|
Showtime Sports to offer secondary audio program (SAP) in
Spanish for February 11 Victor Ortiz vs Andre Berto II...
Alejandro Luna and Raul Marquez to Call the
Action from Ringside
Saturday, Feb.
11, Live at 9
p.m. ET/PT
From The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas,
Nev.
SHOWTIME Sports will
offer secondary audio programming (SAP) in Spanish
for the upcoming Victor Ortiz-Andre Berto II
blockbuster on Saturday, Feb. 11, live on SHOWTIME
(9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast), from the
MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Alejando Luna
will call the play-by-play action and Raul Marquez
will serve as color commentator for the SAP
telecast.
Luna is well known in the
Spanish-language sports community as the on-air
host for Fox Sports en Espanol's coverage of
Mexican Soccer, Copa Santander Libertadores and
Copa Nissan Sudamericana. Luna also serves as Fox
Sports en Espanol's play-by-play announcer for the
Italian Serie A and UEFA Champions League.
Marquez was a representative
for the 1992 U.S. Olympic boxing team in Barcelona,
Spain and is a former International Boxing
Federation (IBF) junior middleweight champion. He
is currently a commentator for various Spanish
boxing broadcasts and helps train his son, Arturo
Marquez, an amateur boxer and Golden Gloves
champion.
Ten months after their classic
slugfest that was named 2011 "Fight of the Year"
(USA Today, Ring Magazine), former World Champions
Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO's), of Ventura, Calif., and Berto (28-1, 22 KO's), of Winter Haven, Fla., will
square off again. The eagerly awaited 12-round
fight is a rematch of a fiercely contested,
multiple-knockdown affair on April 16, 2011, that
Ortiz won by a unanimous decision (114-112, 114-111
and 115-110) while capturing Berto's World Boxing
Council (WBC) 147-pound title. Both fighters were
knocked down twice in the fight, with Berto being
dropped in the first, Ortiz going down a round
later and each of them hitting the deck in a wild
sixth round that many called the "Round of the
Year" for 2011.
"Repeat or Revenge: Ortiz vs. Berto
II"
is the highly anticipated
12-round welterweight rematch of USA Today and Ring
Magazine's 2011 Fight of the Year between former
World Champions "Vicious" Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto which will take place Saturday, Feb. 11 at
the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev. The
event is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and
DiBella Entertainment. It will air live on
SHOWTIME Championship Boxing at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT
(delayed on the west coast). A special three-fight
undercard will air live on SHOWTIME EXTREME
beginning at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west
coast).
Tickets,
priced at $300, $150, $100 and $50, are on sale and
are available at all
Las Vegas
Ticketmaster locations (select Smith's Food and
Drug Centers and Ritmo Latino). Ticket sales are
limited to eight per person. To charge by phone
with a major credit card, call Ticketmaster at
(800) 745-3000
.
Tickets also are available for purchase at
www.mgmgrand.com
or
www.ticketmaster.com.
==Become
BRC's friend in Facebook==
For Fight Recaps between January and June 2010, click
here...
For Fight Recaps between January and May 2009, click
here...
Fight Recaps - Part I - (January-May 2009)
For Fight Recaps starting June 2009, click
here...
Fight Recaps - Part II - (June-December 2009)
1-25-2012
|