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Bucharest, Romania – Gankor Promotions, Inc. will present a night of World Championship Boxing at the 7,000 seat Sala Polivalents Arena in Bucharest, Romania on Saturday April 19th. The main event is the WBC Interim Light Heavyweight Championship between # 1 contender Adrian "The Shark" and # 3 contender Chris "Hard Hitting" Henry. Diaconu, 24-0, 15 KO's, is a native of Ploiesti, Romania and is now fighting out of Montreal, Canada. He is the mandatory challenger to current WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Chad Dawson. He was scheduled to fight Dawson last September 29th but a training injury forced him to pull out just 10 days prior to the event. Diaconu earned the WBC No. 1 ranking and became the mandatory challenger to Dawson with a sensational third – round TKO over respected Rico Hoye in an elimination bout staged in Montreal on May 9th seen on ESPN. Chris "Hard Hittin" Henry, 21-0, 17 KO's, has been on a fast-track to the championship himself. He has proven himself with many exciting knockouts as he has stepped up the ladder of better quality competition. Henry has claimed national stature as an amateur as he won the Under 19 Championship in 1998 and was a National Golden Gloves Finalist in 2005, losing only to Chazz Witherspoon. He was an all- around athlete and starred in football while in high school in Beaumont, TX before finally settling on boxing, when he immediately became highly recruited by major promoters. NOTES • Chris Henry is leaving the Savannah training camp in Houston and traveling to Bucharest on Thursday April 10th and arriving April 11th. • For more immediate information please visit the following links. A more thorough media kit on the event will be sent very soon. • For more information, arrange interviews and credentials contact • Short clip of Diaconu sparring • A few features on the fight and the fighters by Rock Solid Promotions
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Don King Productions has promoted over 500 world championship fights with nearly 100 individual boxers having been paid $1 million or more. DKP also holds the distinction of having promoted or co-promoted seven of the 10 largest pay-per-view events in history, as gauged by total buys, including three of the top five: Holyfield vs. Tyson II, 1.99 million buys, June 1997; Tyson vs. Holyfield I, 1.6 million buys, November 1996; and Tyson vs. McNeeley, 1.58 million buys, August 1995. DKP has promoted or co-promoted 11 of the top 15 highest-grossing live gates in the history of the state of Nevada including four of the top five: Holyfield vs. Lewis II, paid attendance: 17,078, gross: $16,860,300 (NOTE: Also second-highest live-gate gross for any event in history.), date: Nov. 13, 1999; Holyfield vs. Tyson II, paid attendance: 16,279, gross: $14,277,200, date: June 28, 1997; Holyfield vs. Tyson I, paid attendance: 16,103, gross: $14,150,700, date: Nov. 9, 1996; and Tyson vs. McNeeley, paid attendance: 16,113, gross: $13,965,600, date: Aug. 19, 1995. Dino Duva, the president of Duva Boxing, has promoted great fighters and great fights during four decades in boxing. Growing up in a renowned boxing family, the Duva name has become synonymous with excellence in the fight game as the “First Family in Boxing.†Working closely with his Hall of Fame father, Lou, and his late, great brother Dan, Duva has been involved in the promotion of over 100 world championship fights including such titlists as Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Pernell Whitaker, Arturo Gatti, and Mark Breland. Duva is presently the promoter of Samuel Peter, regarded by many as the top young heavyweight contender in boxing. |
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