ESPN2's Friday Night Fights will come to the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury, MD on Friday, February 6.
Yes, Salisbury's own Fernando Guerrero (12-0, 11 KO's) will be on the card in the co-featured bout against an opponent to be determined. Boxrec.com and other sites had Guerrero taking on Gabriel Rosado in a scheduled 10-round contest, however, Rosado is unable to take the bout. Also, the number of rounds was not approved by either boxer as the Guerrero camp is still deciding if they will accept an eight or a 10-round contest.
Of course, the last time Guerrero fought in front of his home crowd, he made 7,000 fans proud of their hometown hero with an eight-round unanimous decision over Tyrone Watson on October 3. The bout was also in front of a Showtime (Shobox) nationally-televised audience.
UPDATE: There will be a press conference to officially announce the Guerrero bout at The Black Diamond in Fruitland on Sunday, December 14 at noon. The conference is open to the public with no fee. If you do attend, you are asked to bring a canned food item with you. The cans will be collected and given to local charities.
The main event for this card will be a 10-round bout for the NABA and NABF Light Heavyweight titles. Yusef Mack of New York City by way of Philadelphia, PA (26-2-2, 16 KO's) will carry the NABA title into the bout against NABF titleholder Chris Henry of Houston, TX (23-1, 18 KO's).
Mack won his title against Daniel Judah by 10-round unanimous decision on June 4 in Brooklyn, NY then defended it with a six-round knockout over Omar Pittman on September 26 in Philadelphia.
Henry, who has already held both the NABA and NABF titles simultaneously once before, will be making the second defense of the NABF crown. Henry's last bout was the first successful defense of his title as he won a 12-round unanimous decision over Corey Cummings on November 6 in Dallas, TX. Henry's only loss was a 12-round unanimous decision over Adrian Diaconu for the interim WBC Light Heavyweight crown.
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Gary, how can one get tickets to this event in Salisbury. It sounds like it's going to be a great event.
Big Boxing Fan Chris
I believe tickets will be available through Ticketmaster. I will double check, though and get back to everyone on this. I don't think tickets are on sale yet.
For Fernando's last fight, you had to buy them through the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center's website.
Also, ESPN will be making a mistake if they put on Fernando first. When he fought on Showtime about half the building emptied out after Fernando's bout. The folks around here are big fans of Fernando but not necessarily huge boxing fans. That's good for Fernando but not great for the TV broadcast.
Cool, thanks for the info guys.
Chris
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Hey Digital!
Who's promoting this card?
Prize Fight Promotions will be at least one of the promoters. Last time in October, the card had three promoters.
Tickets can be purchased this week through www.wicomicociviccenter.org or at the box office. Tickets range from $15-$100.
Gary,
I believe I heard Baltimore Boxing will be a co-promoter- though you should double check that before running it.
Cheers,
Tom
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