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Chris Algieri and Steve Cunningham Take The High Road, Barclays Cards Preview

By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent

 

Brooklyn, NY (April 16th, 2016)– Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions on NBC presents an exciting eight bout card of professional boxing at Barclays Center tonight, Saturday, April 16, 2016. The card will start at 6 P.M., and go live on television at 8:30 P.M.

 

Texas welterweight southpaw Errol Spence Jr. is 19-0 with 16 knockouts. ASt 21-2 with eight knockouts, boxer and martial artist Chris Algieri will run into the hard hitting Spence tomorrow night, and must get pass him to get another shot at a world welterweight title. The going will be rough, as Algieri continues to fight the best opposition and is getting matched upward. Likewise, Krzyszof Glowacki, a 25-0 cruiserweight southpaw WBO World champion who owns a knockout win over durable Marco Huck, will face former IBF World Cruiserweight champion Steve USS Cunningham, who at age 39 last won a cruiserweight title bout over five years ago before moving up to heavyweight. At 28-7 with 13 knockouts, Steve may find the younger more youthful Glowacki too much to handle.

 

Spence is favored to decision Algieri over 12 rounds in this nontitle bout, but who knows? If Algieri has a great night he might outpoint him.

 

Glowacki versus Cunningham is a technical tossup, with the win going to the better technical fighter. David Price came off the canvas to take Cunningham out. A couple of knockdowns could affect the scoring. Steve is always hungry and dangerous, but he has been out of the cruiserweight division for a while. Glowacki is the most dangerous opponent in the cruiserweight division Steve has ever faced. Steve is the only other fighter to have beaten Marco Huck.

 

Al Haymon Light heavyweight southpaw Marcus Browne, 17-0 with 13 knockouts, Staten Island, New York, will fight Radivoje Kalajdzic, 21-0 with 14 knockouts, Saint Petersburg, Florida, for the vacant WBC United States USNBC Light Heavyweight title. Browne is favored by unanimous decision in 10 rounds. Somebody could get knocked out here, given the hard punching nature of these two hard hitters, this could be the fight of the night.

 

Super featherweight Mario Barrios, 14-0 with eight knockouts, San Antonio, Texas, is favored to win by unanimous eight round decision over Filipino trial horse Edgar Gabejan, 27-32-6 with nine knockouts. Gabejan is fighting for the first time in the United States, and is an experienced 12 round caliber fighter, and Barrios will have to work hard to win here.

 

15-0 Brooklyn female super bantamweight Heather Hardy is favored to win by eight round decision over Swedish fighter Anna Donatella Hultin, 8-2 with two knockouts. Hultin has not fought an eight rounder before nor has her opposition been at the level of Hardy. Hultin is a knockout in the looking department, though, a rare Swedish beauty who put the gloves on. Could be an interesting bout if Hultin tries to win. There are no guarantees, even though Hardy sells tickets and brings the Brooklyn crowd in. Hardy will have her work cut out for her if Hultin puts it on the table, and tries to win. A Hardy versus Shelly Vincent bout is in the wings next with Lou DiBella if Hardy wins here.

 

Polish middleweight Lucasz Maciec, 22-3 with five knockouts, is favored to win by eight round majority decision over Jeremy Ramos of Colorado, 9-3 with four knockouts. This could be a very close bout, resolved on the better game plan, and who is the superior technical boxer.

 

Unbeaten but unknown Brooklyn cruiserweight Earl Newman, 8-0 with six knockouts, is favored to win by six round unanimous decision over 13-2 muscular West Virginia fighter Dustin Craig Echard.

 

In the scheduled opening bout, 6-1 South Carolina welterweight TyKeem Sadler of South Carolina faces 1-0 Russian Radzhab Butaev, now fighting out of Brooklyn, New York. Butaev, who has an extensive amateur background, is favored to win the six rounder, which could be close.

 

Ticket prices range from 27 to 650 dollars and can be purchased online at http://centerbrooklyn.com/Tickets-Active.php?eventID=2001552&venueID=9671 based on availability, by telephone at 1-800-745-3000, or at the Barclays American Express ticket window at the facility based on availability. Barclays Center is located at 620 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, is accessible by eleven subway lines, the LIRR, and is 20 minutes from Penn Station and Grand Central Station transportation hubs in New York City. For general Barclays Arena information call 917-618-3100.

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