Returns Home To Face Knockout Specialist Lucas Matthysse On June 25 at The Family Arena in St. Charles
Don King Will Make Missouri History by Presenting Four World Championships. Including Undefeated Ryan “The Irish Outlaw” Coyne in His First World Title Fight
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ST. CHARLES, Mo.-Promoter Don King will bring Devon Alexander “The Great” (21-1, 13 KOs) back to the St. Louis area on June 25 to face a significant test in his hometown from noted Argentine knockout artist and World Boxing Organization No.-3 ranked contender Lucas Matthysse (28-1, 26 KOs) at The Family Arena in St. Charles, Mo.
King will support the Alexander-Matthysse main event with a history-making fight card that will mark the first time four world championships have been presented in Missouri during a single event.
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Yvon Michel
Thank you, everybody, for joining on for this conference call. First, I would like to thank all our partners for this event HBO, Golden Boy Promotions, Gary Shaw Promotions, and InterBox for helping us to put on a very exceptional show here in Montreal. We are ten days from the fight. Next week is fight week, and everyday there will be activities. It’s going to be a boxing week in Montreal. We will have public trainings, press conferences, the weigh-in, and then the event.
It is going to be a great show. We have nine fights that are going to be shown, especially the two great fights starting with Chad Dawson vs. Adrian Diaconu. Both are former WBC Light Heavyweight champions. They will try to qualify themselves to fight for the title again. Then there is the great rematch of the fight between Pascal and Hopkins which took place on December 18 of last year. So, Jean Pascal will be trying again to retain his title against Bernard Hopkins, who will try to make history once again by trying to be the oldest boxer in history to ever win a world championship title.
Boxing should have learned its lessons even before history repeated itself.
Except for some greedy and carnivorous pockets, what is something good for the sport and fight fans that can come out of a ring brush between a living legend in his prime and a future hall-of- famer at the tail-end of his boxing career?
We are back to the fundamentals of sport after all is said and done reviewing the just
concluded May 7th farce at the MGM Grand.
Boxing as a sport must not lose it’s element of competition for competitiveness is one
of few things that cannot be compromised in any sport with the worship of King Darius’
bust or even a reverent bow at any alluring altar of the Golden Calf down the hill of
senseless revelry in the arena of game or fight mismatches. Read More… «SEVEN WORTHY FOES TO CHALLENGE PACMAN»
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Bernard, I think we all know that you should have already made history, back in December. It was not a good decision. I think most of us know that you won that fight. That said, what would this mean to you to break George’s record? What would it mean to boxing overall?
B. Hopkins
For me, personally, it’s a great achievement to be still doing what I do at a high level and to be able to do it and make history at the same time. Now that I’m here, it’s more appreciated to me to last this long in the game. This is a game where if you get 10 years out of this sport, you’re considered lucky. So, to get two decades and come upon history at least four or five times in my career with the defenses as a middleweight and of course, I beat Tarver to become the only middleweight to become a light heavyweight champion. I mean, you put all this stuff together and then you look at what I’m ready to do now, next Saturday, with the opportunity to surpass George Foreman with 190 days outside of when he beat the Michael Moorer. As Jim Lampley said, “It happened; it happened on HBO.”
Returns Home To Face Knockout Specialist Lucas Matthysse On June 25 at The Family Arena in St. Charles
JEAN PASCAL MEDIA CONFERENCE CALL TRANSCRIPT
SEVEN WORTHY FOES TO CHALLENGE PACMAN
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