Latin Fury 13 & Pinoy Power 3 Boxing Match

"Latin Fury 13 / Pinoy Power 3" is an upcoming special boxing edition in celebration of the history of professional boxing and Las Vegas casinos marriage. The first professional boxing card ever held at Las Vegas casino is about forty years ago on December 6, 1969 was presented by the Las Vegas Hilton (known today as The International), the event by former world champion Sonny Liston and featuring 20-year-old George Foreman. Nine years after, Top Rank promoted the first world championship fight to ever take place in a Las Vegas casino venue, also at the Las Vegas Hilton, where Leon Spinks upset heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali on February 15, 1978.


Nearly thirty-two years later to the present, Top Rank and the Las Vegas Hilton are going back to the future with a world championship doubleheader, on Saturday, February 13, featuring former world champions and current top contenders Eric “Little Hands Of Stone” Morel and Gerry “Fearless” Peñalosa, battling in a WBO bantamweight title elimination bout; two-division world champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire defending his WBA interim super flyweight title against knockout artist Gerson “El Nene” Guerrero; WBO bantamweight champion Fernando “Cochulito” Montiel defending his crown against wunderkind Ciso “Kid Terrible” Morales; and world title challengers Mario Santiago and Bernabe Concepcion battling in a 10-round featherweight rumble.

Latin Fury 13 / Pinoy Power 3,” produced and distributed Live on Pay-Per-View by Top Rank, in association with PR Best Boxing, ABS-CBN and the Las Vegas Hilton, will take place Saturday, February 13, 2010 (Saturday, February 14 in Philippines), at the Las Vegas Hilton. The four-bout pay-per-view broadcast will begin at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT.

Tickets, priced at $250, $150, $100 and $50, go on sale this Saturday (12/26) at 10 a.m. PT. They can be purchased at the Las Vegas Hilton box office, online at www.LVHilton.com, by calling (800) 222-5361 or (702) 732-5755, and at all Ticketmaster outlets.

Get ready for massive exchanges of boxing punches between fighters on Latin Fury 13 / Pinoy Power 3.

Source: Fightnews