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Joshua Clottey gets ready for his fight against Marlon Thomas this Friday night at Turning Stone Resort and Casino in the main event on DiBella Entertainment's Broadway Boxing card. The native of Ghana was at the appropriately named "Joshua Tree" restaurant yesterday in NYC to preview the fight.

Photo: Clottey (left) with co-feature headliner Chris the Mechanic Smith.

DiBella Entertainment's popular Broadway Boxing series will makes its Turning Stone Hotel and Casino Event Center debut when the title and site sponsor hosts the Broadway Boxing "Friday Night Face Off" on Friday night, October 21st.The outstanding fight card will feature a pair of 10-round welterweight contests - Joshua Clottey vs. Marlon Thomas in the main event, and Chris Smith vs. Virgil McClendon in the co-feature.

Clottey (27-1, 20 KO's), fighting out of the Bronx New York, is a product of Accra, Ghana, which has produced the likes of boxing greats Azumah Nelson and Ike Quartey. Thomas (32-5-1, 21 KO's), a Detroit, Michigan veteran, will provide a stiff challenge for the once-beaten Clottey, a top contender in the welterweight ranks.

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