Most Welcome To watch 28th June 2013 at Dubai.The WBC Minimumweight Championship will be on the line this Friday night in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as the champion Xiong Zhao Zhong defends his title against No. 1-ranked contender Denver Cuello.
Cuello and Zhong will face off on June 28 at the Dubai Boxing Showdown at the World Trade Centre in Dubai, Gulf News reported.
“I’ve waited for the past three years for this moment. I’ve always wanted to fight a top contender and now finally Dubai has made my dream come true,” Cuello said in Dubai, Thursday,He added he had been training for the past eight weeks now. "I feel I can beat him,” he said.
Cuello, 27, is the WBC 2012 silver belt champion. He is sometimes referred to as the next Manny Pacquiao due to his strength and resemblance to the Filipino icon.
He has a record of 33 wins with 21 knockouts, four losses and six draws.For his part, Zhong, 30, said he also felt good about his chances of defending his crown."June 28 is going to be the most important date for boxing in China as I intend to retain my WBC crown,” he said.
Zhong had scored a unanimous decision over Mexico’s Javier Martinez Resendiz in Kunming last November. He has a record of 20 20 wins, including 11 knockouts, four losses and one draw.
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Dubai will host its first ever world championship boxing event later this month when China’s Xiong Zhao Zhong defends his WBC Straw-weight title against the Philippines’ Denver Cuello.
The June 28 event, hosted by KO Promotions and Q&U Group, will take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre and will be televised to an audience of millions around the world.The ‘Dubai Boxing Showdown’ – as it’s been named – will be headlined by the Straw-weight world title bout that will see 2012 WBC Silver title champion Cuello attempt to claim the WBC strap from Zhong.
Zhong (20-4-1) became China’s first ever world boxing champion when he defeated Mexico’s Javier Martinez in a one-sided points decision in November to claim the vacant WBC belt. Since his elevation to world champion, the 30-year-old has become a national icon in China.
He will have to be at his best when he takes on Filipino Cuello, who has been described as the next Manny Pacquiao by fight-fans in his homeland.
Cuello (33-4-6) earned the right to fight for the WBC title after destroying Mexican Ganigan Lopez with a second-round knockout in May last year.
The fight will be televised live in the UAE, the US, China and the Philippines, and in China alone, a television audience of over 200 million is expected, setting a recor for the most people watching a live boxing event in China.
