MARGARITO AND GARCIA ATTRACT
HUNDREDS TO AGUASCALIENTES PUBLIC WORKOUTS
Press Release: May 5, 2010
Three-time world champion ANTONIO “Tony”
MARGARITO was welcomed by hundreds of fans for his public workout
yesterday in Aguascalientes. The “Tijuana Tornado” worked for nearly an
hour under the hot sun in the Tecate Box Tour ring before signing
autographs and taking pictures with fans for over one hour.
“I can really feel the support of the fans
here in Aguascalientes. And I have promised them a great fight. I can’t
wait to get into the ring Saturday night,” said Margarito, after the
workout at the site of the San Marcos Fair.
Margarito will take on ROBERTO “Amenaza”
GARCIA in the main event of Latin Fury 14, Top Rank's championship
extravaganza which will be seen in the U.S. Live on Pay-Per-View this
Saturday night beginning at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT.
“I feel good and I am ready to get back to
work. It’s been a long time away from the ring and I am very happy to be
back,” said Margarito, who has not fought since January of 2009 after
losing his world title to Shane Mosley.
After Margarito’s workout, Garcia had his
own workout and was also well received by the fans as he worked with his
trainer Eric Brown.
“This is my championship fight. I have
worked very hard to get to this point and will not let this great
opportunity pass by. I have come to win this fight and that is what I
will do on Saturday night,” said Garcia.
The pay-per-view undercard will feature
World Boxing Association (WBA) interim super featherweight champion
Jorge Solis (38-2-2), of Guadalajara, Mexico, defending his title
against top-10 contender and one-time world title challenger Mario
Santiago (21-2-1, 14 KOs), of Ponce, Puerto Rico; top-five contenders
Urbano Antillion (27-1, 20 KOs), of Maywood, Calif., and Rene "Super
Chiroz" Gonzalez (27-1-1, 21 KOs), of Managua, Nicaragua, battle it out
in a WBA lightweight title elimination bout; and the pay-per-view debut
of flyweight sensation Alfonso López (4-0, 2 KOs), of Mexico City,
Mexico, the son of legendary world champion and Mexican icon Ricardo
López.
Margarito (37-6, 27 KOs), of Tijuana,
Mexico, captured his first world title in 2002, winning the vacant World
Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title with a tenth-round TKO of
Antonio Diaz. He reigned as WBO champion for five years, successfully
defending his title seven times – five by knockout – including victories
over world champions Kermit Cintron, Andrew Lewis and Joshua Clottey.
After losing the title to Paul Williams in 2007, Margarito dethroned
International (IBF) welterweight champion Cintron in a rematch, knocking
him out in their 2008 fight. Margarito claimed his third welterweight
title when he stopped undefeated WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto
in the eleventh round of their July 2008 battle, arguably the fight of
the year.
Garcia (28-2, 21 KOs), a native of Reynosa,
Tamaulipas, Mexico who fights out of Weslaco, Texas, enters this fight
riding a five-year, 14-bout unbeaten streak. Garcia possesses impressive
power in both fists, where 75% of his victories have come by way of
knockout and many of those stoppages produced by devastating body shots.
During his impressive streak, Garcia has captured the Caribbean Boxing
Federation interim welterweight title and the Texas welterweight title.
Aguascalientes organizes the largest
festival held in Mexico, the San Marcos Fair, which takes place from the
middle of April to the beginning of May. The celebration was held
originally in the San Marcos church neighborhood, and its magnificent
neoclassical garden; since then, it has greatly expanded to cover a huge
area of exposition spaces, bullrings, nightclubs, theaters, performance
stages, theme park, hotels, convention centers, and other attractions.
It attracts almost 7 million visitors to Aguascalientes every year.
The
suggested price for the Latin Fury 14 pay-per-view is $39.95.
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