{"id":18141,"date":"2012-02-07T06:55:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T11:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=18141"},"modified":"2012-02-07T06:55:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T11:55:18","slug":"breaking-boxing-news-michael-oliveira-returns-to-the-ring-on-feb-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=18141","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Boxing News: Michael Oliveira Returns to the Ring on Feb 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=18141\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=18141\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4245\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\" title=\"MichaelOliveiraheader\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MichaelOliveiraheader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Undefeated middleweight prospect Michael \u201cThe Brazilian Rocky\u201d Oliveira will make his Canadian boxing debut this Saturday night (Feb. 11) on a card, presented by United Promotions in association with Hennessy Sports, at Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. The exciting 21-year-old Oliveira (16-0, 12 KOs), rated #14 by the WBC, will fight Sergei \u201cBaltic King\u201d Melis (18-7, 7 KOs) inan eight-round special middleweight attraction. Oliveira, a Brazilian native who was raised in lives in Miami, was supposed to make his Canadian debut back on December 17 in Quebec City, but he was forced to withdraw from fighting on that show due to a stomach virus, high fever, and dehydration. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to showcasing Michael to a large Brazilian community in Canada,\u201d said Michael\u2019s father and promoter, Carlos Oliveira (president of MO Productions). \u201cWe\u2019re expecting a very warm welcome from Brazilians there who have already started purchasing VIP packages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s entertaining event is headlined by unbeaten welterweight Samuel Vargas (8-0-1, 2 KOs), a native of Colombia living in Mississauga, against former Canadian light welterweight champion Manolis Plaitis (17-1-1, 8 KOs), of Quebec, in a 10-rounder for the vacant Canadian welterweight title.<\/p>\n<p>The six-round co-feature finds local fan-favorite Brandon \u201cBad Boy\u201d Cook (4-0, 2 KOs), taking on upset-minded middleweight Chris Aucoin (4-5-1).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be adding Michael Oliveira to an already exciting card that will air on Rogers Television,\u201d co-promoter Adam Harris (Hennessy Sports) commented. \u201cWe are expecting a good turnout from the many Brazilians living in the Greater Toronto area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/twitter-ad-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undefeated middleweight prospect Michael \u201cThe Brazilian Rocky\u201d Oliveira will make his Canadian boxing debut this Saturday night (Feb. 11) on a card, presented by United Promotions in association with Hennessy Sports, at Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. The exciting 21-year-old Oliveira (16-0, 12 KOs), rated #14 by the WBC, will fight Sergei \u201cBaltic King\u201d Melis [&hellip;]<\/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":[105,1636],"class_list":["post-18141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-michael-oliveira"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141","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=18141"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}