ATLANTA, July 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Premier Boxing
Champions (PBC) comes to Bounce TV on Sunday, August 2 at 9:00
p.m. (ET), with the debut of the new monthly series, PBC
- The Next Round, which will showcase the sport's future stars
and potential champions.
The main event for the series premiere of PBC - The Next
Round will be a 12-round World Bantamweight Championship fight
between Juan Carlos "Baby Pacquiao" Payano (16-0, 8 KOs) and
Rau'shee "Nuke" Warren (13-0, 4 KOs). Both fighters are
Olympians - Payano for the Dominican
Republic and Cincinnati southpaw
Warren, a three-time Olympian for the
United States. Each fighter brings an undefeated record to
the battle for the title.
The co-feature is a two-fight, WBC Tournament in the Junior
Middleweight division: A 10-round match of Olympic Silver Medalist
Yudel Johnson (17-1, 9 KOs) taking
on the knockout machine Jorge Cota
(24-1, 22 KOs), plus 10 rounds of Olympian John Jackson (19-2, 15
KOs) battling Dennis Laurente (49-5,
30 KOs). The winners of the two bouts will face-off on a date
to be announced soon.
PBC - The Next Round, promoted by Warriors Boxing, will
take place at Full Sail Live, the state-of-the-art performance
venue on the campus of Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.
Bounce TV is free on the digital broadcast signals of local
television stations and corresponding cable carriage. For
local channel location, visit BounceTV.com.
Ambassador Young and Martin Luther King
III are among the founders of Bounce TV, the fastest-growing
African-American (AA) network on television and the #2 most-watched
AA network. Bounce TV features a programming mix of original
and off-network series, theatrical motion pictures, specials, live
sports and more. Bounce TV has grown to be available in more
than 85 million homes across 90 markets, 90% of African American
television homes -- including all of the top AA television markets
-- and three quarters of the total television homes in the United States.
Contact:
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Jim Weiss, Bounce TV:
(770) 722-2142
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Michael Donahue,
Premier Boxing Champions: (630) 441-8080
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Swanson
Communications: (202) 783-5500
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