Duddy to face Bonsante-Vanda winner?

08/01/2007

Duddy to face Bonsante-Vanda winner?

Press Release: More than bragging rights and regional title belts will be on the line Friday night (January 12, 2007) when Minnesota middleweight champion Anthony “The Bullet” Bonsante fights Minnesota archrival Matt “The Predator” Vanda, headlining “Bad Blood” in the ten-round main event at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The winner will move to the head of the line to challenge John Duddy (18-0, 15 KOs) on March 16, 2007 in the marquee fight live on pay-per-view from The Theatre in New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden. Duddy’s promoter, Irish Ropes president Eddie McLoughlin, and head trainer Harry Keitt will be at ringside scouting Bonstante-Vanda. The show cannot break the state record for attendance at a boxing show – 13,789 for Scott LeDoux (chairman of the new Minnesota Boxing Commission) vs. Duane Bobick, June 26, 1976 at the Metropolitan Sports Arena in Bloomington – because the Target Center has been scaled down to approximately 10,000 seats. One opponent switch on the undercard: Raphael Butler (23-3, 19 KOs), 2004 National Golden Gloves champion will now take on former Louis Monaco (15-34-4, 7 KOs), in a six-round bout.