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ЛАС ВЕГАС, НВ (Јул 27, 2016) – The 4тх Annual Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame Ceremony kicks off ово петакЈул, 29, 2016, with a meet and greet at the world renowned Caesars Palace у Лас Вегасу. The daylong event will commence from 11:00 а.м. – 5:00 п.м. and take place at Caesars Palace on the 3рд floor outside the Palace Ballroom in the pre function area. Boxing champions from past and present will be on hand to sign autographs and take photos with those in attendance. The event is open to the public. Charity donations, which will be donated to local boxing programs, will be accepted during the event.
У суботу Јул, 30, 2016, eleven members of the boxing fraternity will be honored with induction into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. In the boxer category, Риддицк Бове, Реј Манчини, Christy Martin, Пернелл Вхитакер,Рикардо Лопес и Freddie Little will be inducted, and all six have confirmed their attendance. In the non-boxer category, тренери Kenny Adams, Thell Torrence и Johnny Tocco are the honorees, and will be joined by boxing writer Тим Далберј and broadcaster Џејмс “Smitty” Ковач. Нажалост, Tocco passed away in 1997, but all of the others are confirmed to be on-scene for their inductions.
Below are the list and times of the boxing icons that will be present at Петак меет анд греет.
11am-12pm Ана Јулатон – Former 2-time Women’s Super-Bantamweight World Champion
Hasim Rahman – Former 2-time Heavyweight World Champion
Девин Ханеи – Undefeated Rising Star and Featherweight Phenom
Исхе Смит – Former Super-Welterweight World Champion
Richard Steele – Famed Retired Boxing Referee
12pm-1pm Џеси Варгас – Current WBO Welterweight World Champion
Мике МакКаллум – Former Light Middleweight, Middleweight and Light Heavyweight Champion
Verno Phillips – Former 2-time Super-Welterweight World Champion
Леон Спинкс – Former 2-time Heavyweight World Champion
Bones Adams – Former Super-Bantamweight World Champion
Терри Норрис – Former 3-time Super-Welterweight World Champion
1pm-2pm Laura Serrano – Former Women’s Super-Featherweight World Champion
Рикардо Лопес – Former Minimumweight and Light-Flyweight Champion
Кевин Кели – Former Featherweight World Champion
Јоел Цасамаиор – Former Super-Featherweight and Lightweight World Champion
Риддицк Бове– Former 3-time Heavyweight World Champion
2ам-3пм ава витез – Former 2-time Women’s Flyweight World Champion
James Smith – Boxing Commentator and Host of In The Corner TV show
Бадоу Џек – Current WBC Super-Middleweight World Champion
Eddie Mustafa Mohammad – Former Light-Heavyweight World Champion
3pm-4pm Christy Martin – Former Women’s Super-Welterweight World Champion
Пернелл Вхитакер – Former Lightweight, Super-Lightweight and Welterweight World Champion
Заб Јудах – Former Super-Lightweight and Welterweight World Champion
Quick Tillis – Former Heavyweight World Title Challenger
Ernie Shavers – Former Heavyweight World Title Challenger
Шон Портер – Former Welterweight World Champion
4pm-5pm Elena Reid – Former Women’s Flyweight World Champion
Freddie Little – Former Super-Welterweight World Champion
Kenny Adams – Professional Boxing Trainer)
Paulie Ayla – Former Bantamweight and Super-Bantamweight World Champion
Цристина Понцхер – Boxing Commentator
Бернардо Осуна – ESPN Boxing Commentator
The Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame is an IRS 501-c-3 non-profit, charitable organization which donates to boxing-related causes. Ticket purchases, auction or raffle purchases, and donations are tax-deductible.
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ROC NATION SPORTS ANNOUNCES NON-TELEVISED UNDERCARD FIGHTERS FOR ANDRE WARD VS. ALEXANDER BRAND
НА СУБОТА, АВГУСТ 6 НА ОРАЦЛЕ АРЕНА ин Оакланд, ЦАЛИФОРНИА
ВАРД ВС. BRAND TO BE TELEVISED LIVE
ON HBO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING®
ПОЧЕТАК У 10:35 п.м. И/ПТ
ЊУЈОРК, НИ (Јул 26, 2016) – Two-Time World Champion and top-rated pound-for-pound fighter Andre Ward (29-0, 15 КОс) ће се вратити у ринг на Субота, Август 6, to continue his conquest of the light heavyweight division when he takes on power-punching Colombian Alexander Brand (25-1, 19 КОс) на Орацле Арени у Оакланду, Калифорнија. Догађај, which will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing beginning at 10:35 п.м. И/ПТ, will now include six bouts of non-televised action for ticketed fans to enjoy before the main showdown.
The promising undercard lineup will feature East Bay familiar, Bilal Mahasin and a collection of Roc Nation Sports’ brightest prospects including, Данијел "Твитцх" Франко, Rudy “The Revelation” Puga Jr. и Darmani “Rock Solid” Rock. Roc Nation Sports’ sparkplug Maurice “Mighty Mo” Hooker also looks to ignite Oracle Arena as the card’s co-feature in a 10-round NABO Junior Welterweight Title clash against Tyrone Barnett.
Maurice “Mighty Mo” Hooker (20-0-2, 15 КОс) was born and raised in Oak Cliff, Тексас, a suburb of Dallas, where he found a boxing home at Maple Avenue Boxing Gym by way of an outreach program for at-risk youths. His natural talent was soon noticed resulting in him competing as an amateur, during which time he participated in over 100 туче, саставити записник о 97 победа и само 7 губици, са 67 victories coming by way of knockout. Hooker turned professional on April 29, 2011, taking on the vastly more experienced Tyrone Chatman at the Orpheum Theater in St. Луис. After four rounds, the judges saw the fight 40-36, 37-39 и 38-38, making the fight a split draw. Undeterred, in his next fight on June 24, 2014, Hooker scored his first professional win, knocking out Wilbert Mitchell in the first round at the Dr. Pepper Arena in Frisco, Тексас. Eleven wins (eight by knockout) later, he took on undefeated Abel Ramos on January 17, 2014 in a bout that was featured on ShoBox from the Cook Convention Center in Memphis. After eight close, hard-fought rounds, the judges saw the fight a draw. Four consecutive knockout victories would follow before he took on fellow undefeated prospect Eduardo Galindo on June 26, 2015 at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in Dallas for the vacant NABO Junior Welterweight Championship. “Mo” did not disappoint his legion of hometown fans who saw him capture the title with a sixth round technical knockout victory. На октобра 17, 2015, Hooker successfully defended his title at Madison Square Garden in New York City against his toughest opponent to date in Ghislain Maduma. The 10-round decision win came on the undercard of Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemieux and was featured on the event’s “freeview” as well as streamed online around the world. “Mighty Mo” made his debut under the Roc Nation Sports banner on the undercard of Andre Ward vs. сулливан Баррера, this past March at Oracle Arena in Oakland, КАО ШТО СУ, where he annihilated opponent Wilfrido “La Roca” Buelvas of Columbia in the first round of a 10-round junior welterweight bout by way of technical knockout. Hooker looks to advance his undefeated record when he takes on Tyrone Barnett (23-4-1, 15 КОс) о Август 6 у Орацле Арена. Barnett was in action this past February, with a technical knockout victory over Daniel Attah at the Walter E. Вашингтон Цонвентион Центер. The D.C. native is eager to stop Maurice Hooker’s momentum and take home the NABO title.
Пореклом из Риверсиде, Калифорнија и бори из бокса жариште Окнард, непоражен Јуниор лаган Данијел "Твитцх" Франко (13-0-3, 8 КОс) почела је бокс у доби од осам, амассинг аматерску запис 67-15, освајање првенства у Окнард ПАЛ 2006 и Цалифорниа Стате Голд Рукавице првенство у 2007 успут. Током Франка професионалног дебија децембра 18, 2010, Он је победио Емануел Мацхорро у клубу 401 у Онтарију, Калифорнија преко трећег кола техничким нокаутом. Франко импресионирао на почетку каријере, састављања Ундефеатед рекорд са два ремија у дворанама широм Калифорније до краја 2013. Један од оних извлачења је против Алејандро Оцхоа у мирном Цаннон у Монтебелло, Калифорнија септембар 20, 2013, али у реваншу три месеца касније, Франко оутматцхед Оцхоа постигао шест-округли једногласном одлуком победу на Вестин Бонавентуре Хотел у Лос Анђелесу. Јуна 20, 2015, током Вард-овог повратка у ринг у Орацле Арени, Franco saw action in an eight round junior lightweight bout against Jonathan Alcantara and won by unanimous decision. In his most recent fight on March 26, 2016 на Орацле Арени у Оакланду, California on the Andre Ward vs. Sullivan Barrera undercard, the unbeaten Twitch met Mexico’s German “Panteonero” Meraz in an eight-round featherweight bout. Franco scored a technical knockout over the veteran fighter in the final round of the fight.Август 6 will be Franco’s third appearance at Oracle when he takes on Renton, Washington’s Marcelo Gallardo (7-3-2, 3 КОс). The 26-year-old Gallardo has been known to play the spoiler role, scoring unanimous decision victories over unbeaten prospects Christopher Diaz and Vic Pasillas in 2015.
Having compiled an exceptional amateur record of 99-8, Rudy “The Revelation” Puga. Јр. (8-0, 7 КОс), the promising prospect from Salinas, California made his professional debut on September 2, 2011, scoring a fourth round technical knockout victory over Raul Talamontes at the Sports Complex in his hometown. Back in the ring less than two months later, Puga Jr. raised his record to 2-0 with a first round technical knockout of Jose Jesus Hurtado at the Sherwood Inn in Salinas. U junu 2012, he sent Thomas Turner to the mat four times scoring a second round technical knockout win at the Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Невада. After a little more than a year away from the ring, he rededicated himself to the “sweet science” with a vengeance and on February 17, 2014, Puga Jr. made his comeback stopping Charon Spain in the third round with an overpowering body shot at the Salinas Storm House in his native Salinas. Puga Jr. rounded out 2015 with a four-round technical knockout of Katrell Straus and a six-round unanimous decision over Juan Carlos Rojas. О Фебруар 12, Puga Jr. extended his undefeated streak to 7 fights by knocking out Alejandro Osuna in two rounds at the Double Tree Hotel in Ontario, Калифорнија. In his most recent fight on March 26, 2016 на Орацле Арени у Оакланду, California on HBO’s Andre Ward vs. Sullivan Barrera undercard, Puga Jr. extended his undefeated streak against Carlos “Kalimba” Lozano by way of a technical knockout in the sixth round. The Southern California native returns to the Bay Area on Август 6 to face an opponent to be announced.
Brooklyn’s undefeated Junior “The Young God” Younan (9-0, 7 КОс) Сматра се једним од Нев Иорк Цити најбољим изгледима боксерским. Иоунан, тренирао његов отац Схериф, бивши професионални боксер сам, began fighting competitively at age eight and only two years later was called a “boxing prodigy” by the New York Times. Он је саставио аматерску запис 90-5, рацкинг до импресивну серију наслова на путу, укључујући девет Јуниор Олимпијским првенства, девет Јуниор Метро првенства, осам Нев Иорк Силвер рукавице првенства и пет регионалних Силвер Рукавице првенства. У 2011, Он је крунисан Натионал Јуниор Голден Гловес шампиона и био САД. Број Бокс је један оцијенио јуниор боксер у својој класи,. Мање од месец дана након његовог 18тх рођендан, Иоунан је свој професионални деби на новембар 9, 2013, на Авиатор спорта и Евентс Центер у Бруклину, Њујорк, заустављање Кеннетх Сцхмитз у првом колу. During his recent match up on the Andre Ward vs. Sullivan Barrera undercard that took place March 26, 2016, Younan scored a four round unanimous decision over Christian Solarzano, pitching a shutout on all three scorecards. Facing his stiffest test to date on May 13, 2016 on the undercard of throne boxing’s Dusty Hernandez-Harrison vs. Mike Dallas, Јр. on BET and Tidal.com, Younan overwhelmed Rodrigo Almeida of Woburn, Massachusetts with a technical knockout in the first round at the DC Armory in Washington, Д.Ц.. Returning to Oakland on the Ward vs. Brand undercard, Younan is set to take on Jaime “Zarco” Solorio (5-2-2, 4 КОс) о Август 6. Fighting out of Baja, Калифорнија, the Mexico native is riding an undefeated streak in his last six fights.
У доби од 20, Darmani Rock (3-0, 3 КОс) is already drawing comparisons to former heavyweight greats of the past. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Rock was brought to a local boxing ring by his father at age twelve after he lost a street fight to neighborhood bullies. Standing at 6’4”, he moves with an unparalleled lightness and speed for a fighter his size. Rock earned nation-wide accolades following a banner year in 2014 when he took home the USA Boxing Junior and Youth Open, Youth Continental and Youth World super heavyweight titles. During the 2014 Junior and Youth Open in Reno, Невада, Rock shut out the 2013 National Youth Champion, John Luna, 3-0. This impressive performance was followed by another super heavyweight title at the Youth Continental Championships in March 2014 in Quito, Ecuador where he defeated Argentina’s Kervin Espinola 3-0. Rock then took home the gold medal at the prestigious World Youth Championships in Bulgaria in April 2014 by a 2-1 decision over Germany’s Peter Kadiru. Rock also took home the 2014 World Junior Amateur Championship and capped off 2014 by being named Philadelphia’s Amateur Boxer of the Year at the annual Briscoe Awards. His most noteworthy win, међутим, came in May 2015 when he beat Cam Awesome in Las Vegas for the National Golden Gloves title. Rock also captured the 2015 У.С. National Amateur super heavyweight championship. He ended his amateur career as the number one rated super heavyweight in the United States (and the number five rated super heavyweight in the world) одлазак 19-5 in national tournaments. Rock made his highly anticipated professional debut, after signing an exclusive promotional agreement with Roc Nation Sports, against Rockville, Maryland’s Carlos Black on May 13, 2016, as the co-feature of Roc Nation’s throne boxing card at the Armory in Washington, Д.Ц.. Following a devastating left hook, Rock brought his opponent to the floor with a right-left combination at the 1:54 ознака првог круга. Without wasting any time, Rock followed his impressive debut by demolishing his next two opponents, Bobby Favors and Hassan Lee, both by way of knockout in the first round of the respective bouts. Making his Oracle Arena debut on Август 6, Rock looks to keep his fierce win streak alive when he takes on Мајк Кајл (1-2-1, 1 КО). The Boise, Idaho native seeks to reaffirm the impression he has set on Oakland where he scored his first career win and knockout over James Kirby this past January.
Bilal “Rebellious” Mahasin (8-3-1, 1 КО) is no stranger to Oakland fight fans. A resident of the Bay Area’s eastern shore, Mahasin made his professional debut in 2002 with great promise, winning his first three fights. На новембра 10, 2013, he fought one of the area’s top junior welterweight fighters, Moris Rodriguez, at the Red Lion Hotel in Sacramento, Калифорнија. East Bay supporters made the trek to the state’s capital for Mahasin’s triumphant return which came by way of a six-round unanimous decision. Mahasin has accrued a ring record with a majority of the results coming as wins, and has transitioned up a weight class to super welterweight. He last fought on June 11, 2016 у 16тх Street Rail Station in Oakland, going the distance with a six-round unanimous decision over Vincente Guzman. Mahasin is ready to take on journeyman Луис Алфредо Луго (14-25-1, 5 КОс) о Август 6 at Oracle Arena in front an ever-steadied fanfare.
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18-year old Chaise Nelson remains undefeated with unanimous decision victory
YOUNGSTOWN, ОХ (Јул 25, 2016) – Прошлог Субота, Pro Box Management’sперо перспектива, 18-години Chaise “Претти Бои” Нелсон, остала непоражена, winning a unanimous decision over Hector Gonzalez, improving his record to (4-0, 3 КОс). Going the distance for the first time in his career, Nelson reflects on is recent victory.
“This was a good experience for me, being that I got to go the full four rounds for the first time in my career,” said Chaise Nelson. “Gonzalez was using a lot of movement so I had to be more aggressive at times. In boxing there are some many different styles. Sometimes you’ll face guys who will box and other times you’ll face guys who will bang. I’m just glad I won every round and got the victory. I’ll be right back in the gym getting ready for my next fight.”
Нелсон, who is an Ohio native, was making his U.S. деби. Many family and friends were in attendance to support Ohio’s next boxing start. Nelson was thrilled to see the support from his fans.
“It was a good feeling knowing I had a lot of family and friends in the crowd.” Nelson continued. “My hometown of Mansfield is a few hours away so I know everyone made a little sacrifice to come watch me fight. The goal is to continue fighting in Ohio to build my fan base. I can’t wait to get back in the ring.”
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