The Contender Challenge: UK vs. USA
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The Contender Challenge: UK vs. USA is a series of boxing matches on March 30, 2007, held at Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, England, featuring 8 boxers from the US reality television shows The Contender and The Contender 2. The Contenders, in a team coached by Sugar Ray Leonard, will take on 8 boxers from the UK, all promoted by Frank Warren, and coached by Barry McGuigan. The winning team will be awarded the "Sugar Ray Leonard Cup," not unlike the Ryder Cup in Golf[1]
The bouts, all at 8 rounds, will be the basis of a TV show broadcast in the US by ESPN, featuring 6 episodes, beginning on April 10th, 2007. The weights for the matches range from welterweight to light heavyweight.
The matchups are scheduled as of March 24, 2007, to be:
- Alfonso Gomez vs. Martin Concepcion
- Freddy Curiel vs. Ross Minter
- Walter Wright vs. Anthony Small
- Jesse Brinkley vs. Robin Reid
- Cornelius Bundrage vs. Colin McNeil
- Jerson Ravelo vs. Paul Buchanan
- Michael Clark vs. Nigel Wright
- Jonathan Reid vs. Paul Smith
