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MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout on truTV Continues Friday, June 26 at 10 p.m. ET PhilBoxing.com Wed, 24 Jun 2015 Card Highlighted by International Super Middleweight Title Bout Between Undefeated Champion Gilberto Ramirez & Derek Edwards truTV and Top Rank will exclusively present the MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout on truTV, a live primetime boxing series on Friday, June 26, at 10 p.m. ET from the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas. The new boxing series, produced in association with Turner Sports and HBO Sports, will feature a 10-round bout for the WBO International Super Middleweight title between undefeated southpaw champion Gilberto ?Zurdo? Ramirez (31-0-0, 24 KOs) of Sinaloa, Mexico and Derek ?The Black Lion? Edwards (27-4-1, 14 KOs) of Las Vegas. Additionally, southpaw Diego Magdaleno (27-1-0, 11 KOs) of Las Vegas will meet Puerto Rico?s Jose ?Chelo? Gonzalez (24-1-0, 19 KOs) in a 12-round bout for the vacant WBO International Lightweight championship. Commentators for the event will include Kevin Kugler providing play-by-play with analyst Ray ?Boom Boom? Mancini and reporter Crystina Poncher. Kugler is a veteran announcer who has called college basketball and NFL coverage for Westwood One and college football for the Big Ten Network. Mancini is a 2015 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee and former NABF and WBA lightweight champion. Poncher is a commentator and reporter for Top Rank, as well as a host, reporter and correspondent for NFL Network and NFL.com. Closed captioning in Spanish will be available for the truTV telecast. The network?s presentation will feature the continued use of ?Spidercam? technology, the first of its kind for a live domestic boxing telecast, providing dynamic coverage during the series. ?Spidercam? operates on a four-point system of cables from designated points beyond the corners of the boxing ring. The suspended camera has the ability to provide compelling 360-degree angles of the action including the ability to move in three dimensions ? left/right, forward/backward and up/down. Follow Turner Sports on Twitter at @TurnerSportsPR.  |
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