{"id":11301,"date":"2011-06-08T09:43:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T13:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=11301"},"modified":"2011-06-08T09:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T13:50:06","slug":"vincent-arroyo-off-shobox-fight-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=11301","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Arroyo Off ShoBox Fight Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>UPDATE: Vincent Arroyo sustained an injury during training. His fight versus Hector Sanchez is off. SHOWTIME will move ahead with a doubleheader for this Saturday\u2019s special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation at 10:35 p.m. ET\/PT.<\/p>\n

On a second consecutive night of fights on ShoBox: The New Generation on SHOWTIME\u00ae, two Puerto Rican fighters will climb in the ring against their toughest opponents to date on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City. All the action takes place on a special Saturday edition of ShoBox on June 11 at 10:35 p.m. ET\/PT (delayed on the West Coast).<\/p>\n

In the featured attraction, promising Luis Orlando \u201cOrlandito\u201d Del Valle (12-0,10 KOs), of Bayamon, P.R., and his toughest foe to date, Dat \u201cBe Dat\u2019\u2019 Nguyen (17-1, 6 KOs) of Vietnam, collide in a 10-round featherweight fight at Roseland Ballroom in New York City. The card co-promoted by DiBella Entertainment and Gary Shaw Productions will include a 10-rounder that pits 2008 Puerto Rican Olympian, power-punching Jonathan Gonzalez (13-0, 13 KOs), of Rio Piedras, against Colombian Richard Gutierrez (26-6-1, 16 KOs), of Miami, in a junior middleweight match.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Del Valle has won five in a row by knockout, including a sixth-round TKO over Irving Hernandez in his last outing Feb. 18 in Puerto Rico. \u201cI\u2019m grateful for this opportunity to fight as a star on SHOWTIME. I am preparing to make the best fight of my life,\u2019\u2019 said Del Valle, who knocked out Pasqual Rouse in the fourth round to capture the New York State featherweight title on July 10, 2010, in Poughkeepsie. Del Valle was an outstanding amateur for the U.S. before turning pro in April 2008.<\/p>\n

Nguyen \u2013 not to be confused with the former NFL player with the same name \u2014 has competed exclusively in the United States since turning pro in May 2004. As an amateur in 2003, he became the first Vietnamese-American to earn a spot in the U.S. Championships, where he lost to eventual Olympic gold medalist Mickey Bey. The 28-year-old Nguyen, a resident of Vero Beach, Fla., has won his last six starts, all by decision, including an eight-round decision over Andres Ledesma in his last fight on Oct. 10, 2009. Nguyen suffered his lone loss on a six-round split decision to Gregorio Torres in August 2007.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez, 21, possesses good movement and boxing ability \u2013 he\u2019s not merely a brawler \u2013 yet has fought into the seventh round only once, and that came in his last outing against Rudy Cisneros at Chumash this past May 13. Eleven of his KO wins have come within three rounds. \u201cI\u2019m in the prime of my career but I\u2019m training like never before to show my quality to the world,\u2019\u2019 said Gonzalez, the No. 11 contender in the World Boxing Association (WBA) who\u2019s fought 10 of his 13 fights in the U.S. \u201cThis is a quick turnaround for me, but I\u2019ll be ready for it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Gutierrez, 32, is a physically strong, well-conditioned veteran who is experienced against capable competition. \u201cI\u2019m a complete boxer,\u2019\u2019 said Gutierrez, who is moving up in weight for this. \u201cI\u2019ll adjust, depending on how the fight is going. I\u2019ll work the body, the corners, the ropes, or the middle.\u2019\u2019 A winner of 21 in a row after turning pro in January 2001, Gutierrez dropped a decision to then-undefeated Carlos Abregu on Feb. 6, 2006, on SHOWTIME.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve called about three of Del Valle\u2019s fights in the past. From the beginning, I saw a technically sound fighter whose extensive amateur experience is obvious. In a sense, he fights more like a Mexican than a Puerto Rican because he loves to shoot the left hook to the body. He\u2019s a prospect I look forward to seeing on ShoBox,\u201d said veteran SHOWTIME commentator Steve Farhood. \u201cGonzalez is a very young fighter with a perfect KO record so as he moves up we\u2019ll see how legit his KO record is.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The telecast\u2019s bow-by-blow announcer will be Curt Menefee with Farhood handling the expert analysis.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: Vincent Arroyo sustained an injury during training. His fight versus Hector Sanchez is off. SHOWTIME will move ahead with a doubleheader for this Saturday\u2019s special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation at 10:35 p.m. ET\/PT. On a second consecutive night of fights on ShoBox: The New Generation on SHOWTIME\u00ae, two Puerto Rican fighters will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[656,3618],"class_list":["post-11301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-shobox","tag-vincent-arroyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11301"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}