PRESS RELEASE: Promoters Art Pelullo/Banner Promotions, Brian Young/Prize Fight Boxing, and Bill Kozerski/Fight Night Inc., will present a sensational championship fight card on Friday, February 3, 2006, at the International Banquet & Convention Center, located at 400 Monroe Street in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The featured fights will be televised live on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights at 9:00 P.M. Eastern time.
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ESPN2’S FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS will be part of a private party for invited V.I.P. guests on the Friday preceding Super Bowl Sunday in Detroit. Tickets are not available to the public.
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In the main event scheduled for 12 rounds, Antonio Davis, 19-1, with 9 knockouts, of Atlanta, Georgia, will defend the NABO jr. lightweight title against Koba Gogoladze, 17-1, with 7 knockouts, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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33 year-old Davis has won 15 fights in a row dating back to his only loss in February, 2003. He won the vacant NABO 130-pound title in January, 2005, and is making his first title defense. Antonio is currently ranked No. 4 by the WBO.
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Gogoladze, 32 years old, is a native of the Republic of Georgia and a former amateur star - he represented his home country in the 1996 Olympics, and was a three-time Soviet Union amateur champion.
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In the co-featured bout scheduled for 10 rounds, Mary Jo Sanders, 19-0, 5 KOs, of Detroit, Michigan, will make her first defense of the WBC female welterweight world title against a Iva Weston, 10-3, 1 KO, of San Fernando, Trinidad. Mary Joe is the daughter of former Detroit Lions great Charlie Sanders, and currently the biggest attraction on the Detroit boxing scene.
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Super middleweight prospect James McGirt Jr., 10-0, 6 KOs, of Vero Beach, Florida, will be featured in a special eight round attraction against an opponent to be announced.
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Three more bouts are scheduled to complete the card. All bouts are subject to change without notice.