HOMECOMING 3次回归, 2-处世界冠军 “高卢” 何塞·安东尼奥·里维拉 FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2018 钯金, 伍斯特, 马萨诸塞州

Father-son Jose Antonio & A.J. 里维拉 “Making History” World champion’s return & son’s pro debut 八月 17 在伍斯特钯, 嘛 (L-R) 埃德温·罗萨, Josh Orta, 埃斯利·奥乌苏, 肯德里克球, 小, 吉米·伯奇菲尔德, Khiary灰色, 何塞·安东尼奥·里维拉, A.J. 里维拉, 查Shearns, Jose Angel Ortiz and Wilfredo Pagan

伍斯特, 质量. (七月 19, 2018) – 花岗岩下巴促销 (GCP) and Rivera Promotions Entertainment (RPE) hosted a press conference yesterday at The Ballot Box in Worcester, 马萨诸塞州, to make a major announcement, as well as introduce local fighters on the August 17^日pro boxing card at The Palladium in Worcester.

三次, 2处世界冠军 “高卢” 何塞·安东尼奥·里维拉 (41-6-1, 24 科斯) is making his return in the “Making History” 主要事件, in large part because he wanted to fight on the same card as his son, A.J. 里维拉, who was to become the first pro boxer who was born with Spina Bifida. A.J., who is a rising matchmaker in New England, was unable to get medically cleared in time and he will not be fighting Aug. 17.

The event has been renamed, “归国”, because six of the competing fighters, including Jose Antonio Rivera, live in Worcester.

“不幸,” announced promoter 查Shearns, who co-promotes Granite Chin Promotions with 克里斯·特雷蒂, “A.J. isn’t fighting on this show because he couldn’t get medically cleared in time.”

“I trained hard and was within five or six pounds of my contract weight,” a disappointed A.J. 里维拉解释. “I passed all of the medical tests except for the CATSCAN. I fought the doctor a little and said I wanted a second opinion. Those results won’t be in time, so I can’t fight on this card.”

“The reason I’m coming back was to make history with my son,” Jose Antonio Rivera added. “We had talked about it a long time but, 可惜, it wasn’t meant to be for A.J. for this card. He’s already part of history already as the only fighter born with Spina Bifida who fought as an amateur. I feel bad, but everything happens for a reason and as a father, my son’s safety always comes first. He will continue to be an important part of our team to make our company a success. People are thrown curveballs in life like this and we’ve regrouped to turn this into a positive. We’re still fighting for the cause (Spina Bifida).”

现在 45 岁, Rivera has already lost more than 30 英镑, and he is within eight of his contracted weight for his eight-round fight against 鲁本 “现代战士” 加尔万 (27-26-4, 10 科斯).

在 1997, 里维拉夺得国际拳击组织冠军 (IBO) 世界次中量级冠军, 停车 吉尔伯托·弗洛雷斯 在第二轮. 六年后, 他前往德国挑战不败的对手, 家乡的喜爱 米歇尔·特拉班特 (38-0) 为空置世界拳击协会 (WBA) 世界次中量级冠军, 里维拉赢得了 12 轮判定并赢得了腰带.

两个战斗后, in front of nearly 10,000 伍斯特的家乡球迷, Rivera won a 12-round unanimous decision in 2006 超过卫冕冠军 亚历杭德罗·加西亚 (25-1) 争夺WBA世界超次中量级冠军.

中量级 肯德里克球, JR. (9-1-2, 6 科斯) 和初中级 Khiary灰色 (15-4, 11 科斯), 均由 CES Boxing 推广, will be making their pro debuts at home in Worcester. Ball faces an opponent to be determined in the six-round co-featured event, 而灰色 (15-4, 11 科斯) 会见 安东尼奥·费尔南德斯查韦斯 (9-33, 4 科斯), 布罗克顿, 嘛, also in a six rounder.

Undefeated light heavyweight prospect 理查德 “大力水手曼” 里维拉 (8-0, 7 科斯), 哈特福德外的战斗, CT, is slated to fight in a six-round bout vs. TBA, as well as his stable mate, two-time New England Golden Gloves champion “被选中的人” Sharad Collier (1-0, 1 KO), who takes on his Mexican opponent, 伊曼纽尔 “Pollo” Valadez (5-4, 4 科斯), 在四轮比赛中.

斯普林菲尔德也计划在四轮比赛中进行底牌比赛, MA量级 何塞·安吉尔 “KO” Ortiz Jose Angel “KO” 奥尔蒂斯 (4-13-1, 1 KO) VS. 塞斯·巴斯勒 (0-8) 以及首次亮相的羽量级选手 约书亚奥尔塔 VS. 伍斯特的 埃德温·罗萨 (1-7-1, 1 KO), 南桥, MA量级 维尔弗雷 “该Sucaro” 异教徒 (4-0, 2 科斯) VS. TBA, Worcester lightweight Francisco Irizarry (4-0, 2 科斯) VS. TBA, Worcester’s pro-debuting lightweight 埃斯利·奥乌苏.VS. 墨西哥人 恩格尔贝托 “拆散” 巴伦苏埃拉 (11-14 (3 科斯).

所有战斗和战士都受到变革.

门票, 售价 $75.00 (马戏团) 和 $45.00 (一般取), 有售，并提供购买的 www.ThePalladium.net 或钯票房 (只是一般入学), 或通过联系圣何塞维拉 (elgallojar@gmail.com/508.864.6954), AJ里维拉 (anthoneerivera@gmail.com/774.272.2269) 或任何战机.

门开处 6 P.M. AND, 第一回合 7 P.M. AND.

活动赞助商包括龙格本田, 榆树财富集团, 阿蒂. 玛丽亚中号. 里维拉，库托, Championsofhealth@USANA.com, 酋长酒类, 美洲中心, 贝州储蓄银行, 帕梅拉·拉波特房地产, 伍斯特沃塞罗, ChrisFIT 体验和格栅 57 (举办官方称重和赛后派对).

部分收益将捐赠给大新英格兰脊柱裂协会.

新闻发布会行情

Joe Antonio Rivera: “I want to thank everybody for coming. Tomorrow is four weeks to the weigh in. It’s an important date because fighting is easy, making weight isn’t. I want to thank Granite Chin Promotions

“Four Worcester fighters (球, Gray, Irizarry and Owusu) on this card have never fought here. It’s huge having Kendrick and Khiary on this card and I’d like to thank CES Boxing for allowing them to fight here. I’m proud of Kendrick and Khiary and excited to have them fighting on this show. Chuck and Granite Chin are running this show, I’m only focused on my opponent.

“I’m excited to have an opponent who is coming to fight. He’s my third opponent, but that’s part of boxing. 我刻苦训练, passed my medicals, and it’s like I’m hungry again. I haven’t fought in years, but I’ve taken good care of my body. I didn’t visualize doing this at 45. I’ve also heard that, after August 17^日, there’s a possibility of a title for me by the end of this year.”

查Shearns (GCP联合发起人): “I’m honored to be involved in this show. Jose and I have been friends for years. Months ago, this all started with a text conversation (Chuck, Jose and A.J.). A week later, it started getting serious, and then we had Jose and A.J. fighting on this card. 不幸, A.J. isn’t fighting on this card, but the show will go on.”

吉米·伯奇菲尔德 (CES promoter): “What’s important is that Jose Antonio Rivera is fighting on this card and that’s why I’m allowing ‘Pepper’ (球) and Khiary to fight on this card. I’ve had a good relationship with Chuck and I’ve known Jose and A.J., who worked for me, for a long time. Nothing was happening in Worcester boxing for years, until Jose and A.J. started promoting here, but Worcester has always been a good fight town. All the fighters here will be proud of your victory. 这很漂亮! They’ve been around him and know what he’s accomplished in life. Jose has never abused his body, he’s taken good care of himself.

“We (CES拳击) had an event scheduled August 17^日 at Twin River (Lincoln, RI), but we moved from that date, and now everything is focused August 17^日 on Worcester. How could I not have my Worcester fighters on Jose Rivera’s comeback card? ‘Pepper’ and Khiary really wanted to fight on this card. These kids (fighters seated at head table) look up to Jose for what he’s done and in life and his comeback is a really big story. I know what ‘Pepper” and Khiary are going to do and I know what Jose is going to do because he’s a veteran. I believe this will be a sell out!”

肯德里克球, 小: “I want to thank my promoter, 吉米·伯奇菲尔德, for giving me the okay to fight on this card. I also want to thank Granite Chin Promotions and Rivera Promotions Entertainment. I’ve waited for this a long time. This fight will give me a chance to redeem myself and show why I’m the next great middleweight to come out of Worcester. I’m ready to get it on.”

Khiary灰色: “I want to thank Rivera Promotions Entertainment, CES Boxing and Granite Chin Promotions for giving me a chance to fight at home for the first time. This is a rematch for me. I stopped him in the first round, but there was some controversy. I know he’s coming to fight.”

Eslih Owusi: “I just graduated from high school and I wasn’t going to turn pro until after that. Fighting as a pro will be much more exciting than in the amateurs.”

何塞·安赫尔·奥尔蒂斯: “我很兴奋. I haven’t fought in two years. I was supposed to return before, but things didn’t work out. I never left boxing because I’m in the gym all the time working out or training other fighters. Jose and I are both in our forties. We’re going to show everybody that we can still fight.”

埃德温·罗萨: “I will try and put on the best show I can.”

约书亚奥尔塔: “I’m very happy about my first pro fight. I’ve dreamed of this day. Everybody is going to see an exciting card. I love this sport and always train hard.”

信息:

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MAKING HISTORY 3次回归, 2-处世界冠军 “高卢” 何塞·安东尼奥·里维拉 星期六, AUGUST 17, 2018 钯金, 伍斯特, 马萨诸塞州

八月 17 在伍斯特钯, 嘛 (L-R): A.J. 和何塞·安东尼奥·里维拉

伍斯特, 质量. (六月 20, 2018) — This past Father’s Day was considerably different for three-time, 2处世界冠军 “高卢” 何塞·安东尼奥·里维拉 and his pro-debuting son, A.J. 里维拉, because they will be “Making History,” presented by Rivera Promotions Entertainment and Granite Chin Promotions, 八月 17 at The Palladium.

Rivera and his son, 分别, are the promoter and matchmaker for Rivera Promotions Entertainment (RPE), which will co-promote “Making History” with Granite Chin Promotions (GCP).

“We are excited to be teaming up with GCP for this historic boxing event,” Jose commented. “We have had the pleasure of working with Chris (特拉耶蒂) and Chuck (Shearns) in the past. We are grateful that they are able to work with us again to make sure we put together a great boxing event.”

The Riveras will become the first world-champion father-son combination to fight on a pro show that is promoted by their company. More significantly, A.J. will become the first pro boxer to be born with Spina Bifida.

现在 45 岁, Rivera is making his second comeback, but this time it’s solely to fight on the same card as his son. Due to a variety of reasons, “高卢” retired from the ring in 2008, but he came back in 2011 for two fights, both victories, before hanging up his gloves again.

在 1997, 里维拉夺得国际拳击组织冠军 (IBO) 世界次中量级冠军, 停车 吉尔伯托·弗洛雷斯 在第二轮. 六年后, 他前往德国挑战不败的对手, 家乡的喜爱 米歇尔·特拉班特 (38-0) 为空置世界拳击协会 (WBA) 世界次中量级冠军, 里维拉赢得了 12 轮判定并赢得了腰带.

两个战斗后, in front of nearly 10,000 伍斯特的家乡球迷, Rivera won a 12-round unanimous decision over defending champion 亚历杭德罗·加西亚 (25-1) 争夺WBA世界超次中量级冠军.

“I am boxing at 45 years old because of this great opportunity that has arisen for my son and I,” Jose explained. “Boxing on the same card with my son is going to be exciting and, even more so, because we will be a part of history! I am fortunate to be healthy, 物理, and I am grateful to my Heavenly Father for not having any brain issues from my prior years of boxing. I’ve lost 20 英镑, 至今, and need to lose 12 more to make the 160-pound weight class.

“I am not sure how the night of the fight is going to go. I play it in my head over and over about how I would like it to go, 但最后, I’m confident we will both be ready for tough fights because of the hard work we’re both putting in at the gym.

“Fan response has been good, positive and supportive of what we both are doing and attempting to accomplish. To look back at the day I was told my son was going to be born with Spina Bifida, preparing myself mentally for the worse, 现在 25 years later here we are close to fulfilling his childhood dream. 太奇妙了! I feel blessed to share this moment with my son. I am also happy that we can do this in front of our family, 朋友 & fans in our City of Worcester, where my son was born, and I was raised since I moved there when I was 16.”

07月. 17, Rivera will face battle-tested middleweight 瑞安 “危险” 戴维斯 (24-19, 9 科斯), fighting out of East Saint Louis, 伊利诺伊, 在八轮的主要事件. Davis has been in with the iron, including six-time, 二科世界冠军 朱达, former International Boxing Federation (IBF) 世界冠军 ISHE史密斯, two-time world title challenger and 2004 美国奥运选手 Vances Martirosyan, 世界冠军挑战者 Jonathan Reid, reigning International Boxing Association (IBA) world junior middleweight champion 马克·德卢卡, plus other notables such as Rob Brant, 的Mikael Zewski, Carlos Bojorquez 和 Dominik Britsch.

Twenty-five-year-old A.J. will fight an opponent to be determined in a four-round welterweight match. He is a graduate of Johnson & Wales with a major in sports management, who has quickly become one of the most respected matchmakers in New England.

A.J. grew-up in a gym, watching his father train, and he also fought as an amateur boxer. “I’ve always wanted to fight as a pro and what better way than to make my pro debut on the same card headlined by my pops,” 里维拉说. “This is a one and done, I’m not going to box as a career and, hopefully I will leave the ring on August 17^日 and retire undefeated. I plan to make matchmaking a career. I can stay in the sport I’ve always loved and matchmake for our company and for other promoters.

“I was born with Spina Bifida. A layer of skin covered a hole in my back, preventing water from getting in, which would have damaged my system and left me paralyzed, unable to speak and with a shunt in my head to drain fluid. The doctors told my parents that, if I survived, I’d only live to be 19, in a wheelchair and a little autistic. I had surgery the next day and my pops kept hope. As I got older, I played basketball, 足球, baseball and boxed. I was inactive for seven years when I went away to school and started matchmaking.”

In addition to sacrificing to make weight, instead of having a Father’s Day cookout, he watched what he ate and, 当然, workout with his father in the gym to prepare for his pro debut.

“I wasn’t able to celebrate my 25^日 anniversary on June 2 或,” A.J. 额外. “I plan to celebrate my birthday and Father’s Day when I step out of the ring on August 17^日. 然后, I’ll go back to focusing on my craft and become a full-time matchmaker.”

Red-hot Richard “大力水手曼” 里维拉 (8-0, 7 科斯), 哈特福德外的战斗, CT, will be showcased in the eight-round co-featured event. Rivera is the reigning UBF All Americans light heavyweight and ABF International cruiserweight champion.

Schedule to fight on the undercard in separate bouts are Worcester junior middleweight Khiary灰色 (15-4, 11 科斯), promoted by CES Boxing, 丹伯里, CT 青少年次中量级 奥马尔 “野兽” 博罗伊岛, JR. (6-0, 2 科斯), 斯普林菲尔德, MA量级 何塞·安吉尔 “KO” 奥尔蒂斯 (4-13-1, 1 KO) 以及首次亮相的羽量级选手 约书亚奥尔塔, 南桥, MA量级 维尔弗雷 “该Sucaro” 异教徒 (4-0, 2 科斯), Worcester lightweight Francisco Irizarry (4-0, 2 科斯) and pro-debuting lightweight 埃斯利·奥乌苏.

奥图尔. 所有战斗和战士都受到变革.

门票, 售价 $75.00 (马戏团) 和 $45.00 (一般取), 有售，并提供购买的 www.ThePalladium.net 或钯票房 (只是一般入学), 或通过联系圣何塞维拉 (elgallojar@gmail.com/508.864.6954), AJ里维拉 (anthoneerivera@gmail.com/774.272.2269) 或任何战机.

门开处 6 P.M. AND, 第一回合 7 P.M. AND.

Event sponsors include Lundgren Hondo, 阿蒂. 玛丽亚中号. 里维拉，库托, USANA, Chieftain Liquors and ChrisFIT Xperience.

部分收益将捐赠给大新英格兰脊柱裂协会.

信息:

Facebook.com: /RiveraPromotionsEntertainment, /GraniteChin 促销

叽叽喳喳: @RiveraPromoEnt @joseriverachamp @KingRivera_, @Granite_Chin