IT’S A NIGHT OF RISING STARS WHEN
HBO BOXING AFTER DARK®: YURIORKIS GAMBOA VS. MARCOS RAMIREZ,
ALFREDO ANGULO VS. ANDREY TSURKAN AND
SERGIO MARTINEZ VS. ALEX BUNEMA
IS PRESENTED SATURDAY, OCT. 4, ON HBO
HBO’s late-night boxing series presents a tripleheader of rising stars when HBO BOXING AFTER DARK: YURIORKIS GAMBOA VS. MARCOS RAMIREZ, ALFREDO ANGULO VS. ANDREY TSURKAN AND SERGIO MARTINEZ VS ALEX BUNEMA is seen SATURDAY, OCT. 4 (10:05 p.m. live ET/tape-delayed PT) from the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, Cal., exclusively on HBO. The HBO Sports team of blow-by-blow announcer Bob Papa, commentator Max Kellerman and expert analyst Lennox Lewis will cover the action at ringside, which will be available in HDTV, closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired and presented in Spanish on HBO Latino.
Other HBO playdate: Oct. 5 (10:00 a.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Oct. 5 (4:00 p.m.) and 7 (11:25 p.m.)
The main event features undefeated featherweight standouts Yuriokis Gamboa (11-0, 9 KOs), formerly from Cuba and now living in Miami, and Marcos Ramirez (25-0, 16 KOs), from Kansas City, Kans., in a scheduled ten-round contest. Gamboa earned a gold medal for Cuba at the 2004 Olympics and is making his second appearance on the late-night HBO series this year.
The middle bout pits undefeated top prospect Alfredo Angulo (13-0, 10 KOs) from Mexicali, Mexico, against Ukraine’s Andrey Tsurkan (26-3, 17 KOs) in a scheduled ten-round junior middleweight showdown.
The tripleheader kicks off with Sergio Martinez (43-1, 23 KOs) from Buenos Aires, Argentina, taking on Alex Bunema (30-5-2, 16 KOs), a native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in a scheduled 12-round junior middleweight contest.