10.02.07 – Weigh-In: Shane Mosley 147 lb -Luis Collazo 147 lb / Vivian Harris 140 lb -Juan Lazcano 140 lb — The welterweights take center stage in Las Vegas when WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: SHANE MOSLEY VS. LUIS COLLAZO AND VIVIAN HARRIS VS. JUAN LAZCANO is seen live from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on SATURDAY, FEB. 10 (9:45 p.m. ET/6:45 p.m. PT/8:45 p.m. CT). The HBO Sports team of Jim Lampley, Larry Merchant and Emanuel Steward will be ringside for the event, which will be available in HDTV, as well as closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired and presented in Spanish on HBO Latino..
In the main event, former three-division champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley (43-4, 37 KOs) from Pomona, Cal. takes on Brooklyn’s Luis Collazo (27-2, 13 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round welterweight showdown. The only fighter in history to defeat Oscar De La Hoya twice, Mosley is riding high after back-to-back wins over Fernando Vargas and looks to regain a welterweight title. He’s also been a junior middleweight and lightweight champ. Collazo, himself a former welterweight champ who lost his title in a close contest to Ricky Hatton last May, seeks to upset Mosley and return to the top of the division.
The evening’s opening bout is a scheduled 12-round junior welterweight clash between Vivian Harris (27-2-1, 18 KOs) of Brooklyn, by way of Georgetown, Guyana, against Juan Lazcano (37-2-1, 27 KOs) from El Paso, Tex. Harris is a former champion in the division and has won two fights since losing the title last June. Lazcano is on a four-fight winning streak after losing to Jose Luis Castillo. The victor of this match at 140 pounds is expected to move on to a shot at a junior welterweight title.
All WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING events are broadcast in HDTV. HBO viewers must have access to the HBO HDTV channel to watch HBO programming in high definition.
The executive producer of WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING is Rick Bernstein; producer, Dave Harmon; director, Marc Payton.