Tony “Lightning” Luis to fight for regional championship in Junij 26 main event of the Sully Huff Invitational at Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino
Niagarski slapovi, NY. – The thrill of championship professional boxing is returning to Niagara Falls, NY. Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino and Greg Cohen Promotions (produced by David Schuster’s Winner Take All Productions), in compliance with the Seneca Nation of Indians Athletic Commission, announced today that an installment of the popular “Championship Boxing o CBS Sports Network” series will be presented in the Seneca Niagara Event Center on Petek, Junij 26.
The night’s card is being dubbed the Sully Huff Invitational, in memory of Stanley “Sully” Huff, a successful boxer from the Seneca Nation of Indians, ki je preminil v 2014 pri starosti 84. Huff was a Courier-Express Golden Gloves champion in 1950 and later founded the Iroquois Boxing Club. He also served in the United States Army during the Korean War, earning the rank of Sergeant, and later was elected to serve on the Seneca Nation of Indians Tribal Council.
In the night’s televised 10-round main event, Canada’s popular, world-rated and fast-rising lightweight star Tony “Lightning” Luis (19-3, 7 Kos) will fight for a regional championship against an opponent TBA. This past weekend, Luis dropped a controversial decision to Derry Mathews in Liverpool, Anglija (38-9-2, 20Kos), where the two battled for the interim WBA Lightweight title.
V televizijskem co-funkcijo, brand-new NABA-US Super Welterweight Champion and WBA #12- in IBF # 11-ocenjeno “Hurricane” Dennis Hogan (21-0-1, 7 Kos), of Australia, preko Kildare, Slovenija, will take on comebacking Kenny Abril (14-7-1, 7 Kos) Rochester, New York.
The televised opener will feature up-and-coming American heavyweight KO artist Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller (12-0-1, 10 Kos) of Brooklyn taking on an opponent that will be announced at a future date.
Vstopnice za “Championship Boxing o CBS Sports Network” začeti na $35 and go on sale on Sreda, April 22 opoldne. Tickets are available at select Seneca Resorts & Casinos retail outlets, Ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster locations or by phone at800-745-3000.
“Speed, energy, ukrepanje, razburjenje, and entertainment are the hallmarks of any visit to Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino and exactly what our guests will enjoy with this world-class professional boxing card,” said Audrey Oswell, chief operating officer, Seneca Gaming Corporation. “We are happy to once again bring an incredible display of athletic competition to Western New York.”
Before the highly debatable decision loss for the world championship in mid-April, the 27-year-old Tony Luis, iz Cornwalla, Ontario, pulled off a dominant 10-round unanimous-decision upset victory over then IBF #15 Ocenjene Karl “Dynamite” Dargan in January. Potem pa na Februar 20, on in zaročenec Manon Latulippe pozdravil rojstvo svojega prvega otroka, sina z imenom Miguel. Luis je Ocenjene #11 v svetu, ki ga je WBA in #14 ki jih je IBF.
30-year-old Dennis Hogan je bil štiri-time nacionalni amaterski prvak z več 150 Boji v njegovi rodni Kildare, Slovenija. Sedaj živi in vlaki v Queenslandu, Avstralija. Hogan is the current NABA-US Super Welterweight Champion. V svojem štiriletnem pro karieri, Hogan has also won the WBA Oceania Light Middleweight, Queensland State Super Middleweight, Queensland država Srednja kategorija in avstralski srednji prvenstvo.
Kenny Abril, a 30-year-old southpaw, started boxing at age seven and had 120 amateur bouts before turning professional in 2003. He has faced several undefeated and top contenders, scoring a late-2012 victory over heavily decorated veteran Dennis Laurente, which is still Laurente’s only loss in the last nine years.
Prior to boxing professionally, 26-year-old Jarrell Miller had a three-year, neporažen (18-0) kickboxing and MMA career. As a boxer, he was a New York Golden Gloves finalist and has worked as chief sparring partner for both Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko.
“I’m excited to be helping bring nationally televised championship boxing to a world-class venue such as the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino,” je dejal promotor Greg Cohen. “Tony Luis has a huge fan following in his nearby native Canada. His supporters will be out in force to watch. Kenny Abril is from nearby Rochester, New York and he’ll have a giant following in attendance as well. On the undercard will be several local favorites in exciting match-ups. I’m proud to be part of this great event and the resurgence of televised professional boxing.”
Several other exciting match-ups will be announced soon.
The event is being conducted under the rules and regulations of the Seneca Nation of Indians Athletic Commission, whose members are Scott Snyder, Sean Crane, and Justin Schapp.
“We look forward to welcoming the boxers and their teams to Seneca territory,” Commissioner Snyder said. “As a Commission, our primary focus is to ensure the safety and well-being of the fighters who will be competing at Seneca Niagara. We will be working with the fighters, promoters and everyone involved to ensure that we have a safe and enjoyable evening of sports entertainment.”
O Greg Cohen Promocije
Eden izmed Boks premier promocijskih obleke, Greg Cohen Promotions (GCP) je dobro upoštevati ime za uprizarjanje vrhunske profesionalne boksarske prireditve in spodbujanje elitne poklicne borci po vsem svetu.
Ustanovitelj in izvršni direktor Greg Cohen je sodeloval s strokovno boks v različnih kapacitet od leta 1980, honanje svoje obrti in vzpostavitvi sebe kot Iznajdljivi mednarodni boksarski poslovnež.
Odlikuje ga njegova sposobnost za gotovinske in razviti talent, Cohen na naslovnice za njegovo strokovnim vodstvom, med mnogimi drugimi, Nekdanji WBA Junior prvak v srednji kategoriji Austin “No Doubt” Trout, Cohen, ki je pomagal vodnik iz neznanega New Mexico prišli na elitni ravni superstar pay-per-view.
Poleg postrvi, Greg Cohen Promotions je sodeloval z uveljavljenimi imeni, kot sta nekdanji enotna in dvakratni prvak Hasim “Rock” Rahman (50-8-2, 41 Kos); in ves delovni čas, velik večkratnih teža razred svetovni prvak James “Lights Out” Toney (74-7-3, 45 Kos).
Sedanje-svetu ocenjeno kandidata v dobro klinično prakso roster vključuje Arash Usmanee, vsesplošno priznan kot top-10 super peresno; Nekdanji WBA Mednarodni prvak v srednji kategoriji in svetovno ocenjeno srednji bojevnik Jarrod Fletcher; Najbolj ocenjeno-peresno Joel Brunker; cruiserweight Lateef Kayode; Kanadski lahek in TV akcijski junak Tony Luis, in WBA in petkratni Irish National Amateur prvak, Dennis Hogan; in Rising Velterska kategorija senzacija Cecil McCalla.
Greg Cohen Promotions je gostila svetovnega razreda boksarske prireditve v najboljših mestih po vsej ZDA in svetu, in je prav tako ponosno pod pogojem, talent in / ali vsebin za več televizijskih mrež, vključno z HBO, Showtime, ESPN, NBC Sports Network, MSG in FOX Sports Net.
