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VERSUS
to Interview Tommy Morrison Following His Ring Return
STAMFORD, Conn. (February 21, 2007) – VERSUS will have a pre-taped
interview with Tommy Morrison as well as a live interview during the
telecast tomorrow night as part of its VERSUS Fight Night in
collaboration with Top Rank Boxing at 9 p.m. ET from the Mountaineer
Race Track & Gaming Resort in Chester, West Virginia.
The telecast will be headlined by the 12-round main event showdown
between super featherweights Humberto Soto (40-5-2 with 24 KOs) and
Humberto Toledo (26-2-2 with 15 KOs).
Morrison (46-3-1), who has not fought since 1996 after a positive HIV
test prior to fight in Las Vegas, was officially cleared Tuesday by the
West Virginia Boxing Commission to fight. Morrison has passed a number
of medical tests and insists he was misdiagnosed as HIV positive. He
will meet John Castle in a four-round bout on the undercard, which will
not be televised by VERSUS.
VERSUS will also show Morrison’s 1993 victory over George Foreman on its
Legends of the Ring series from 6-8 p.m.
Soto of Los Mochis, Mexico, rated WBC #2, is unbeaten in his last 18
bouts (17-0-1) which includes a victory over Rocky Juarez in the
featherweight division. Following that win, Soto moved into the super
featherweight division and won a WBC Eliminator over Ivan Valle on
August 12 in Las Vegas. Toledo is WBC #7-rated super featherweight, is
unbeaten in his last 24 bouts including a TKO 6 over Davinson Guerra to
win the WBC Latin America Championship on August 11 in Maracaibo,
Venezuela.
In the opening VERSUS televised bout, heavyweight Joe Mesi of Buffalo,
N.Y. will take on George Linberger of Cleveland in a 10-round event.
Baby Joe Mesi (33-0, 26 KOs) has returned strong to the ring following a
two-year sabbatical for medical reasons. The undefeated Buffalo
heavyweight looks to rise through the division by taking on veteran
George Linberger (29-8-1, 25 KOs) in the 10-round co-feature.
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 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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