HBO Boxing After Dark is back with two exciting featherweight match-ups live from Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ on Saturday March 26, 2011. The co feature of tonight’s HBO B.A.D card is Miguel “Mikey” Garcia vs. Matt Remillard a battle between two undefeated featherweights. Mikey Garcia is the younger brother of world famous trainer Robert Garcia and is also trained by him. Remillard is a decorated amateur boxer from Hartford, Connecticut and holds an amateur win over Garcia’s stable mate and fellow Oxnard fighter Brandon Rios.
The main even of the evening is a featherweight title fight between the explosive Cuban gold medalist and current WBA 126-pound champion Yuriorkis Gamboa and his opponent will be Jorge Solis the brother of former flyweight champion Ulises Solis. Solis is best known for his fight with current pound for pound king, Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, a bout that Solis said he just wasn’t ready for, Pacquiao stopped Solis in the 8th round. Gamboa is an exciting and fast boxer, with knockout power, a win over Solis leads him closer to a mega showdown with fellow champion and undefeated featherweight star Juan Manuel Lopez of Puerto Rico.
Bob Arum the promoter of tonight’s HBO Boxing card and his promotional company Top Rank announced that they would stream the non-televised undercard for Gamboa vs. Solis on the companies official website www.TopRank.com at 6pm ET/ 3 PM PT.
The non-televised undercard will feature NFL football player for the Baltimore Ravens and former Notre Dame standout Tom “Tommy Z” Zbikowski in his 3rd professional boxing bout. HBO will air clips of Tommy Zbikowski’s undercard fight during the HBO broadcast. Also featured is New Jersey rising prospect, Glenn Tapia, who is best known for giving Manny Pacquiao several rounds of hard sparring to prepare Pacquiao for his fight with Antonio Margarito.
To watch the Free live streaming undercard for Gamboa vs. Solis at 6pm ET/ 3pm PT go online at: http://www.toprank.com/TRLiveStream
Watch Gamboa-Solis live on HBO Saturday, March 26 at 9:45 PM ET/PT.
