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By Thomas Gerbasi - Long Island welterweight Tommy Rainone is quite the negotiator. Offered a slot on the Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Geale undercard against Dusty Harrison in Madison Square Garden this past July, Rainone turned it down, holding out for a better offer.
He got it, as he now faces Harrison in the Garden’s Theater on January 9th as the headliner on Roc Nation’s first event, one that will be televised on Fox Sports 1 and that will garner plenty of attention thanks to it being the first foray into the sweet science by Roc Nation boss Jay-Z.
Not bad, Rainone, not bad.
“I originally turned the fight down because there was no TV involved,” he explains. “I knew the Dusty Harrison people had me on their radar, and I knew I would get offered the fight again; it was just a matter of getting the most I could out of it. A main event at Madison Square Garden is more than enough for me. And it’s on Fox Sports 1 and it’s Roc Nation’s first show, so I’m happy that I held out.” [Click Here To Read More]
He got it, as he now faces Harrison in the Garden’s Theater on January 9th as the headliner on Roc Nation’s first event, one that will be televised on Fox Sports 1 and that will garner plenty of attention thanks to it being the first foray into the sweet science by Roc Nation boss Jay-Z.
Not bad, Rainone, not bad.
“I originally turned the fight down because there was no TV involved,” he explains. “I knew the Dusty Harrison people had me on their radar, and I knew I would get offered the fight again; it was just a matter of getting the most I could out of it. A main event at Madison Square Garden is more than enough for me. And it’s on Fox Sports 1 and it’s Roc Nation’s first show, so I’m happy that I held out.” [Click Here To Read More]