East Side Boxing
May 23 2005
William Abelyan returns May 27
23.05.05 – Former world championship contender William Abelyan of
Henderson, Nev., faces veteran Roberto Lopez of San Diego in the
10-round super bantamweight main event on the nationally and
internationally televised `Guilty Fight Night’ card promoted by
Guilty Boxing Friday, May 27, at the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino in Las
Vegas, Nev..
Abelyan, originally from Armenia, has a record of 24-5-1 with 13
knockouts. He was the North American Boxing Organization
featherweight champion during 2002 and 2003 and challenged World
Boxing Organization 126-pound champion Scott Harrison June 19, 2004,
in Renfrew, Scotland, losing in the third round.
The most recent bout for the 26-year-old Abelyan was a fourth-round
knockout of highly regarded Martin Honorio on a Guilty Boxing card
Nov. 5 in Las Vegas. Abelyan, a southpaw, now has won 14 of his past
15 fights dating back to 2000.
Lopez, 32, has a record of 22-15-1 with nine knockouts and has fought
seven former world champions: Fernando Montiel, WBO flyweight;
Veeraphol Sahaprom, World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council
bantamweight; Mauricio Pastrana, International Boxing Federation
bantamweight and junior flyweight; Johnny Bredahl, WBA bantamweight;
Danny Romero, IBF junior bantamweight and flyweight; Paulie Ayala,
WBA bantamweight; and Willie Jorrin, WBC super bantamweight.
Guilty Boxing’s `Guilty Fight Night’ telecasts are seen domestically
on America One, Comcast Sports Chicago, DirecTV, Dish Network and The
Urban Network; in Europe, Africa and middle eastern countries on Fox
Sports International; in Europe and Africa on BEN Television; and in
the Caribbean on WCVI Super Station.
Guilty Boxing’s weekly cards are seen in 112 million households
worldwide, making Guilty Productions one of the fastest-growing
providers of boxing television programming in the world.
This is another in the ongoing series of `Guilty Fight Night’ cards.
The innovative Guilty Boxing series was launched last May and has
presented cards in Arizona, California, Connecticut and Mexico as
well as Las Vegas.
Eight six-round fights are on the nine-bout Guilty Boxing card:
cruiserweight Olawale Afolabi (8-1-3, 3 KOs) of Los Angeles against
an opponent to be determined; cruiserweight Joseph Gusman (6-0, 3
KOs) of Olympia, Wash., against Frank Walker (10-1-1, 5 KOs) of
Philadelphia; light heavyweight Dimitrique Edwards (7-2-1, 4 KOs) of
Glendora, Calif., against Makhmud Otazhanov (4-1, 3 KOs) of Orwell,
Ohio; undefeated super middleweight Lamar Nolan (13-0, 8 KOs) of
Detroit against Leroy Brooks (12-5, 6 KOs) of Las Vegas; middleweight
James Countryman (6-0, 4 KOs) of Detroit against Jonathan Ochoa
(4-0-3, 1 KO) of Los Angeles; welterweight Merhav Mohar (15-1, 10
KOs) of Brooklyn, N.Y., against an opponent to be determined;
welterweight Robert Jones (6-1-1, 2, KOs) of Troy, Mich., against
Darren Fallen
(8-2-1, 5 KOs) of Philadelphia; and super lightweight Jose Alfredo
Barrera (6-0, 0 KOs) of Colton, Calif., against an opponent to be
determined.
The card starts at 7 p.m. (Pacific).
Commentators for Guilty Boxing’s `Guilty Fight Night’ telecasts are
`The Colonel’ Bob Sheridan and Benny Ricardo. Sheridan, a Boxing Hall
of Fame inductee, has worked almost 800 world championship bouts on
six continents during a career that has spanned more than three
decades. Ricardo, for 11 years a place kicker on four NFL teams, also
is a veteran announcer and has covered the biggest events in the
sports world, ranging from Super Bowls to World Cups.