 – Pictures courtesy of Mikey Williams –
PROVIDENCE (Maí 18, 2016)) – Undefeated blue-chip featherweight prospect Toka “T-Nice” Kahn-Clary (17-0, 11 Kos) continues to show improvement in each and every fight. Last weekend, the 23-year-old Liberia-native knocked out seasoned veteran Orlando Rizo (19-7) in the fourth round at Sportsman Lodge in Studio City, California.
Kahn-Clary, berjast af Providence, may still be flying under the radar but he’s getting closer to becoming a breakout star. His most recent fight was his first scheduled 10-rounder.
“I put in a lot of hard roadwork, running seven miles a day, og (his head trainer) Peter (Manfredo, Sr.) really pushed me,” Kahn-Clary talked about preparing for his last fight. I got some good work from Javier Fortuna, sparring him a few times, and he’s a good southpaw.
“I wasn’t looking for a knockout but it just happened. I stepped left and threw a left. I didn’t load up but it was accurate, hitting him right on his chin. I was happy to get the knockout but I was looking forward to getting in some more rounds.”
“Nothing Toka does really surprises me because I’ve known since the beginning that he’s special,” Manfredo commented. “Toka continues to improve with each fight and he’s hungry to get to the next level. There’s no rush, he doesn’t turn 24 to next year. He’s still maturing. The kid he knocked out was Nicolas Walters’ main sparring partner.
“I just don’t want to put him in with the big names just yet. He’s maturing but he’s not all the way there. He’s improving all of the time, putting his combinations together better each fight. I’ve also noticed that he’s nice and relaxed in the ring now. He’s becoming a good boxer who always had power. Top Rank is doing a great job moving him. Everybody’s happy.”
 A skreytt American áhugamaður sem hafði 131-11 met, auðkenndur með gull-Medal árangur á að 2010 National Golden Gloves Tournament, Kahn-Clary framhjá skot til að gera 2016 Bandarískt. Olympic Boxing Team to turn pro three years ago.
“I’ve been boxing 10 ár núna,” Kahn-Clary added. “Knowing what I’ve already accomplished, I also realize that I’m still improving. I’ll be back in the gym Mánudagur to get ready for the next call we get about my next fight. (Top Rank’s) Brad Goodman is one of the best matchmakers in boxing. He and everybody at Top Rank are doing a great job positioning me for a big opportunity. That may not happen this year but, hopefully, it will sometime next year. I’m boxing so much better now than I ever did. I used to fight like I was in a fog but, nú, my eyes are wide open.”
Not bad for a kid who left his mother and siblings in Liberia when he was six, only to have his father murdered a year after he arrived in the United States. He’s overcome many difficult obstacles in his young life, most of them tougher than any opponents he’ll every fight, including a stretch in which he was homeless. It’s only made him tougher and an even better overall person.
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Undefeated prospect Toka Kahn-Clary Returns to ring this Saturday night vs. Gabino Cota in Studio City, California
CRANSTON, RI(Febrúar 8, 2016) – Rising super featherweight star Toka “T-Nice” Kahn-Clary(17-0, 11 Kos) returns to action this Saturday night against Mexican opponent Gabino “Flash” Cota (18-5-1, 16 Kos) at Sportsman Lodge in Studio City, California. A decorated American amateur boxer (131-11 met), his career highlighted by a gold-medal performance at the 2010 National Golden Gloves Tournament, Kahn-Clary is a native of Liberia who passed on a shot to make the 2016 Bandarískt. Olympic Boxing Team, beygja atvinnumaður þremur árum.
Kahn-Clary’s impressive second-round stoppage of Sergio “Cuatito” Lopez (19-10-1, 13 Kos) last November was supposed to lead him graduating to a 10-round fighter. His promoter Top Rank’s show laugardag, nafnið með Alex Saucedo vs. Clarence Booth, doesn’t have a single 10-round fight, in favor of three 8-rounders including Kahn-Clary vs. Cota.
“That really doesn’t matter to me,” Kahn-Clary said. “I trained to beat this guy, not how many rounds. I’m a lot better fighter than I was a year ago. I’m a lot more relaxed in the ring. I think more as I’m moving in the ring, adjusting a lot better, and my combinations are coming out a lot better.”
A former WBC FECOMBOX and Mexican featherweight champion, Cota is a dangerous opponent who has knocked out 16 af 18 fighters he’s defeated as a professional.
“Cota may have lost four of his last six but they were all title fights or on television against name opponents,” Kahn-Clary er yfirmaður þjálfari Peter Manfredo, Sr. benti. “He has some pop, throws a zillion punches and just keeps coming forward. This is a good step up for Toka.
“Toka is ready for this fight. He’s had a lot of good sparring. Toka is aggressive, well-conditioned, a good defensive fighter who can crack. There wasn’t a 10-round fight available on this card but we wanted this fight. Toka’s still only 23 so there’s no reason to rush things.”
Cota is battle tested having fought world title challengerJonathan Oquendo, Puerto Rican Olympian Orlando Cruzand Russian champion Andrey Klimov.
“I like fighting guys that come to me like Cota,” Kahn-Clary remarked. “It makes my job easier. I can setup my punches and fights against guys like this aren’t as much as a chess match. I’ll be landing hard shots and fans like that better than a chess match.”
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Undefeated horfur Toka Kahn-Clary Brautskráðir 10 umferð bardagamaður
-allar myndir kurteisi Mikey Williams / Top Rank-
CRANSTON, RI (Nóvember 25, 2015) – After his impressive second-round stoppage of Sergio “Cuatito” Lopez (19-10-1, 13 Kos) síðasta föstudagskvöld á The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, undefeated blá-flís featherweight horfur Toka “T-Nice” Kahn-Clary (17-0, 11 Kos) hefur opinberlega útskrifaðist frá átta til tíu umferð bardagamaður.
“”Flutningur minn var góður,” Kahn-Clary looked back on his knockout of Lopez. “I didn’t do anything to make it a difficult fight. I was a little concerned that my opponent came in overweight (128 £. Samningurinn þyngd en Lopez vega 132.2 lbs.), but I didn’t think too much of it. I really wanted to go four or five rounds for some more experience, en ég setti hann niður í aðra umferð með hægri krók, og tók hann út. (Lopez var ekki að svara bjöllunni fyrir þriðju umferð.)
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| (L-R) Toka Kahn-Clary og dómarinn Jay Nady |
“Ég er örugglega tilbúinn fyrir 10-rounders. (Head þjálfari) Peter (Manfredo, Sr.) alltaf hefur mér að gera mikið af ástand vinnu. Við sparred mikið umferðir fyrir átta umferð berst, so I’ve been ready for 10-round fights. I won’t be fighting again until next year, en ég kem aftur í ræktina næsta mánudag.”
A skreytt American áhugamaður sem hafði 131-11 met, auðkenndur með gull-Medal árangur á að 2010 National Golden Gloves Tournament, Kahn-Clary framhjá skot til að gera 2016 Bandarískt. Olympic Boxing Team, beygja atvinnumaður þremur árum.
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| (L-R) – Head þjálfari Peter Manfredo, Sr. & Toka Kahn-Clary |
“Ég held Toka gert stór yfirlýsingu og svo gerði Top Rank (Forgöngumaður Kahn-Clary er),” Manfredo added. “They’re so high on him that they want to put him in a big fight. I told them to give us a 10-round fight first, kannski í janúar eða febrúar, and then we can talk about him fighting a top guy. There’s no rush; hann er bara 23.
“Toka’s really maturing. He still doesn’t have ‘man strength’ but he’s getting there. He always works hard. He spars hard with bigger guys. He doesn’t just beat up a sparring partner, hann vinnur upp í ræktina, three or four fighters a session. And most of the time he’s sparring bigger guys and using big gloves.”
Fæddur í Líberíu, the 23-year-old Kahn-Clary is a rising star with lofty expectations. “Ég vil að keppa á efsta stigi,” he explained. “Næsta ár, I will keep working hard and hopefully fight some decent named opponents. I’m not ready for the top guys in my division, ekki enn, en ég ætla að vera þar í eitt ár.”
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Undefeated blá-flís horfur Toka Kahn-Clary Liberia innfæddur gerð nafn í Ameríku
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Til að berjast gegn Sergio Lopez laugardag í Las Vegas
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(allar myndir með Jeny Luna Hernandez-Watson)
PROVIDENCE (Nóvember 16, 2015) — Undefeated featherweight horfur Toka “T-Nice” Kahn-Clary (16-0, 10 Kos) gæti verið besta, tiltölulega “óþekkt” prizefighter í landinu, að minnsta kosti utan New England.
A skreytt American áhugamaður sem hafði 131-11 met, auðkenndur með gull-Medal árangur á að 2010 National Golden Gloves Tournament, Kahn-Clary skilar hringinn laugardag nótt (Nóvember. 20) á The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas gegn Mexican andstæðingi Sergio “Cuatito” Lopez (19-9-1, 13 Kos) í hvað er ætlast til að vera síðasta áætlunarflug átta umferð lota Kahn-Clary áður en hann útskrifast 10-rounders.
“Hann er sterkur Mexican bardagamaður sem getur kassi lítið að utan,” Kahn-Clary talaði um næsta andstæðing hans, “en hann kemur fram, of. Hann er reyndur og hefur verið í með fullt af góðum andstæðingum.”
Lopez er alvarleg próf fyrir hvaða möguleika. His last three fights include a loss to 18-0 Alejandro Luna (KO4) síðasta ágúst, 10-umferð hættu draga með 24-7-1 Joksan Hernandez, og töfrandi fimmta umferð tæknilega knockout af 16-0 Victor Betancourt.
“Lopez er a leikur,” Kahn-Clary er yfirmaður þjálfari Peter Manfredo, Sr. bætt. He’s tough but our plan is for Toka to take him apart and eventually take him out. Toka’s not far away from a really big fight, kannski 8-10 mánuðum. We were offered a big fight but, við þurfum eina 10-umferð berjast fyrst, og hann fá að berjast snemma á næsta ári.”
Kahn-Clary, berjast af Providence, er að koma af mest áberandi sigur hans sem faglegur júní sl, þar sem hann steig upp í bekknum til að taka á 33-11 Jonathan Perez, fyrrum Kólumbíu frábær bantamweight og World Boxing Council (WBC) meistari. Kahn-Clary stopped Perez in the sixth round of their fight on a card headlined by Timothy Bradley'S tímabundna heimurinn welterweight titill vinna yfir Jessie Vargas á Home Depot Center í Carson, California.
The 23-ára gamall, sem fæddist Toka Kahn, will never face obstacles in the ring more difficult to overcome than his early life experiences. Now a blue-chip prospect, he was born in Liberia and came to America with his younger sister to join their father when he was only six. He lived in Philadelphia only one year before his father was killed in a shooting. Toka’s arduous journey continued as he and his sister moved to Providence, þar sem þau bjuggu með fósturforeldrum sem, hreinskilnislega, ekki sama hvað gerðist þá.
Öll merki benda til Toka fá í vandræðum á Providence götum sem unglingur, sérstaklega á tímum, þegar hann var heimilislaus. Sem betur fer, þó, vinur fór með hann til Manfredo er líkamsrækt í Pawtuckert, RI. Boxing truly saved his life. Manfredo, USA Boxing New England forseti Jim Perella og hjónin að lokum samþykkt hann, Andrea Watson og Ron Clary, verulega breytt lífi hans.
Kahn-Clary undirritað kynningar samning við Top Rank, sem, ásamt stjórnanda Mike Criscio og Manfredo, hafa flutt Kahn-Clary á stöðuga, upp hraða. Kahn-Clary, tilviljun, mun vera að berjast fyrir í þriðja sinn á þessu ári, eftir að hafa fimm á síðasta ári.
 “Top Rank hefur unnið gott starf að halda mér upptekinn,” southpaw Kahn-Clary commented. “I know that it takes time to climb the ladder and I still need to improve a few things. I need to beat a top fighter to get into the world rankings. I’ll be ready when I get that call.“Ég er tilbúinn núna til a 10 eða 12 umferð berjast. I’ve done a lot of sparring to help me get ready to step up. I’m excited about fighting 10 og 12 round fights because it’ll be a test for me and I love to be test. The top guys in my division are the (Gary) Russell, (ÞreytturÉg) Lomachenkoog (Lion) Santa Cruz. I have the skills and heart to compete with them.”
Quality sparring í New England er á yfirverði, sérstaklega fyrir minni-þyngd bardagamaður eins Kahn-Clary, sem hefur fengið ómetanlega reynslu sparring með WBA frábær featherweightJavier Fortuna (29-0-1, 21 Kos), þriggja tíma US Olympian Rau'shee Warren og hans náungi New England og vinur, New Haven’s Luis “KO konungur” Rosa (21-0, 10 Kos).
“Peter (Manfredo) og mig ferðast til Worcester (MA) og Connecticut til að fá góða vinnu,” the gifted boxer-puncher Toka-Kahn explained. “It’s been a great help for me. I’ve gotten a lot of valuable experience in there with fighters like Fortuna and Warren. Ég hef séð hringur generalship þeirra, hreyfing þeirra, and I’ve learned from them. They’re smart. I’ve learned from them, even try to copy them. It’s not just about sparring, sem er að læra að upplifa. Ef þú lærir ekki af sparring, allt sem þú munt aldrei vera er sparring félagi.”
Manfredo hefur verið um og hann áttar sig á að verðlaun nemanda sínum, Kahn-Clary, will need to go away to training camp for good sparring when he starts fighting 10-rounders. “Ég er góður vinur Freddie Roach og við munum fara út til Kaliforníu og þjálfa á Wild Card Líkamsrækt,” Manfredo concluded. “I’m very happy with the way Toka’s been moved. I have faith in Brad Goodman, sem er einn af the bestur, if not the best matchmaker in the world. They’ve moved Toka along at a good pace. They know what they’re doing.”
Meðan, Toka Kahn-Clary plans to make his name in boxing next year. First, þó, hann þarf að komast framhjá Lopez laugardag nótt til að halda skriðþunga hans fara.
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