VICTOR BARRAGAN STEPS IN TO FACE WORLD RANKED & UNDEFEATED CRUISERWEIGHT RAN NAKASH ON JULY 14TH AT THE ARENA IN PHILADELPHIA
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2008 Olympic Gold Medal winner Felix Diaz to battle Emanuel Augustus in Co-Feature
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PHILADELPHIA (July 7, 2010)—Tough nosed cruiserweight spoiler, Victor Barragan will now be the opponent for world ranked and undefeated Cruiserweight Ran Nakash on Wednesday night July 14th at The Arena in South Philadelphia.
The original opponent, former WBA Light Heavyweight champion Lou Del Valle was supposed to come to Philadelphia to get his medical examinations last week but never stepped on his plane from Florida where he had been training.
The card is promoted by No Limits Promotions in association with Joey Eye Boxing and will be the inaugural fight card of the new Comcast Boxing Series.
Barragan, twenty-eight years of Oxnard, California has a record of 11-5 with three knockouts.
After losing his pro debut, Barragan won eight straight fights with the best win coming against Villi Bloomfield (7-1) on March 31, 2007.
Barragan then stepped up the competition and dropped three straight fights to the likes of Eric Fields (7-0); heavyweight Evans Quinn (14-2) and Kevin Reynolds (7-1) in a bout that was televised on ESPN 2.
That didn’t dissuade Barragan as he then went on a three fight winning streak as he defeated undefeated Patrick Liles (7-0-1); Henry Namauu (3-2) and a shocking seventh round knockout over former cruiserweight world champion “King” Arthur Williams (46-15-1).
In his last bout, Barragan dropped a close split decision to prospect Nick Iannuzzi (14-1) on March 5th in Iannuzzi’s hometown of Tampa, Florida.
Nakash (24-0, 18 KO’s) is now ranked number-thirteen by the WBC and a win over Barragan will forge him closer to realizing his dream of winning a world championship.
In the co-feature, 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist, Felix Diaz (5-0, 3 KO’s) will take grizzled veteran and fan favorite Emanuel Augustus.
Augustus, 38-32-6 with twenty knockouts and has fought just about everyone from the Lightweight division during his sixteen year career.
The Thirty-five year old has been in the ring with former world champions such as Jesus Chavez, John John Molina, Floyd Mayweather, Leonard Dorin, Leavander Johnson and David Diaz.
The list is just as impressive in terms of title contenders, challengers and prospects.
Augustus is known for his crowd pleasing yet unorthodox style for which he has made him a staple on network television.
On July 13, 2001, Augustus engaged in one of the most memorable fight‘s this decade as he and Mickey Ward fought an incredible fight that is till played on ESPN Classic.
Augustus has fought in The United States, Puerto Rico, Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom, Canada, Russia and Australia.
Augustus, who has been known to take fight on very short notice and sometimes able to pull off the upset victory, will be fighting in Philadelphia for the third time and is 1-1 with his latest foray to “The City of Brotherly Love” being a ten round unanimous decision defeat to Almazbek Raimkulov on January 11, 2007 in a bout that Augustus took on short notice.
Augustus has dropped three in a row which includes his last bout where he was stopped in nine rounds to undefeated prospect Ruslan Provodnikov on May 21st in a bout that was televised on ESPN 2. Once again, Augustus took that bout on short notice.
2008 Olympic Bronze Medalist, Vyacheslav Glazkov (5-0, 3 KO’s) of Ukraine will take on the widely popular Mark “Oak Tree” Brown (15-3, 7 KO’s) of Salam, NJ in a Heavyweight bout scheduled for six rounds.
Undefeated Russian Middleweight, Maks Liminov (12-0, 8 KO’s) will take on Julius Fogle (15-5, 10 KO’s) of Cary, NC in a bout scheduled for six rounds.
Undefeated Russian Super Flyweight, Rustam Nabeev (5-0) will take on an opponent to be named in a four round bout.
Former world Jr. Amateur champion, Joey Dawejko (3-0, 1 KO) will take on an opponent to be named in a four round Heavyweight bout.
Undefeated Israeli Lightweight, Oz Goldenberg (1-0) will take on debuting Mike Latorre of Scranton, PA
William Miranda (1-0) of Allentown, PA will take on debuting Carmen Marrero of Readinbg, PA in a four round Heavyweight bout.
Former Penn State offensive lineman, Imani Bell will be making his pro debut against Lee Thomas (1-3) of Saginaw, Michigan in a Heavyweight bout scheduled rounds.
Tickets for this memorable night of boxing are priced at $100, $75, and $50 and can be purchased at following locals:
Peltz Boxing (2501 Brown Street) 215- 765 -0922
The Arena (7 West Ritner St.) 267-687-7560
Joey Eye 267-304-9399
Don Elbaum 610-933-7510
The Arena is located at 7 West Ritner Street in Philadelphia