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05/13/2005 Archived Entry: "Santa Cruz Defends NABF Title vs. Contrerras, Perez Fights Sanders June 10th!"
Santa Cruz Defends NABF Title vs. Contrerras, Perez Fights Sanders June 10th!
Kelly Pavlik, Dave Pareja, Jimmy and George Gonzales, Mike Nevitt also Featured on Massive Undercard!
Bomber Luciano Perez (left) and rugged Robert Jones thrilled all in their draw last March, a match stylistically similar to Perez' upcoming bout vs. Germaine Sanders
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Dominic Pesoli's 8 Count Productions, home of The Best in Chicago Boxing series and Bob Arum's Top Rank Incorporated along the Miller Beer and La Raza Newspaper present a huge night of professional boxing on Friday, June 10th as Telefutura's weekly internationally broadcast Solo Boxeo de Miller series returns to Chicago's Aragon Ballroom.
Headlining the terrific evening is a twelve round lightweight NABF title fight between Mexican Jose Armando Santa Cruz, 19-0 (10KO's) and Eleazar Contreras, Jr. 25-4-2 (9KO's) of Bakersfield, California.
Santa Cruz was last seen in Chicago on April 22nd at the Cicero Stadium as he dismantled former world title challenger Justin Juuko on his way to a third round TKO. Contreras sports a five bout winning streak including wins over highly ranked Ernesto Zepeda and Gregorio Vargas within the last 18 months.
The co-main event is rescheduled from earlier this year as Chicago welterweights Germaine "Silky" Sanders, 23-3 (17KO's) and Luciano "El Gallo Michoacano" Perez, 12-1-1 (11KO's) square off in a ten round bout. Sanders, Chicago's slickest fighter, will attempt to stick and move quickly to avoid the bombs away punching style of the heavy handed, hard swinging Perez.
The undercard is headed by world ranked middleweight Kelly Pavlik, 24-0, (21KO's) of Youngstown, Ohio. Pavlik is currently ranked # 11 by the WBC, # 6 by the WBA, # 11 by the IBF and # 8 by the WBO. His most recent win was a Showtime televised second round TKO destruction over highly rated Dorian Beaupierre on March 4th of this year.
Returning to the 8 Count Productions ring is FOX-TV's Next Great Champ finalist, Dave "Danger" Pareja, 4-1 (1KO) as he will appear in a six round light heavyweight bout. Pareja last bout was a second round crushing knockout of Ryan Franklin at the Aragon Ballroom on April 8th.
Also on the card are former Chicago Golden Gloves champions, The Brothers Gonzalez. Super middleweight Jimmy Gonzalez, 1-0 (1KO) will appear in a four round bout and middleweight Jorge Gonzalez, 2-0, will fight in a scheduled six rounder.
Local cruiserweight Mike Nevitt, 8-0 (4KO's) returns to the 8 Count Productions' ring in a six round bout as well as Chicago's hottest female prospect Rita Figueroa, 3-0 who will also appear in a scheduled six rounder.
Tickets are available now by calling the home of The Best in Chicago Boxing series, 8 Count Productions offices at 312-226-5800. Additional information on this fantastic evening will be announced shortly and updated on the new 8 Count Productions website, www.8countproductions.com.
Doors will open at 6 PM with the first bell scheduled for 7 PM.
The Aragon Ballroom is located at 1106 W. Lawrence Avenue and 4800 North (near the corner of Lawrence Ave. and Broadway), 5 miles north of Downtown Chicago and 4 blocks west of Lake Shore Drive. For further directions, please visit their website listed below.
Listen to KO Chicago Radio every Wednesday at it's new time, 5:30pm on WJJG, 1530-AM brought to you by 8 Count Productions.
Photo by Juan C. Ayllon
