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Sampson Boxing's Historic 'Las Vegas en el Radisson' Boxing and Poker Show Taking Shape PhilBoxing.com Thu, 09 Jul 2015 The boxing side of promoter Sampson Lewkowicz's innovative and historic pairing of two very popular casino sports boxing and poker, entitled "Las Vegas en el Radisson," and scheduled for the week of Saturday, August 8, at the Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza Hotel in Montevideo, Uruguay, is taking shape. The night's main event will now represent another historic first, as massively popular former women's world champion Cecilia "La Reina" Comunales of Paysandu, Uruguay (12-1, 8 KOs), will engage in the first unification fight in her home country's 100-year boxing history, as she takes on the Dominican Republic's Lina Milagros Tejada (10-2, 8 KOs) for the WBA and WBC Women's Super Lightweight International Championships over 10 rounds. The Saturday boxing event, sandwiched between the semi-finals and finals of a four-day international poker tournament, Broadcast by VTV Uruguay, TyC from Argentina (including locations in the United States) and TV Canal 4 in Panama, in the televised supporting bouts will be an "All Panama City" grudge match, as super bantamweight Rafael "El Torito" Concepcion (18-7-1, 8 KOs) of Panama City, Panama, will challenge comebacking former multiple world champion Roberto "La Arana" Vasquez (32-6-2, 22 KOs), also of Panama City. In the third featured bout, Braulio "El Chavo" Rodriguez (17-1, 16 KOs) of La Romana, Dominican Republic, will take on Entre R?os, Argentina's Marcos "Maquinita" Martinez (17-2, 5 KOs) in a 10-rounder for the WBC Latino Super Featherweight Championship. Local welterweight Azael "Turbo" Cosio (19-3-2, 16 KOs) will open the broadcast in a 10-round battle against Argentina's Cristian Nestor Romero (15-7-1, 7 KOs). The poker side of this unique doubleheader of casino sports will begin on Thursday, August 6, and is being organized by the CAM Poker Organization. On Saturday night, the poker will end at 7 pm and the boxing show will begin at 9 pm. The finals of the poker tournament will be held on Sunday. Satellite enrollees in the poker tournament can register at www.full10poker.net, or www.aconcaguapoker.com. The cost is $800. Players can re-enroll if eliminated. The price to attend the boxing only is $200 per-seat, which also includes dinner.  |
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