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Showtime To offer Secondary
Audio Program (SAP) In Spanish For Ortiz vs. Berto II
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.
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