Super middleweight star Edison Miranda speaks before his comeback fight against Emmanuel Esparza on January 14th at the Seminole Hard Rock LIVE Arena in Hollywood, Florida.
The day before super middleweight star Edison “Pantera” Miranda and junior middleweight contender Sechew “The Iron Horse” Powell step into the ring to begin their 2009 campaigns, the two fistic standouts met the press to discuss their pivotal bouts on Wednesday’s “Hard Knocks at The Hard Rock” event at the Seminole Paradise Hard Rock Live Arena in Hollywood, Florida. Tickets for “Hard Knocks at The Hard Rock”, which is headlined by the return of junior middleweight contender Sechew Powell against Christian Lloyd Joseph, a super middleweight bout between Edison Miranda and Manuel Esparza, and the debut of 2008 Puerto Rican Olympian Jonathan Gonzalez, are priced at $152, $102, $52, and $22, and are available now at the Hard Rock Live Box Office or TicketMaster.com. Also in action on January 14th will be highly touted Cuban defector Stalinn Lopez in his pro debut and Star Boxing standout Yathomas Riley.
Former world cruiserweight champion Juan Carlos Gomez (44-1) will face WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (36-2) on March 21st at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart, Germany. Gomez started his preparation in L.A. four weeks ago. Along with his coaches Orlando Cuellar and Bülent Baser "The Black Panther" is currently working on his fitness basics before starting his technical and tactical training next week in Hamburg, Germany. The team has also planned to go into a training camp in Spain for three or four weeks. Fightnews.com recently spoke to Cuellar about Gomez' preparations.
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World Boxing Organization 140-pound champion Kendall Holt (24-2, 13 KOs) meets undefeated junior welterweight challenger Demetrius Hopkins (28-0-1, 11 KOs) in the main event of Saturday's special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation, live from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, (SHOWTIME at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). Holt was originally scheduled to face former 140-pound champ Ricardo Torres in a rubber-match, but Torres withdrew from the fight on Monday. The undefeated 28-year-old Hopkins, the nephew of former middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, is in peak condition as he was originally scheduled to fight Germaine Sanders on the undercard of Saturday's bout.
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