"SóLO
BOXEO TECATE" ON MAY 7 FROM THE ARENA
Press Release: May 4, 2010
'The City of Brotherly Love's' finest will
be back home and ready to fight on Friday, May 7 when Danny Garcia and
the Dargan brothers - Karl and Mike - step through the ropes at The
Arena (formerly The New Alhambra) in Philadelphia in featured bouts on
the next edition of TeleFutura's "Sólo Boxeo Tecate".
In the 10 round main event, welterweight
Danny "Swift" Garcia looks to keep his unbeaten record intact when he
takes on veteran Christopher "Kid Kayo" Fernandez. The co-featured bout
of the evening will see lightweight Karl "Dynamite" Dargan in a six
round bout against Miami's Jorge Ruiz, and in a junior middleweight
battle scheduled for four rounds, Mike "Sharp" Dargan battles Jason
Montgomery.
Garcia vs. Fernandez is presented by Golden
Boy Promotions and Joe Hand Promotions and sponsored by Cerveza Tecate.
Doors open at 7:00pm, the first bell rings at 7:30pm and the TeleFutura
broadcast begins at 11:30pm ET/PT.
Tickets, priced at $100, $65, and $45, are
on sale now at The Arena Box Office and by calling 215-364-9000.
Perhaps the top junior welterweight
prospect in the game today, 22-year-old Danny Garcia (16-0, 10 KO's) has
passed all his tests since turning professional in 2007. He has gone 6-0
in since the beginning of 2009 with big wins over Pavel Miranda, Enrique
Colin and Ashley Theopane. Now, he returns home on May 7 to dazzle his
Philly fans once again.
Salt Lake City's Christopher Fernandez
(18-9-1, 10 KO's) has been the measuring stick to determine which of
today's top young fighters can graduate to the next level. Having
already faced world champions Devon Alexander and Paulie Malignaggi, the
34-year-old "Kid Kayo" is looking for a win on May 7 and to show the
world that Danny Garcia is not ready for prime time.
Seen by many boxing insiders as a future
world champion, Karl Dargan (7-0, 3 KO's) is back in Philadelphia to
show his hometown fans what he picked up while training in the camp of a
current Welterweight World Champion Sugar Shane Mosley. One of the
nation's top amateurs for years, Dargan is staying busy and ready to
make his move on the best at 135 pounds in 2010. In the opposite corner
on Friday will be Miami veteran Jorge Ruiz (7-11-1).
Back in action after a nearly five year
layoff, 27-year-old Mike Dargan (1-1) is also returning from an intense
training camps with future Hall of Famers, Bernard Hopkins and Mosley.
Dargan has a renewed determination to make it to the top, and the junior
middleweight standout is sure to be trouble for Hayward, California's
unbeaten Jason Montgomery (1-0).
In off-TV action, Philadelphia will also be
well represented by middleweight Latif Mundy (8-2, 3 KO's) and debuting
154-pounder Julian Williams, who will take on Trenton, NJ's Joshua
Onyango (15-18-1, 9 KO's) and Brockton, MA's Antonio Fernandez (0-4)
respectively.
A cruiserweight four round bout will see
unbeaten Reading, Pennsylvania prospect Julio Matthews (9-0, 5 KO's)
putting his perfect record on the line against an opponent to be named.
Two light heavyweight bouts are on tap,
with unbeaten Utica, NY native Andy Mejias (5-0, 1 KO) taking on Dover,
Delaware's Todd Eriksson (1-3-1, 1 KO), and Morristown, New Jersey's
Andre Espeut facing Philly battler Charles Hayward (2-2, 1 KO). Both
fights are scheduled for four rounds.
Opening
the show will be a four round junior lightweight fight between New
Jersey's own Jose Ortiz (3-2, 1 KO) and Jason Sosa (2-0, 1 KO).
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