Former world champion Kermit Cintron takes on Eduardo Flores this Friday night at the 2300 Arena nyob rau hauv Philadelphia

Christopher Brooker – Antowyan Aikens in Super Middleweight main event

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Philadelphia, PA (Tej zaum 4, 2016)–NO Friday hmo ntuj, May 6th, a terrific night of boxing returns the 2300 Arena nyob rau hauv South Philadelphia as King’s Promotions presents a ten-bout card.
Nyob rau hauv lub ntsiab kev tshwm sim, rising super middleweight Christopher Brooker (8-1, 5 Kos) yuav siv sij hawm nyob rau hauv Antowyan Aikens (10-1-1. 1 KO) in a bout scheduled for eight-rounds.
Nyob rau hauv lub rau-round co-feature, former IBF Welterweight champion, Kermit Cintron (35-5-2, 28 KO lub) is coming full circle when he takes on Eduardo Flores (23-20-3, 15 KO lub) in a junior middleweight bout.
Cintron, who for most of the last decade was a heralded prospect, turned world champion, is reuniting with the team started him to his journey.
Everything has been great for this camp and I got excellent sparring and I am ready to go,” hais tias Cintron.
The Reading, Pennsylvania native is happy to fighting just forty-five minutes away from his hometown. He will making his first appearance in theCity of Brotherly Lovein fifteen years.

Fighting in Philly is exciting. I will have lots of family, friends from school and other friends be able to drive and see the fight. It is a great opportunity for them to watch me live. It’s been a long time but I am looking forward to it.

Most of Cintron’s fights in the past decade have been high-profile fights that have been seen in on premium cable television. Cintron is taking this stage of his career one fight at a time.
It is all up to my promoter Marshall Kauffman and King’s Promotions. When he says that I am ready for a bigger fight, that is when we will move to that. I am just trying to get my feet wet again. I am excited for this opportunity and to be back with Marshall. Marshall and Joe Pastore trained me to get to the top. Now Joe is training me and Marshall is promoting me and I am happy to be back with them. I am just trying to get back to being my old self again. I have been working on walking my opponents down.
This fight is ticketed for 154 phaus, but Cintron has eyes on welterweight glory again.
We will slowly work our way down and see how my body feels. This will be at 154. The next fight, I am looking at 150-151 and then hopefully 147.
In Flores, Cintron is fighting an experienced foe who has been in the ring with former world champion Carlos Baldomir plus a bevy of contenders and prospects.
I really do not know much on him other then he has fought a bunch of good fighters and he is from Ecuador. I just expect me to be my old self and if that is the case, a knockout should be happening on Friday.”
In a six-round super lightweight bout, Naim Nelson (12-1, 1 NC, 1 KO) battles Carlos Velasquez (24-23-2, 15 KO lub) ntawm Managua, Nicaragua.
In a six-round super welterweight bout, Erik Caij nplooj ntoos hlav (6-1,1 KO) Nyeemntawv, PA yuav tua Justin Johnson (6-11-4) ntawm Pittsburgh, PA.
Nyob rau hauv plaub-round bouts:
Scott Kelleher (4-0, 2 KO lub) ntawm Philadelphia yuav tua Terrell James (1-3-1) ntawm Philadelphia, PA. in a super lightweight fight.
Tyrone Crawley Jr. (4-0) ntawm Philadelphia yuav square tawm nrog Korey Sloane (2-8-2) of Philadelphia in lightweight bout.
Amir Shabazz (3-0, 1 KO) of Philadelphia fights Tahlik Taylor (1-3) of Freeport, NY. in a light heavyweight affair.
Aaron Brooks ntawm Philadelphia yuav ua kom nws debut pro tiv thaiv Ryan Bivins (0-1-1) of Philadelphia in super middleweight bout.

Thomas Velasquez (4-0, 3 KO lub) ntawm Philadelphia, PA yuav tua Grashino Yancy (1-0) ntawm Staten Island, New York in a super featherweight bout.

Emmanuel folly (6-0, 4 KO lub) ntawm Philadelphia, PA will take Bryan Perez Nevarez(2-3-1, 1 KO) ntawm Carolina, PR in a bantamweight contest.

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