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Published on February 26, 2010
DETROIT TO HOST ABRAHAM-DIRRELL FIGHT
- Detroit will host its biggest boxing card in nearly a decade when German sensation Arthur Abraham fights Flint’s Andre Dirrell as part of Showtime’s super middleweight tournament March 27. The fight will be at either Cobo Arena or Joe Louis Arena, co-promoter Carlos Llinas said. A formal announcement is expected Friday on what will be the most important fight in Detroit since Mike Tyson-Andrew Golota in 2000. Abraham (31-0, 25 KOs) is a former International Boxing Federation middleweight champion who moved up eight pounds to participate in Showtime’s tournament, which is a long-term endeavor to unify most of the 168-pound title. Dirrell (18-1, 13 KOs) was a 2004 Olympic bronze medalist. “I’m very thankful to be a part of it,” Llinas said. “Hopefully, it will be a boost to Michigan’s economy because Abraham has a great following and those people will be flying to Detroit, renting cars, eating, and going to the fight. Events like these are exactly what Detroit needs to boost the economy.” The Super Six tournament originally included Abraham, Dirrell, Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler, Andre Ward and Jermain Taylor. On the first night of the tournament, last Oct. 17, Abraham’s 12th-round knockout of Taylor, in Berlin, also knocked the former middleweight champion out of the tournament and into career limbo. Allan Green since has been named to replace Taylor in the tournament. That same night, as part of the same televised program, Dirrell lost a disputed decision in Froch’s hometown of Nottingham, England. The tournament suffered another mishap when Abraham-Dirrell, originally scheduled for March 6 in California, was postponed last week because of a back injury Dirrell suffered in training. The tournament format calls for each of the six fighters to compete in three bouts to begin the tournament, with three points awarded for a knockout win, two for a decision win, one for a draw and zero for a loss, The Grand Rapids Press reported.
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Today in Armenian history- 1798 Tsar Paul the First's decree on the Armenians.
- 1802 Birth of Gabriel Patkanyan (historian, public figure) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1889 in St.Petersburg (Russia).
- 1828 Start of the repatriation of Armenians living in Iran to Eastern Armenia and the Transcaucasus.
- 1921 Atarbekian, the notorious Secret Police Chief who murdered countless Armenians during Stalin's purges, heads the anti-patriotic offensive in the Dilijan and Karakilisa (Vanadzor) regions.
- 1924 The Central Executive Committee of the USSR renames Alexandropol to Leninakan.
- 1988 Genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait (third largest city in Azerbaijan and its second largest industrial center). The perpetrators were not apprehended. No prosecutions of the guilty were initiated. Mikhail Gorbachev dismisses this Genocide just as an act of petty hooliganism.
- 1992 Artsakh forces control Khojalu, the regional military headquarters of the Azeri Turk forces.
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