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St. Anthony's Grad To Headline Paramount Boxing [VIDEO]

Chris Algier to face former Olympian Bayan Jargal in televised main event.

Chris Algieri, 27, of Greenlawn, can do it all.

Algieri, who captained the wrestling squad at High School, and later transitioned to the full-contact kickboxing arena, is now 11-0 as a professional boxer.

The up-and-coming fighter earned his Master's in Clinical Nutrition, and works at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

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Algieri's fight against Jargal will be televised live via Azteca America and tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster.  For more information, visit the show's promoter, Joe Deguardia's Star Boxing.

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