Shawn Porter & Alfonso Gomez Set To Fight In Co-Featured Boxing Bout, Live On SHOWTIME
Shawn Porter & Alfonso Gomez Set To Fight In Co-Featured Boxing Bout, Live On SHOWTIME By Media Report (July 20, 2012) Doghouse Boxing - Tweet
UNBEATEN SHAWN PORTER AND VETERAN ALFONSO GOMEZ
SET TO FIGHT IN CO-FEATURED BOUT TO
ROBERT GUERRERO VS. SELCUK AYDIN
WORLD TITLE SHOWDOWN
Saturday, July 28 Event At HP Pavilion At San Jose
Live on SHOWTIME®
LOS ANGELES (July 20, 2012) - "Showtime" is coming to SHOWTIME on Saturday, July 28
when top-rated welterweight prospect "Showtime" Shawn Porter steps into
the ring at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., against his toughest foe
to date, two-time world title challenger Alfonso Gomez for the NABO
Welterweight Title.
Porter
vs. Gomez will open the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast followed
by the homecoming main event between Bay Area favorite and former
Three-Division World Champion Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero and number one
rated WBC welterweight contender Selcuk Aydin for the vacant WBC
Interim Welterweight World Championship.
Guerrero
vs. Aydin is presented by Golden Boy Promotions in association with
Arena-Box Promotion and sponsored by Corona, DeWalt Tools and AT&T.
The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast will air live at 10:00 p.m.
ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast) with Shawn Porter facing Alfonso Gomez
for the NABO Welterweight title in the co-featured fight. Preliminary
fights will air live on SHOWTIME EXTREME® beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Tickets,
priced at $252, $127, $62 and $26, are available for purchase at the HP
Pavilion ticket office, by calling 1-800-745-3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com.
With
over 275 victories to his name, Akron, Ohio's Shawn Porter (19-0, 14
KO's) is known as one of the best amateur boxers of this era, and now
he's proving that he has the goods in the professional game as well.
Unbeaten in 19 fights since his debut in 2008, Porter has already nabbed
two regional titles, the NABO junior middleweight crown and the NABF
welterweight belt, en route to announcing his arrival at the elite level
of the game. On April 28, he scored his first win of 2012 with a sixth
round technical knockout over Patrick Thompson, but he now has his
sights set on making a definitive statement by beating perennial
contender Alfonso Gomez on July 28.
An
undisputed fan favorite whose action-packed battles have thrilled fans
for years, Alfonso Gomez (23-5-2, 12 KO's) has come a long way since his
stint on NBC's boxing reality show "The Contender," and the 31-year-old
from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico who resides in Los Angeles has plenty
to offer in the welterweight division. The winner of five of his last
six fights with his only loss coming in a courageous effort against
154-pound World Champion Canelo Alvarez last September, Gomez knows that
Porter will meet him in the center of the ring and fight on July 28,
and that's just the way he likes it.
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