"Fight of the Year," "Round of the Year," "Minute of the Year"; any and all the above are being used to describe Saturday's wild WBO Junior Welterweight Championship rematch between defending champion Ricardo Torres and the newly-minted world champion Kendall Holt.
Torres and Holt packed a lifetime of excitement into :61 seconds of a Pier Six Brawl that could have gone either way in front of an electrified and celebrity-filled?crowd at Planet Hollywood Resort?and Casino in Las Vegas.
Promoted by Top Rank, the fight was televised nationally on a special edition of Showtime's ShoBox: The New Generation. The replay will be?broadcast today, Tuesday, July 8 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHO2.
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