Baldomir -Gatti Tickets to go on sale on Saturday, April 1 at 11 am ET

Atlantic City, NJ (March 30, 2006) – Tickets for the highly-anticipated Carlos Baldomir-Arturo Gatti WBC World Welterweight Championship will go on sale to the public on Saturday, April 1 at 11:00 am ET

If I asked you, “Do you know who Manny Pacquiao is?” would you be able to answer? What about Miguel Cotta, or Antonio Tarver? No, they’re not soccer players, basketball players or baseball players. In reality, these men are elite professional boxers, considered “Pound-for-Pound” the greatest in the world. Why is it, that while people seem to know so much about the worlds of professional basketball, baseball, and soccer, they tend to know very little or nothing at all when it comes to boxing?

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Light Welterweight Champ Ricky Hatton`s road to American has been bumpy, but we finally have an opponent and place for his first fight on American Soil. Hatton (40-0, 30KO`s) will be moving up to the Welterweight division to fight WBA Welterweight champ Luis Collazo (26-1, 12KO`s).

Frank Warren will be flying out to the states this week in hopes of setting up a summer fight for his latest world champion, Joe Calzaghe. Calzaghe, who recently destroyed Jeff Lacy for 12 rounds, will be looking to fight a big name to cash in on his win. Rumors are swirling that Roy Jones Jr. is willing to fly to England for this fight.

Kevin Payne (14-5-1) won a split decision over Ryan Maraldo Saturday night in Evansville, Indiana. The fight was shown nationwide on the Spanish language channel Azteca America.

After the fight Payne had to be helped out of the ring and was taken to the hospital on a stretcher. In a sudden turn of events, Payne had to undergo emergency brain surgery due to the blows he sustained to the head during the fight. Payne never pulled through.

In what was meant to be the first in a series of fights to bring clarity to the heavyweight division, WBC Champion Hasim Rahman (41-5-2-33 KO`s) kept his title when the judges declared the fight a draw. One judge had the fight 117-111 and the two others had it equal at 114-114. James Toney (69-4-3-43 KO`s) came in looking out-of-shape and out of breath after the second round.

Although Toney was off-balanced and unable to put his combinations together, Rahman failed to put anything meaningful together to put Toney away. Rahman was very composed through the entire fight firing his jab at a rate that would make any heavyweight happy.

Looking to Cash in on his surprising win over Zab Judah, WBC Welterwieght champion Carlos Baldomir will take on fan favorite Arturo Gatti on July 22 in Atlantic City.

Still no opponent for Ricky Hatton`s May 13th American debut bout in Connecticut. Rumored opponents include Vivian Harris and Lovemore N`dou. Welterweight Champ Carlos Baldomar, who was considered Hatton`s first choice, has been taken off the list of opponenet when he signed to fight Arturo Gatti later this year.

In what would likely be a mega-fight if it ever comes to fruition, touchgloves.com learned this morning that Joe Calzaghe (41-0-31 KO`s) who`s coming off of his annihilation of champion Jeff Lacy last week is preparing to face former pound-for-pound king Roy Jones Jr. (49-4-38 KOs) this July in America.

On Saturday March 18th, HBO Championship Boxing will present its first heavyweight bout of the year. James "Lights Out" Toney (69-4-2, 43 KOs)goes up against WBC heavyweight Champion Hasim Rahman (41-5-1, 33 KOs).

You can add another former Champions name’s to the list of people who probably won’t be visiting England anytime soon; Jeff Lacy.

The European invasion of American boxing seems to be in full effect. Both Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe were able to lure title fights to their native country and make the best of their opportunities. Hatton was able to punish Kosta Tszyu for 10 rounds, before the light welterweight champ was unable to answer the bell for the 11^th round. And last week, Calzaghe beat Lacy in what was a one sided beating, sending Lacy to his first professional loss. Chris Byrd hopes to break the spell when he goes to Russia to fight Vladimir Klitschko next month.

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