Edet Mkapanam (Picture courtesy of Jess Marie Photography) QUINCY, ماس. (مئی 3, 2022)– Undefeated New Bedford (MA) light heavyweight prospect Edet Mkapanam (6-0, 5 کوس) is battling back from retina and shoulder surgeries that sidelined him 16 months before his successful ring return this past March.
The 27-year-old Mkapanam faces Scott “Bombz” Scott on the May 7ویںHometown Royalty” card, presented by Granite Chin Promotions in association with Cappiello Boxing Promotions and Shearns Boxing Promotions, at Bridgewater Veterans Club in Bridgewater, میسا چوسٹس (85 Cottage St.), marking the first professional boxing event ever held in that town.
Raised in Brockton, known as the “City of Champions, Mkapanam had an abbreviated amateur career (8-3), although he was a heavyweight winner in the 2017 Rocky Marciano Tournament, as well as runner-up a year later in the prestigious New England Golden Gloves Championships.
Mkapanam had back-to-back surgeries, starting with a torn ligament in his shoulder, followed by surgery to repair his retina in the right eye.
“I didn’t have much of an amateur career and I’ve been learning on the job (as a pro),” Mkapanam explained. “I learned in the gym sparring with some of the top fighters in New England like Peter Manfredo, جونیئر. and Mark Deluca. میرے دماغ میں, I wanted to continue fighting and I kept working hard in the gym while recovering. Some doctors said I shouldn’t fight again, so I upped my intensity in the gym, and when I was examined again the doctors said my eye was a lot better and I was cleared to fight. I had a tough training camp before my last fight, the first after my surgeries, and I wasn’t even thinking about my eye during that fight.”
Mkapanam looked relatively sharp in his March 19ویںcomeback fight, stopping pro debut fighter Igor Pessoa in the third round of their fight in Derry, نیو ہیمپشائر. اب, Edet is on a mission to make up for lost time.
“I’ve been working on my jab and some other things,"انہوں نے کہا. “My goal is to fight on bigger stages, which is one of the reasons I signed with (Granite Chin promoter) Chris Traietti. I respect Scott Lampert, but I’m on a whole different level in New England boxing, and I’m going to prove it this fight. I know Chris is going to get me opportunities to fight on bigger stages.”
“Edet was somebody I was interested in working with in the past, but then his injuries happened before we could formally get a deal together,” Granite Chin president Chris Traietti explained. “Once he reached out and told me he was cleared to fight again, I wasted no time making him an offer to sigh with Granite Chin. Edet is a great guy who works hard and wants to fight. We talked about a game plan for his career. We are both on the same page and you will be seeing him on a big stage in the very near future.”
Former New England Welterweight Champion Mike “Bad Man Ohan, جونیئر. (14-1, 8 کوس), of Holbrook, MA, headlines “Hometown Royalty” in the 8-round main event against Argentinian opponent Jose “El Chino” Aubel (8-9, 7 کوس).
کوئنسی (MA) lightweight Ryan “The Polish Prince” Kielczweski (30-6, 11 کوس), ایک 2008 National Golden Gloves silver medalist and 2-time New England Golden Gloves Champion, faces another Argentinian, Mario Lozano (18-5-1, 9 کوس), in the 8-round co-featured event.
Brockton welterweight prospect David Ribeiro makes his pro debut in a 4-round bout versus Joshua Zimmerman (0-8). Ribeiro was a celebrated amateur having won gold medals at the 2020 New England Golden Gloves, 2019 رنگ کے بادشاہ, and the regional Mike Tyson Tournament.
Fall River (MA) welterweight Damon Towns (4-0, 3 کوس) meets Robert Bricks (0-9) ایک 4 راؤنڈ مککیبازی میں.
تبدیلی کے کارڈ سے مشروط.
Tickets are on sale, $60.00 standing room and $40.00 floor seats, and available for purchase atwww.TicketRiver.com (تلاش کریں: Hometown Royalty).
(ایل پی آر) – The late, great Marvelous Marvin Hagler, his grandson James Jr., and son James
بوسٹن (فروری 15, 2022)– There are few family names in boxing, especially in New England, as universally revered as Hagler and Roach. They are part of boxing royalty.
There is a new connection as James Hagler, جونیئر, the grandson of the late Hall of Famer Marvelous Marvin Hagler, has signed an exclusive managerial contract with Fighter Locker, owned and operated by the nephew of Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach, Boston-based Ryan Roach.
The plan is for Roach to have Hagler fight in Massachusetts, ideally in Brockton, the City of Champions in which Hagler as well as another Hall of Famer, راکی Marciano, fought out of during their professional careers.
“I was looking for a manager and read about Ryan,” Hagler said. “I looked him up online, talked with him, and met him last weekend for the first time. He is not a greedy person. By far, he offered me the best deal I have ever received. He really wants to help me. Ryan’s a cool dude. I feel good about signing with him.
“Fighting someday in Brockton and Boston means a lot to me, because of my grandfather’s background, and that’s one of the reasons I signed with Ryan. My mother and father are from that area, and I still have a lot of family living on both sides living there. I’ll be the third member of the Hagler family to fight in New England, joining my grandfather and uncle (Robbie Simms)."
(ایل پی آر) – Ryan Roach & James Hagler, جونیئر.
“I’m excited to be managing James,” Roach commented. “Right away, I was interested in a fighter with the Hagler name. I spoke with James and he’s a good kid who is all in. He wants to prove himself on his own and I get that, because I want to make it on my own terms, not my last name. “We’re excited to get him fighting in New England. We’re going to do great things together. We plan on having him fight in Brockton, hopefully this summer, to bring boxing back to Brockton.”
The 31-year-old Hagler, who fights out of Atlanta, didn’t start boxing until he was 24. Why did he start so late?
“My grandfather didn’t want any of us (in the Hagler family) to box,” James explained. “I wanted to be a boxer since I was 3 یا 4. He didn’t want anybody in his family to go through what he did in the Sugar Ray Leonard fight. میرے ابو (a boxing promoter in Atlanta) was an amateur boxer who fought in the Olympic Trials. He stopped boxing because my grandfather wouldn’t watch him fight. My father didn’t want to continue fighting.
“There’s a lot of pressure on me fighting because people expect me to be like my grandfather or want me to live up to the Hagler name. I feel good following in my grandfather’s footsteps. When guys fight me, it’s like their championship fight, because they want to say they beat a Hagler for bragging rights. I know that they will always have their best fight against me.”
جیمز (2-1, 1 KO) had a relatively brief amateur career, fighting in Alabama and Georgia, and the southpaw made his pro debut December 14, 2019, in Ohio, when he stopped Michael Widmer in round one. He’s only had two fights since, winning one and losing the other, the latest this past November.
James Hagler, جونیئر. کارروائی میں
Hagler will fight as a super middleweight for now, but he intends to campaign as a middleweight in the same division his legendary grandfather owned for so many years. He does have a dream fight in mind, کہہ, “I met Muhammad Ali’s grandson (Nico Walsh). I’d love to fight him someday.”
Fighter Locker’s growing stable of gifted boxers also includes California super flyweight Rocco “So Cal Kid” Santomauro (21-1, 6 کوس), New York’s ABF American West super lightweight Ray Jay “The Destroyer” Bermudez (16-0, 11 کوس), Connecticut’s ABF USA super welterweight Jimmy “Quiet Storm” Williams (18-5-2, 6 کوس), Colorado’s ABF American West super middleweight champion “The Amazing” Shawn McCalman (10-0, 6 کوس), Massachusetts super lightweight Adrian “Tonka” Sosa (12-0, 9 کوس), Florida super bantamweight Daniel “The Dedication” Bailey, جونیئر. (10-0, 5 کوس), Massachusetts featherweight Troy Anderson, جونیئر. (4-0, 2 کوس), 2-time Brazilian Olympian & 2016 Olympic silver medalist Yuberjen Martinez, Brazilian Olympian Jorge Vivas, 2-time Dominican Olympian, lightweight Leonel de los Santos (5-0, 5 کوس), Dominican cruiserweight Roki “Rocky” Berroa (2-0, 1 KO), Dominican super welterweight Juan Solano Santos (1-0, 1 KO), Dominican featherweight Orlando Perez Zapata (10-0, 8 کوس), Dominican lightweight Isaelin Florian Henriguez (8-1, 4 کوس), Florida light heavyweight Robert Daniels, جونیئر. (6-0, 5 کوس), Irish light heavyweight Tommy “The Kid” O’Toole (3-0, 2 کوس), Texas super lightweight Miranda “La Alacrana” Reyes (5-1-1, 2 کوس), Massachusetts super featherweight Alex Rivera (3-0, 2 KO), Kansas brothers, welterweight Marcus (3-0, 3 کوس) and super lightweight Marcell (1-0), and Utah brothers, ABF American West lightweight champion Ignacio Chairez (9-0-1, 5 کوس) and lightweight Gabriel Chairez (4-0-1, 2 کوس).
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