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(Main Events Press Release)

Yesterday, Jon Miller, President of Programming for NBC Sports and VERSUS (which will become NBC Sports Network on January 2); Kathy Duva, CEO Main Events and series promoter for the NBC Sport Network Fight Night series; and Russell Peltz, Peltz Boxing Promotions and Fight Night series matchmaker, spoke with a group of media about the NBC Sports Network and the NBCSN Fight Night series.

The opening show is slated for January 21, 2012 at Asylum Arena in Philadelphia. The main event will feature Philadelphia heavyweight contender “Fast” Eddie Chambers as he takes on former World Heavyweight Champion Sergei “White Wolf” Liakhovich. The co-feature is also a match that will resonate with Philly fans as “King” Gabriel Rosado of Philadelphia meets up with Jesus Soto-Karass of Tijuana, Mexico.

Here’s some of the discussion:

Jon Miller: “We are excited to be getting our team involved with boxing again. We had a long, rich, storied history with NBC Sports. We would do as many as 20-30 fights per year on NBC. We think that there’s an opportunity here with the right matchmaking (Peltz) and the right positioning to possibly introduce boxing back to ‘free, over the air, and in this case cable’ television. Our feeling was that boxing had been under-exposed on linear television and we thought it was a good time to jump back into the ring.”

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