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TOMORROW! Crawford & Verdejo NY Press Conf at The Garden - 11:30 A.M. ET
PhilBoxing.com Tue, 12 Jan 2016

STARS WARS!
UNDEFEATED CHAMPIONS TERENCE CRAWFORD AND FELIX VERDEJO TO HOST NEW YORK PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING THEIR HBO? TITLE FIGHTS
Tomorrow! Tuesday, January 12, at 11:30 A.M. ET
Chase Square at Madison Square Garden
NEW YORK (January 11, 2016) -- Undefeated superstar champions TERENCE "Bud" CRAWFORD and FELIX "El Diamante" VERDEJO, and Top-10 contender "Hammerin'" HANK LUNDY will host a New York press conference Tomorrow! Tuesday, January 12, at Chase Square in Madison Square Garden. Media may report at 11:30 a.m., with the press conference beginning at Noon ET. Crawford, Verdejo, Lundy, their teams and Todd duBoef, president of Top Rank will be available for one on one interviews.
Media should enter at Chase Square at 32nd St. and 7th Ave.
Crawford (27-0, 19 KOs), of Omaha, the 2014 Fighter of the Year and a two-division world champion, will be defending his World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior welterweight world title against Top-10 contender Lundy (26-5-1, 13 KOs), of Philadelphia, PA. Verdejo (19-0, 14 KOs), of San Juan, Puerto Rico, will be risking his WBO Latino lightweight title, Top-Five world ranking and his impending world title shot when he takes on William Silva (23-0, 14 KOs), of S?o Paulo, Brasil, in a battle of undefeated contenders.
Promoted by Top Rank?, in association with Tecate, Classic Entertainment & Sports (CES), Diamante Promotions and Madison Square Garden, the Crawford/Verdejo championship doubleheader will take place on Saturday, February 27 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Both fights will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing? beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
For fight updates go to www.toprank.com, or www.hbo.com/boxing, on Facebook at facebook.com/trboxing, facebook.com/trboxeo or facebook.com/hboboxing, and on Twitter at twitter.com/trboxing, twitter.com/trboxeo, or twitter.com/hboboxing. Use the Hashtags #CrawfordLundy or #VerdejoSilva to join the conversation on Twitter.
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