{"id":8398,"date":"2011-03-07T11:43:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T16:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2011-03-07T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T16:45:06","slug":"michael-grant-vs-tye-fields-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8398","title":{"rendered":"Michael Grant Vs Tye Fields Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A clash of heavyweight titans, matching 6-foot-7-inch Michael Grant against 6-foot-9-inch Tye Fields, plus a battle between former world champion Joel Casamayor and late sub Manuel Leyva highlight a televised pay-per-view card on Friday in the Planet Hollywood Theatre for the Performing Arts at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Also on the card presented by Sterling Promotions in association with American Dream Presents and Heads Up Entertainment, in separate fights will be light heavyweight Ron Johnson and cruiserweight Aaron Williams, who\u2019ll be fighting for the USNBC interim 200-pound title. All four fights are scheduled for 10 rounds.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Grant has a record of 46-4 with 34 knockouts and has met far better opponents, including former world champion Lennox Lewis. Grant challenged, unsuccessfully, for Lewis\u2019 World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation titles during 2000.<\/p>\n

Grant burst back into the international spotlight in his most recent bout Aug. 21 with a stellar but, ultimately, unsuccessful, 12-round effort against No. 1-ranked (World Boxing Organization) heavyweight Tomasz Adamek.<\/p>\n

Fields, a southpaw who now divides his residences between Las Vegas and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has a record of 45-2 with 41 knockouts. While Fields is renown for his size, he has been untested during his 12-year pro career, meeting primarily less than top-notch competition. This fight against Grant not only will be Fields\u2019 toughest test, but could go a long way in determining the 35-year-old\u2019s future in the heavyweight division.<\/p>\n

Casamayor, the former World Boxing Association super featherweight and WBC lightweight champion, has a record of 37-5-1 with 22 knockouts, while Leyva has an impressive mark of 20-1 with 12 knockouts.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old Casamayor, a southpaw who\u2019s originally from Cuba, was the WBA 130-pound champion during 2000 to 2002 and the WBC 135-pound champ during 2006 and 2007. But he\u2019s best known for his two wins over the late Diego Corrales and, more recently, his knockout victory over Michael Katsidis.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Leyva, a southpaw from Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico has won 14 straight, the past four by knockout.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Johnson, originally from Cleveland but now residing in Las Vegas, has a record of 11-1 with three knockouts. The slick boxer has won five straight.<\/p>\n

His opponent, 27-year-old Brent Urban from Dallas, has a record of 7-3-1 with five knockouts.<\/p>\n

Williams, like Johnson, a 24-year-old who is originally from Cleveland but now residing in Las Vegas, has a record of 20-3-1 with 13 knockouts.<\/p>\n

His opponent, 34-year-old Shane Steele from Louisville, Ky., has a record of 7-3 with five knockouts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Other bouts on the card include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heavyweight Razvan Cojanu of Las Vegas, who represented Romania at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, making his pro debut against an opponent to be determined in a four-round bout;<\/p>\n

Super middleweight Semen Uporov of Las Vegas (10-1, 5 KOs) against Duane King of Reidsville, N.C., (2-2, 0 KOs) in a six-round fight;<\/p>\n

Light heavyweight Hiromitsu Miura of Tokyo (5-0, 3 KOs) against an opponent to be determined in a four-round clash;<\/p>\n

And super welterweight Dante Moore of Cleveland (6-0-1, 4 KOs) against an opponent to be determined in a four-round battle.<\/p>\n

Tickets, priced at $25, $40, $60, $90 and $150, are available at the Planet Hollywood Theatre box office. The PPV has a suggested price of $24.99.<\/p>\n

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A clash of heavyweight titans, matching 6-foot-7-inch Michael Grant against 6-foot-9-inch Tye Fields, plus a battle between former world champion Joel Casamayor and late sub Manuel Leyva highlight a televised pay-per-view card on Friday in the Planet Hollywood Theatre for the Performing Arts at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Also on […]<\/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":[105,1380,2847],"class_list":["post-8398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-michael-grant","tag-tye-fields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398","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=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}