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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Contact: Lisa
Elovich MARSHALL
– PIERRE, MILLER, WILCOX FEATURED ON OCTOBER 28TH Albany, NY – On October
28th, Pugnacious Promotions will present a professional
boxing card at the Washington Avenue Armory with an Upstate New York
flavor, including an intriguing headline match-up between long-time
contender Tony Marshall (37-12-5, 13 KOs, Albany, NY) and prospect
Lenord “The Haitian Sensation” Pierre (17-1, 12 KOs, Catskill, NY)
and featuring heavyweights Shannon Miller
(11-1, 6 KOs, Troy, NY) and Gary Wilcox (19-3-1, 6 KOs,
Saratoga Springs, NY) in separate bouts. The 10-round Marshall –
Pierre bout will headline a Halloween weekend event featuring fighters
from New York’s Capital Region, the Hudson Valley and beyond.
Albany’s Marshall, who has faced such champions as Ronald
“Winky” Wright, Kassem Ouma and Fernando Vargas, held the NABF Light
Middleweight title and challenged for both the WBC and WBA light
middleweight belts. Originally
from Haiti, Pierre is a talented prospect trained by Kevin Rooney at the
Cus D’Amato Catskill Boxing Club.
In a six-round co-feature,
Miller will face tough ring veteran Harold Rodriguez (6-15, 2 KOs,
Taunton, Mass.) in his return to the ring after participating in the
fight ranked second in ESPN2/”Friday Night Fights’ “Top Five
Fights” of 2005 against power-puncher Vinny Maddalone (23-3, 18 KOs,
Flushing, NY). Wilcox, in
his second fight as a heavyweight after contending at cruiserweight,
will face a veteran of 60 pro fights, Dennis McKinney (27-33-1, 13 KOs.
Columbia, S.C.). In four-round undercard
bouts, Highland, NY junior welterweight Hervey Medina (4-0-1, 1 KO)
will face Marco Mayorga (0-1, Ecuador) and Syracuse, NY natives Damian
Rinaldi – who will face Eduardo Torres (1-3, 1 KO, Puerto Rico) –
and Ron Lewis – who will face Richard Pearson (0-0, Patterson, NJ) –
will make their pro debuts.
Albany native Wayland Willingham (7-0, 4 KOs, Atlanta, Ga.) will
face an opponent to be announced. The Capital District
Military Family Support Group, a grass-roots organization that educates
and supports local military families and the community about the needs
of families facing deployment and re-integration, will join Pugnacious
Promotions and help acknowledge the contribution of the 101st Calvary,
who just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq three weeks ago. The support group will receive 100% of the proceeds of three
raffles held at the boxing event: 1)
a one-year membership at event sponsor Gold’s Gym, 2) six months of
lessons at the Delmar School of Aikido and 3) a complimentary dinner
with heavyweight Shannon Miller at the Arlington House in West Sand
Lake, NY. Tickets
are on sale at the Armory box office, (518) 694-7160, or through
Ticketmaster by phone (518-476-1000), at any outlet or online at www.ticketmaster.com.
General Admission tickets are $20; Reserved, $30; Ringside, $75
and first two rows, $100. Corporate
tables are also available for groups of 10, with additional services. Sponsors of the event include Budweiser, Ruch Distributors, The Swyer Companies, Tioga Downs, Gold’s Gym, Capital District OTB and Nat Sherman Cigars. 30-
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