The first-ever live professional boxing competition is coming to Abu Dhabi. Lion Heart Boxing Productions, a global Boxing Promotion and Sports & Entertainment Company based in Kinnelon, New Jersey (USA), will introduce live professional boxing to Abu Dhabi by producing a version of its acclaimed Thursday Night Fights series at the 5,000-capacity du Forum, located on Yas Island, in Abu Dhabi. Abu
Dhabi’s first-ever live professional boxing event is billed Thursday Night Fights @ Yas Island and is scheduled for December 19, 2013. It will feature top boxers from the international scene as well local and regional boxing stars. Thursday Night Fights @ Yas Island, as the first-ever live professional boxing event in Abu Dhabi history, rightly will start with a big bang. Thursday Night Fights @ Yas Island will feature former British Heavyweight Champion and Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion Danny Williams (46-11), Moroccan Welterweight Champion Said Ouali (29-4), as well as Brazilian Welterweight Champion Antonio Mesquita (39-3) , all against opponents to be announced. Danny Williams’ illustrious career includes a knockout win over former Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World, Iron Mike Tyson. Williams also served as Two Times British Heavyweight Champion (most title defenses); Two Times Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion (also most title defenses); WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Champion; and WBU Champion. Mesquita and Ouali have each been ranked in the top ten boxer of their respective weight classes. Also, featured on the card is the long-awaited grudge rematch between Dubai’s Mohammad Ali Bayat (3-0) and Syrian Brawler Abdul Kabbani (3-1). Thursday Night Fights @ Yas Island will be televised live in the UAE nationally and regionally the MENA Region by Abu Dhabi Sports Television, in primetime. Thursday Night Fights @ Yas Island also will be streamed live on ESPN3, worldwide subject to an exclusion of Abu Dhabi Sports Television’s Territory (UAE and MENA Region), where it will be geoblocked. Additionally, will be televised on a delay basis in the USA in over 100 Million American cable homes and may syndicated regionally and in other markets, as worldwide feasible.
