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by Brent Brookhouse • Mar 12, 2010 8:56 PM EST
Former boxing champion Ray Mercer, who scored a nine-second knockout in his MMA pro debut last June against Tim Sylvia, will make his follow-up appearance against undefeated Ron Sparks at King of the Cage on April 16 in Detroit, Mich.
- MMA Fighting says Ray Mercer will return to the fight game against 5-0 Ron Sparks
Sparks is a huge, huge man. He's 6-5 and almost 300 pounds. A stand-up fight between these two could be fireworks, but if Mercer ends up below this mountain of a man it could get scary for the 48 year old former boxing champion.
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