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NIGHT OF WORLD TITLE ACTION SET FOR THIS
SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 28 IN QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
LUCIAN BUTE AND LIBRADO
ANDRADE BATTLE FOR
IBF SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT WORLD TITLE &
ALI FUNEKA AND JOAN GUZMAN
FIGHT FOR
IBF LIGHTWEIGHT WORLD TITLE
TELEVISED LIVE ON HBO'S
"BOXING AFTER DARK"
QUEBEC CITY,
CANADA - November 27 - A few days after
the United States celebrated Thanksgiving,
Canadians will be celebrating one of the biggest
sporting events ever to land in Quebec City with
an evening of non-stop boxing action highlighted
by the HBO Boxing After Dark World Title
Doubleheader featuring Lucian Bute
defending his world super middleweight title in
a highly-anticipated rematch against top
contender Librado Andrade and
the dangerous Ali Funeka
taking on former Two-Division World Champion
Joan Guzman in a vacant IBF
lightweight title bout. All
of the bouts are set and the fighters are ready
for battle, this Saturday, November 28 at the
Pepsi Colisee in Quebec City, Canada and live on
HBO's "Boxing After Dark" at 10:00pm ET/PT.
Montreal's local hero
originally from Galati, Romania and IBF World
Super Middleweight Champion Lucian
Bute (24-0-0, 19 KO's) and IBF number one
ranked supper middleweight contender
Librado Andrade (28-2-0, 21 KO's) who is
originally from Jesus Del Monte, Guanajuato,
Mexico who now resides in La Habra, California,
will do battle in a 12 round IBF World Title
Bout. The mandatory bout
will be a rematch of an explosive war that ended
in controversy when the undefeated Bute barely
survived a 12th round knockdown in
the fight's waning seconds to win a decision.
Bute is ready to show why there should be
no doubt he won their first fight, while Andrade
is hungry to show why he feels he won the first
fight by beating Bute this Saturday.
East London's rugged and hard punching
Ali Funeka (30-2-2, 25 KO's)
will face a tough test in a 12 round vacant IBF
lightweight world title bout against the
undefeated and very experienced former Two-Time
World Champion Joan Guzman
(29-0, 17 KO's) of Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic. Funeka, the number
one ranked IBF lightweight will face the number
two ranked IBF lightweight in Guzman in an all
out battle for supremacy in the very competitive
lightweight division.
The undercard is packed with exciting bouts
featuring some of boxing's top undefeated
prospects from around the world.
Undefeated lightweight Pier
Olivier Cote (8-0, 6 KO's) of
Charlesbourg, Canada will see action in a 10
round bout against St. John's, Canada
Jason Hayward (6-7-1, 2
KO's). In a battle of
undefeated middleweight prospects,
Craig McEwan (16-0, 9 KO's) of Edinburgh,
Scotland and Chula Vista, California's
James Parison (12-0, 3 KO's)
will face off in an eight round bout.
Opening up the show will top undefeated prospect
Keith Thurman (10-0, 10 KO's)
of Clearwater, Florida facing Montreal's
Leonardo Rojas (7-8-3, 2
KO's) in a welterweight eight rounder as well as
a six round welterweight bout between
Saint-Emile, Canada's Kevin Bizier
(6-0, 3 KO's) and Patrick Cape
(6-8, 3 KO's) of St. Louis, Minnesota.
Bute vs. Andrade II is
presented by Golden Boy Promotions and InterBox,
with
Funeka
vs. Guzman
being presented in association with Gary Shaw
Productions and Cedric Kushner's Gotham Boxing.
Both bouts will be held on Saturday,
November 28, 2009 at the Colisee Pepsi in Quebec
City, Canada and will
air
live on HBO's
"Boxing After Dark"
beginning at 10:00pm ET/PT.
For more
information, please visit,
www.goldenboypromotions.com.
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