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VERSUS
TO TELEVISE COTTO-MALIGNAGGI BOUT
Stamford, Conn. (Nov. 30, 2006) – VERSUS Fight Night this Thursday (9
p.m. ET) will feature Miguel Cotto’s electrifying 12-round unanimous
victory over Paulie Malignaggi at Madison Square Garden this past June.
This Saturday, he challenges Carlos Quintana for the vacant WBA
welterweight title in Atlantic City.
The Cotto-Malignaggi main event held on June 10 headlined an exciting
pay-per-view card promoted by Top Rank Boxing at Madison Square Garden.
The victory was Cotto’s sixth successful defense of his WBO crown. In
addition to the Cotto-Malignaggi bout, VERSUS Fight Night will also show
Bobby Pacquiao’s knockout of Kevin Kelley and the 2nd round TKO by Julio
Cesar Chavez Jr. over Aaron Drake in their super welterweight clash that
were also part of the pay-per-view show.
Fight Night is hosted by Wally Matthews, a veteran boxing writer who has
covered the sport for two decades, and Bob Papa, who has called boxing
for ESPN and currently for NBC. Michael Buffer, the tuxedoed announcer
who coined the catchphrase “Let’s get ready to rumble!” serves as the
ring announcer.
VERSUS (VERSUS.com) celebrates real competition in all its forms. The
network is the national cable home of the National Hockey League (NHL)
and the Stanley Cup Playoffs as well as best-in-class events like The
Tour de France, the America's Cup, the Dakar Rally, the Professional
Bull Riders (PBR), Professional Boxing, the Boston Marathon, AMA
Motocross and Davis Cup. Now in more than 70 million homes, the network
features the best field sports programming on television and is a
destination for sports fans, athletes and sportsmen to find exclusive,
competitive events that audiences can't find elsewhere. The network
offers unique, competition-themed original programming and is the
exclusive home of Survivor in syndication. VERSUS, a wholly owned
company of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK), is distributed
via cable systems and satellite operators throughout the United States.
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