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Fights Will Be Breaking Out
The First Week In January On Showtime Like a crowd-pleasing boxer that never takes a backward step, SHOWTIME will come out swinging in 2008 with back to back fight cards the first week of January.
On Saturday, Jan. 5, flashy, charismatic
Paulie "Magic Man'' Malignaggi
(23-1, 5 KOs), of Brooklyn, N.Y., will make
the initial defense of his IBF junior
welterweight championship against mandatory
challenger and IBF No. 1 contender,
Herman "The Black Panther'' Ngoudjo
(16-1, 9 KOs), of Montreal, by way of
Cameroon, on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING (9
p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast).
The night before, Friday, Jan. 4, the
talented, undefeated, world-ranked Peterson
brothers, Anthony
(25-0, 18 KOs) and Lamont
(23-0, 11 KOs), of Washington, D.C., face
dangerous assignments in the 10-round
co-featured bouts on the 2008 premiere of
ShoBox: The New Generation (11 p.m.
ET/PT, delayed on the west coast).
Anthony, a lightweight who is ranked No. 1
in WBO, No. 6 in WBC and No. 13 in IBF,
faces Mexican champion Guadalupe
Rosales (25-2, 15 KOs) of San Luis
Potosi, Mex.
Lamont, who is ranked No. 6 in the WBC and
WBO at 140 pounds, will be opposed by fellow
unbeaten Antonio Mesquita
(34-0, 26 KOs), a Brazilian now residing in
Las Vegas.
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