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Felix Verdejo and Sean Monaghan scored back-to-back first-round knockouts on Saturday night at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

Philadelphia-born super middleweightt prospect Jesse Hart rose to 7-0 with his fifth knockout against Marlon Farr on the Nonito Donaire-Guillermo Rigondeaux undercard at Radio City Music Hall.

Nonito Donaire on his staredown with Rigondeaux: "I felt like he just couldn't look at me in the eyes for that long. It's just one of those things."

In part II of Lee Groves' Travelin' Man trip to Philadelphia the CompuBox wizard gets an education on the city's boxing culture from veteran fight scribe Bernard Fernandez before counting punches for the entire NBC Sports Net Fight Night card.

Jesse Hart, son of Philadelphia middleweight legend Eugene "Cyclone" Hart, debuted with a first-round knockout of Manuel Eastman on Saturday night.

Combatants on the Pacquiao-Bradley undercard, which includes Jorge Arce vs. Jesus Rojas, Mike Jones vs. Randall Bailey and Guillermo Rigondeaux vs. Teon Kennedy, gathered at the final press conference before Saturday's big event.

A trio of Philadelphia fighters -- welterweight Mike Jones, junior featherweight Teon Kennedy and middleweight Jesse Hart -- held a media day workout for the June 9 Pacquiao-Bradley undercard.

Middleweight Jesse Hart, son of Eugene "Cyclone" Hart, will debut for Top Rank Inc. on the June 9 undercard of the main event featuring Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley.