Gracia and Peterson will face off April 11th in Brooklyn at the Barclays Center as NBC makes its return to prime-time boxing. Last time NBC broadcast a fight was between Larry Holmes and Carl Williams was May 20, 1985.
I attended a luncheon for Premier Boxing held for the media at Junior in Brooklyn Lou DiBella spoke about how Boxing returning to NBC will give the Boxing sport the opportunity to reach 100 million household instead of 30 million. As boxing makes its resurgence to household to mainstream households NBC and PBC partnership will be huge. The sport of Boxing is heading towards its Super Bowl Mayweather vs. Pacquiao. I asked Lou said consider Gracia vs. Peterson to be boxing conference championship game. The entire undercard has yet to be announced but the publicized fight of Andy Lee and Peter Quillin will be a great faceoff in which Lou DiBella expects Quillin to take. Tickets to get into Barclays Center are as low as $50.