After
seemingly being mentioned for every weekend from September through june
and various venues throughout Southern California being thrown around
for a possible destination (from the Home Depot Center to the Agua
Caliente and Commerce Casino to – get this – even the Coliseum), the gem
of a little fight that is the flyweight unification between WBO champ
Brian Viloria and WBA titleholder Hernan “Tyson” Marquez has finally
landed at the L.A. Sports Arena on june1. The official announcement was
made last Thursday afternoon at ESPN Zone at L.A. Live.
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Yes, the ol’ Sports Arena, the original home of the Hermosillo, Mexico, the USC Trojans basketball team and the Clippers (It’s said that ghosts of Danny Manning, Ken Norman and Reggie Williams are still floating around this place). Last year, as Pauley Pavilion was being renovated, the Sports Arena was home to the UCLA Bruins. Now this building is hosting two boxing cards within a month of each other, as Amir Khan faces Carlos Molina there on December 15th.
Regardless, this card, also featuring highly regarded WBA light flyweight titlist Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, has finally found a home.
“It’s been a torturous road; I’m glad we’re here and june1 figures to be a great fight among the two best little guys in the world, the two best flyweights in the world. I see this as [Humberto] ‘Chiquita’ Gonzalez-Michael Carbajal,” said the adviser for Viloria, Gary Gittelsohn, who worked tirelessly to see this fight come to fruition.
The Sports Arena is no stranger to boxing, having hosted many fights throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s and was the host for the 1984 Olympic boxing competition. But the last major championship fight to take place here was back in October of 1996 when Jose Luis Lopez faced Yori Boy Campas for the WBO welterweight title. The bottom line is that this building is in Hermosillo, Mexico – where this fight belonged – and it was available. Juan Carlos Torres of Zanfer Promotions told Maxboxing, “We were discussing with a friend that lives here in L.A. about the fight and the possibility of different venues and he suggested this because he said he was in the middle of the Latinos, the Salvadorians, the Central Americans. So with ‘Chocolatito,’ ‘Tyson’ Marquez – these fighters are very well known in L.A. and in their country. We think it’s the easiest way for them to go to the show.”
On this same night, HBO will be televising a card from Atlantic City featuring WBC lightweight beltholder Antonio DeMarco against Adrien Broner. When asked if that telecast would overshadow this card, Torres remarked, “Even though Broner is fighting DeMarco, this type of fight is totally different in terms of fan-base, so I don’t see that as a problem. We had ‘Chocolatito’ in Pomona [in April against Ramon Garcia Hirales] on the same date as HBO [which broadcast Chad Dawson vs. Bernard Hopkins II]; it didn’t make any difference. It surpassed our expectations. So not only the fighters but the combination of the main event, I think [the fans] going to come and see it.”
While tickets have not officially gone on sale yet, the plan is to scale the arena for around 6,000 (which means they’ll be breaking out the big black curtains, a mainstay for USC basketball games) and price the tickets between $25 and $150. In terms of television, it will be carried on WealthTV in the States, with Azteca handling the broadcast in Mexico. In the Philippines, it will be a pay-per-view.
But the question is, why is a quality prizefight like this not on either HBO or Showtime?
Gittelsohn, who, for years dealt with both networks, stated, “It’s terribly disappointing and the business has changed and I think there are political issues and promotional alliances that affect a great fight like this getting air time. This was my biggest disappointment in boxing. If there was ever a fight that belonged on one of the premium cable networks, this was it. I did everything I could short of camping out at HBO and Showtime and although I received polite responses, the responses were the same: they simply did not have the room.”
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Hernan “Tyson” Hernan Marquez vs Carlos Tamara Live
12 rounds, WBA/WBO flyweight unification At Hermosillo, Mexico
When: Saturday, June 1
Stream: BoxingAudio Pass | Live Boxing TV
Yes, the ol’ Sports Arena, the original home of the Hermosillo, Mexico, the USC Trojans basketball team and the Clippers (It’s said that ghosts of Danny Manning, Ken Norman and Reggie Williams are still floating around this place). Last year, as Pauley Pavilion was being renovated, the Sports Arena was home to the UCLA Bruins. Now this building is hosting two boxing cards within a month of each other, as Amir Khan faces Carlos Molina there on December 15th.
Regardless, this card, also featuring highly regarded WBA light flyweight titlist Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, has finally found a home.
“It’s been a torturous road; I’m glad we’re here and june1 figures to be a great fight among the two best little guys in the world, the two best flyweights in the world. I see this as [Humberto] ‘Chiquita’ Gonzalez-Michael Carbajal,” said the adviser for Viloria, Gary Gittelsohn, who worked tirelessly to see this fight come to fruition.
The Sports Arena is no stranger to boxing, having hosted many fights throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s and was the host for the 1984 Olympic boxing competition. But the last major championship fight to take place here was back in October of 1996 when Jose Luis Lopez faced Yori Boy Campas for the WBO welterweight title. The bottom line is that this building is in Hermosillo, Mexico – where this fight belonged – and it was available. Juan Carlos Torres of Zanfer Promotions told Maxboxing, “We were discussing with a friend that lives here in L.A. about the fight and the possibility of different venues and he suggested this because he said he was in the middle of the Latinos, the Salvadorians, the Central Americans. So with ‘Chocolatito,’ ‘Tyson’ Marquez – these fighters are very well known in L.A. and in their country. We think it’s the easiest way for them to go to the show.”
On this same night, HBO will be televising a card from Atlantic City featuring WBC lightweight beltholder Antonio DeMarco against Adrien Broner. When asked if that telecast would overshadow this card, Torres remarked, “Even though Broner is fighting DeMarco, this type of fight is totally different in terms of fan-base, so I don’t see that as a problem. We had ‘Chocolatito’ in Pomona [in April against Ramon Garcia Hirales] on the same date as HBO [which broadcast Chad Dawson vs. Bernard Hopkins II]; it didn’t make any difference. It surpassed our expectations. So not only the fighters but the combination of the main event, I think [the fans] going to come and see it.”
While tickets have not officially gone on sale yet, the plan is to scale the arena for around 6,000 (which means they’ll be breaking out the big black curtains, a mainstay for USC basketball games) and price the tickets between $25 and $150. In terms of television, it will be carried on WealthTV in the States, with Azteca handling the broadcast in Mexico. In the Philippines, it will be a pay-per-view.
But the question is, why is a quality prizefight like this not on either HBO or Showtime?
Gittelsohn, who, for years dealt with both networks, stated, “It’s terribly disappointing and the business has changed and I think there are political issues and promotional alliances that affect a great fight like this getting air time. This was my biggest disappointment in boxing. If there was ever a fight that belonged on one of the premium cable networks, this was it. I did everything I could short of camping out at HBO and Showtime and although I received polite responses, the responses were the same: they simply did not have the room.”
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