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LOMACHENKO, USYK AND GVOZDYK SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDIA WORKOUTS TODAY PhilBoxing.com Wed, 22 Mar 2017 Wednesday, March 22, at 1 P.M. PT World Boxing Gymnasium in Oxnard The Three Champions to Defend Titles Saturday, April 8, at Sold Out MGM National Harbor Televised Live on HBO World Championship Boxing? OXNARD, CALIF. (March 22, 2017) -- Undefeated champions and 2012 Ukrainian Olympic medalists VASYL LOMACHENKO, ALEKSANDR USYK and OLEKSANDR GVOZDYK will host a Media Workout Today! Wednesday, March 22, at World Boxing Gymnasium (1451 Pacific Ave., Oxnard, Calif. 93003), beginning at 1:00 p.m. PT. All three are in deep training for their title defenses, which will take place Saturday, April 8, at The Theater at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, MD. The event has been sold out for weeks. Promoted by Top Rank?, in association with Peltz Boxing Promotions, K2 Promotions, K2 Promotions Ukraine, Joe DeGuardia's Star Boxing and Kiddar, the three title fights will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing, beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Lomachenko, Usyk and Gvozdyk will be joined at their media workout by two-time Lithuanian Olympian Egidjus Kavaliauskas, who will be on the April 8 non-televised undercard in a six-round welterweight bout, and their manager, Egis Klimas, who was honored last week by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) as its Manager of the Year. Interviews will take place before the workouts. Lomachenko (7-1, 5 KOs), of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine, arguably boxing's top pound for pound fighter, makes his 2017 debut coming off a year that saw him named "Fighter of the Year" by several media outlets. Already a two-division world champion and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, Lomachenko will be defending his World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior lightweight world title against former World Boxing Association (WBA) super featherweight world champion JASON "El Canito" SOSA (20-1-4, 15 KOs), from Newark, NJ. Usyk (11-0, 10 KOs), from Kiev, Ukraine, and a 2012 Olympic gold medalist, will be defending his WBO cruiserweight world title against Top-10 contender MIKE HUNTER (12-0, 8 KOs), from Las Vegas, Nev. Gvozdyk (12-0, 10 KOs), from Kharkiv, Ukraine, a 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, enters this fight having won 10 of his last 12 fights by knockout. He will be defending his NABF light heavyweight title against YUNIESKY GONZALEZ (18-2, 14 KOs), a native of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, who lives and trains in Miami, Fla. The HBO special 2 Days: Vasyl Lomachenko premieres This Saturday, March 25 at 12:10 a.m. (ET/PT) on HBO immediately following the replay of the two titles fights from Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. In addition to Kavaliauskas, the non-televised undercard will feature undefeated No. 1 super middleweight contender JESSE "Hard Work" HART from Philadelphia, PA., and local favorites from the metro Washington, D.C. area, including undefeated prospects MIKE "Yes Indeed" REED and PATRICK HARRIS in separate bouts. 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 Hashtag #LomachenkoSosa to join the conversation on Twitter.  |
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