” Jimenez (4-0, 3 KOs) will go four; MMA star turned Mike Tyson clone, Chicago cruiserweight Terry Martin (4-0, 4 KOs) will return to the ring for four rounds or less, and in a very special added bonus, the night will kick off with the four-round pro debut of Chicago’s popular super heavyweight Golden Gloves Champion Erick Correa.
Hitz says he’s bringing back his Thanksgiving Eve events after a five-year absence due to popular demand. “It’s been posed to me so many times to bring it back and some of my guys need fights, so it’s a great time to bring it back. The other promoters in town were nice enough not to start doing shows on this date, so I’ll start it back up again. Apparently, people love to watch guys knock the stuffing out of each other on the day before Thanksgiving.”
All opponents will be announced soon.
Tickets for the “Thanksgiving Eve Belvedere Bash” are $100 Ringside and $35 G/A and are available at fanfueled.com or the HITZ TIX HOTLINE: 630-442-4203. All bouts are subject to change. On fight night, doors open at 6:30 pm and the action starts at 7:30.
The Belvedere Banquet is located at 1170 West Devon in Elk Grove.
Visit www.hitzboxing.com for more information.