By Jake Donovan
What's the best way to get fans to tune in to your latest boxing telecast?
The brass at Top Rank believe it's by offering the opportunity to attend the next one on their dime.
A special promotion
will be run throughout tonight's edition of Top Rank's
Metro PCS Friday Night Knockout
series on truTV (Friday, 10:00 p.m. ET/PT), with unbeaten super middleweight contender Gilberto Ramriez facing Gevorg Khatchikian from The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.
At stake for Ramirez (32-0, 24KOs) is a guaranteed crack at the winner of Saturday's super middleweight title fight showdown between Arthur Abraham and Martin Murray.
Of interest to viewers along with the live actin is a chance to win a grand prize packagae including free travel and ringside tickets for the December 11 truTV-televised card in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The winner will receive: round-trip airfare for two (2) travelers to and a two-night hotel stay in San Juan, along with two (2) ringside tickets for the show, which features unbeaten lightweight contender and local favorite Felix Verdejo versus Brazil's Josenilson dos Santos and a super bantamweight clash between former four-division champ Nonito Donaire and Mexico's Cesar Juarez.
Participation will require the following:
Viewers tuning in for Friday's televised show on truTV, which airs at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. (can also catch the replay at 2:00 a.m. ET/PT);
Looking and listening for three (3) passwords featured throughout the telecast
Submitting the passwords to @trboxing and @trboxeo from a valid Twitter account, using #truPasswords as the identifying hashtag by no later than 6:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, November 21, 2015
Participants can submit up to five (5) entries through their Twitter account. Subsequent attempts made by the same individual to submit multiple entries by using multiple Twitter Accounts or false contact information or otherwise may result in the entrant being disqualified.
The grand prize winner will be selected November 23, 3:00pm ET.
For official rules, please visit toprank.com/trip-to-pr.
Jake Donovan is the managing editor of BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox
