Okay folks, here's the announcement I promised you. Remember when I did my "Postscripts from Pikesville" post, I said that there were some developments that I couldn't get into at that point? Well, this info exceeded what I originally had in mind.
As I said, there will be three major bouts in June involving Beltway Boxers and these bouts will make June 2006 one of the most important months in recent Beltway Boxing history. According to the people involved, these bouts are signed and ready to go.
Now, here are those bouts.
1. Wednesday, June 7 at the Borgata Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, NJ. Landover, MD junior welterweight Michael Warrick (18-3, 11 KO's) will be back in action as he faces undefeated Demetrius Hopkins (23-0-1, nine KO's). This bout will be on ESPN2's Wednesday Night Fights.
2. Saturday, June 10 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. NABA Featherweight champion Eric "Mighty Mouse" Aiken of Forestville, MD (15-4, 12 KO's) will take on Terdsak Jandereng of Thailand (23-1, 15 KO's) in a WBA title elimination match. This bout is scheduled to be a co-feature bout on the Bernard Hopkins-Antonio Tarver card.
3. Sunday, June 18 in California. Lamont "Bay" Pearson of Capitol Heights, MD (23-3-1, 12 KO's) faces former IBF Super Featherweight champion Robbie "Bomber" Peden (25-3, 14 KO's) in an IBF title elimination match. This bout will be a rematch of an August 2003 contest for the USBA Super Featherweight title. Peden stopped Pearson in the seventh round of that contest. That's one of the bouts where Pearson's hand troubles started.
I'm not sure where in California this bout will take place yet.
Of course, anything can happen to change these bouts, but if they take place it will make or break this year for boxing along the Beltway. For the past 10 months, I have said that boxing in this area is in a transitional state. These three bouts will decide how far we have to go to get out of this transition.
Of course, you will hear from all three of the boxers involved in the very near future in exclusive audio interviews.
There is one other teasing bit of news in the area. I won't go into detail, but there is some exciting news concerning Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson. Later this week, Johnson will be breaking the news to you exclusively here, but I will say that he is currently managing Michael Warrick and that is just a small part of the news. But there is much more to this story and I want him to be the one to tell you!!
As I said at the beginning of the year, we are in for some busy and some exciting times along the Beltway. Make sure you're along for the ride!!
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3 comments:
2 questions:
1) Is that Warrick fight going to be live or taped and shown on another Wednesday?
2) Will the Aiken and Pearson fights be televised, and if so, when and where?
As far as I know, the Warrick fight will be live on ESPN2 on June 7.
The Aiken fight is scheduled to be part of the HBO PPV telecast on June 10.
I'm not 100 percent sure, but the Pearson bout may be a Fox Sports Net telecast since that is a Sunday.
Thanks Ross, I will post the correction.
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