Boxcino 2014 Champions Monroe Jr., Petrov on ESPN Friday Night Fights and Noche de Combates January 16
\nBoxcino 2015 Fighters and Matchups to be Announced on Friday\u2019s Telecast <\/p>\n
In anticipation of this year\u2019s Boxcino 2015 tournament, the January 16 edition of ESPN Friday Night Fights presented by Corona Extra and ESPN Deportes\u2019 Noche de Combates presentado por Corona Extra will feature Boxcino 2014 middleweight champion Willie \u201cEl Mongoose\u201d Monroe Jr. (18-1, 6 KOs) and Boxcino 2014 lightweight champion Petr \u201cEl Zar\u201d Petrov (35-4-2, 16 KOs) in co-main events. Monroe will square off in a 10-round bout against veteran Bryan \u201cThe Warrior\u201d Vera (23-8, 14 KOs), while Petrov will meet lightweight contender \u201cHammerin\u2019\u201d Hank Lundy (25-4-1, 12 KOs) in a 10-round match. Friday\u2019s show from the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y., will air live at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2, broadband Spanish-language ESPN Deportes+ and WatchESPN. ESPN Deportes will air the fights on Saturday, January 17, at 8 p.m. The card is promoted by Banner Promotions.<\/p>\n
Commentators:
\nJoe Tessitore will be ringside with analyst Teddy Atlas describing the action for ESPN2, while studio host Todd Grisham (@GrishamESPN) will provide the latest boxing news and information. Delvin Rodr\u00edguez and Pablo Viruega will call the fights for Noche de Combates (Fight Night) on ESPN Deportes, while Leopoldo Gonz\u00e1lez and Claudia Trejos will anchor the studio. Bilingual reporter Bernardo Osuna (@osunaespn) will present live interviews and reports for both shows.<\/p>\n
Boxcino 2015 Fighters and Matchups to be Announced on Telecast:
\nFighters and matchups for this year\u2019s Boxcino 2015 tournament \u2014 featuring fighters in the heavyweight and junior middleweight divisions \u2014 will be announced during this week\u2019s Friday Night Fights and Noche de Combates telecasts (boxers are paired and the brackets created by random drawing). <\/p>\n
Co-Main Events:
\nRochester, N.Y.\u2019s Monroe Jr., the son of former middleweight contender Willie Monroe, has won his last eight fights, including his last\u2014a 10-round unanimous decision win over Brandon Adams to win the Boxcino 2014 middleweight belt. Vera, who hails from Texas, enters Friday\u2019s fight with wins over former junior middleweight titlists Sergio Mora and Sergey Dzinziruk. <\/p>\n
Pertov, who scored an eighth-round TKO victory over Fernando Carcamo in his last fight to win the Boxcino 2014 lightweight belt, is looking to score another victory when he faces Philadelphia\u2019s Lundy, who has wins over lightweight titlist Richar Abril and former lightweight titlist David Diaz. <\/p>\n
Opening Fight:
\nFridays show will open with a four-round matchup between Welterweights Greg Jackson (3-1-1, 1 KO) of N.J. and Maryland\u2019s Cornelius Whitlock (3-1-2, 2 KOs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
n anticipation of this year\u2019s Boxcino 2015 tournament, the January 16 edition of ESPN Friday Night Fights presented by Corona Extra and ESPN Deportes\u2019 Noche de Combates presentado por Corona Extra will feature Boxcino 2014 middleweight champion Willie \u201cEl Mongoose\u201d Monroe Jr. (18-1, 6 KOs) and Boxcino 2014 lightweight champion Petr \u201cEl Zar\u201d Petrov (35-4-2, 16 KOs) in co-main events. Monroe will square off in a 10-round bout against veteran Bryan \u201cThe Warrior\u201d Vera (23-8, 14 KOs), while Petrov will meet lightweight contender \u201cHammerin\u2019\u201d Hank Lundy (25-4-1, 12 KOs) in a 10-round match. Friday\u2019s show from the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y., will air live at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2, broadband Spanish-language ESPN Deportes+ and WatchESPN. ESPN Deportes will air the fights on Saturday, January 17, at 8 p.m. The card is promoted by Banner Promotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[143,203,211],"class_list":["post-8503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bryan-vera","tag-petr-petrov","tag-willie-monroe-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8504,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions\/8504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}