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Jimmy Williams finally gets his “world title fight”
BOSTON (Março 2, 2021) – New Haven (CT) super welterweight boxer Jimmy “Quiet Storm” Williams will finally get what he calls “his world title fight” tonight against former world champion Yuri Foreman in an 8-round bout for the vacant American Boxing Federation USA super welterweight championship, at the Kentucky Center for African Americans in Louisville, Kentucky.
Capataz (35-3, 10 KOs), lutando fora de Brooklyn, captured the World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight World title in 2009, when he won a unanimous 12-round decision versus defending champion Daniel Santos (32-3-1).
“We sparred back when I was a kid when I trained at the Joe Grier Boxing Academy in Patterson, New Jersey,” Williams explained. “Joe was the one who gave me my nickname, ‘Quiet Storm.’ Yuri is a true world champion. I basically have come from nowhere to share the ring with a world champion. What we’re doing is what boxing is all about. It’s not about age; ele é 40 and I’m 34. Age doesn’t mean anything. I’m not a top dog, which is probably why they offered me the fight, but I’m a real fighter who will be in with a world champ. This is my world title fight! Ganhar, perder, ou desenhar, I’ll be fighting a world champion. I’m not scared of anybody. It’s not about money, it’s who I am, and I always step up to the challenge. This is going to be a great fight.”
Williams (16-5-2, 5 KOs) is proud to be one of the rare football players who has succeeded in boxing. He was a standout cornerback at Southern Connecticut State University and invited to several NFL tryout camps. He came close to making the cut with the then-Oakland Raiders.
“I’ve always been a boxer at heart,” Williams said, “so football was easy for me. It was great getting calls from NFL scouts. I walked away from football for boxing. I’m a former Division 2 college football player fighting a world champion. I knew when it was time to leave football, but I’m not ready to leave boxing yet. I don’t need to box. I’m educated, work in the community, and I’m a father. I’m blessed to be boxing and I’ll know when it’s time to hang up my gloves.”
Williams didn’t box until after his mother, Belinda, was murdered in 2008 and her case remains unsolved. He lost his father to cancer.
“This fight for Jimmy is by far the biggest of his career,” Williams managerRyan Roach (Fighter Locker) remarked. “It’s a must win to get him back on track. He knows what he has to do. He made a move to Veloz Boxing in Rhode Island and he’s a different fighter from what he was in his last two fights. Just being around ‘Boo Boo’ (campeão mundialDemetrious Andrade) and those guys there has Jimmy where he needs to be for this fight.”
Williams has been promoted byJimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports (CES) since he turned pro in 2013.
“We have a close relationship,” Burchfield commented. “I turned him pro, got him on national television a few times, and even attended his wedding. I’m very proud of him. He’s been tremendously loyal to CES as we have to him. This is a great opportunity. He didn’t hesitate a minute to take this fight. He has a new trainer, Brian Johnson, and Jimmy has been driving bad and forth from New Haven to Providence to train. I think he’s in the top shape of his life, because he knows the importance of this fight. He deserves to have this opportunity.
Something special about his fight tonight against Foreman for Williams, an African American, is fighting at this venue (Kentucky Center for African Americans) in the hometown of his hero,Muhammad Ali.
“I’m paying homage to all people who’ve lived my dream,” Williams remarked. “It is what I represent. We’ve lost a lot of people in the last year. Fighting in Louisville is big for me because it’s the home of ‘The Greatest,’ Muhammad Ali. I look at Ali more for his character and what he stood for than his boxing. He stood for something and lost the prime of his career because of it. I try to be like him in terms of who I am. He gave me the confidence be who I want to be in life. I’ve read every book about him. I refuse to give up like Ali. I’m a throwback fighter.”
Fighter Locker’s growing stable of gifted boxers includes California super flyweightRocco “So Cal Kid” Santomauro (20-1, 6 KOs), Troy, NY ABF American West super lightweightRay Jay “The Destroyer” Bermudez(12-0, 9 KOs), super-médios“The Amazing” Shawn McCalman(6-0, 4 KOs), U.S. Army super bantamweightDaniel Bailey, Jr. (2-0, 1 KO), leveLeonel de los Santos (2-0, 2 KOs), um 2-time Dominican Republic Olympian, pro-debuting Boston featherweightTroy Anderson, Jr., pro-debuting Dominican Republic welterweightJuan Solano, and Salt Lake City, Utah brothers, super leveIgnacio Chairez (7-0-1, 4 KOs) and lightweightGabriel Chairez (3-0, 2 KOs).
INFORMAÇÕES:
WEBSITE: fighterlocker.com, punch4parkinsons.com
FACEBOOK: /fighterlocker
TWITTER: @RoachRyan
INSTAGRAM: @RyanRoach82
ABOUT FIGHTER LOCKER: Estabelecida em 2019, Fighter Locker is a comprehensive sports agency that manages professional boxers. Fighter Locker also helps to brand boxers by finding their voice with a 100-percent customized service. Fighter Locker does not really believe in working models. It believes in partnership optimization models in motion.
Fighter Locker uses four creative steps because it believes in “the foundation is everything”: 1. wisely conceived, 2. creatively restrained, 3. Proudly judged, 4. sharply targeted.
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Promover mais desafiador do que lutar por Miguel Cotto
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SÃO JOÃO, Puerto Rico (Maio 31, 2018) – Pugilista futuro do corredor da fama Miguel Cotto acredita que, para ele, promover é ainda mais desafiador do que lutar.
A lenda viva se aposentou em dezembro passado com uma incrível 41-6 (33 KOs) registro profissional, em que ele se tornou o único porto-riquenho a conquistar títulos mundiais em quatro classes de pesos diferentes, welterweight leve através do middleweight.
Cotto foi 20-6 (16 KOs) em lutas pelo título mundial, 16-6 (12 KOs) versus campeões mundiais atuais ou passados durante sua ilustre carreira profissional de 17 anos, incluindo vitórias contra Cesar Bazan, Carlos Maussa,Lovemore N'dou, Randall Bailey,DeMarcus Corley, Ricardo Torres,Paulie Malignaggi, Carlos Quintana,Zab Judah, Shane Mosley, Joshua Clottey, Yuri Foreman, Ricardo Mayorga, Antonio Margarito, Sergio Martinez e Daniel Geale.
“Estamos no negócio de promoção há mais de 13 anos, combinando ambos os papéis (lutador e promotor),” Disse Cotto. “Agora, somos capazes de dar mais atenção aos nossos lutadores em termos de treinamento.
“A promoção é mais complexa porque há desafios em todas as facetas de um evento. Como um lutador, você se concentra apenas na luta, nem todos os detalhes envolvidos na promoção de um evento de sucesso.”
A Cotto Promotions está apresentando A batalha: Acosta vs. Buitrago, junto com a H2 Entertainment, em associação com a DIRECTV Porto Rico, Junho 16th em pay-per-view, ao vivo no Coliseo de Puerto Rico Center em Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
Integrado Sports Media vai distribuir o A batalha: Acosta vs. Buitrago cartão nos Estados Unidos em cabo, por satélite e pay-per-view digitais através na demanda, Vubiquity, DIRECTV, PRATO e transmissão ao vivo em todo o mundo (excluindo Porto Rico) no FITE.TV aplicativo e site (www.fite.tv), a partir de 9 p.m. E / 6 p.m. PT, por um preço de varejo sugerido de apenas $34.95.
Organização Mundial de Boxe Campeão do Mundo de Flyweight Leve Tito Acosta 17-1, 17 KOs) fará sua primeira defesa do título contra quatro vezes desafiador do título mundial Carlos “Chocorroncito” Buitrago (30-3-1, 17 KOs), da Nicarágua, no evento de 12 ronda principal.
“Este cartão pay-per-view é uma oportunidade muito importante para mostrar um ótimo evento,” Cotto adicionou, “bem como um cenário perfeito para Acosta mostrar ao mundo quem ele é campeão mundial.
“É um prazer para mim retribuir ao boxe o que o boxe me deu. Vendo a nossa marca crescer e o desenvolvimento do lutador, deixe-nos saber que estamos fazendo as coisas da maneira certa. Nosso objetivo é continuar desenvolvendo os melhores talentos em Porto Rico e construindo suas marcas e legados.”
Acosta, 27 anos, está em uma missão para se tornar um ícone do boxe porto-riquenho como Cotto, Titus Trinidad, Wilfredo Gomez, Hector Camacho, Wilfredo Benitez e tantos outros grandes desta ilha fértil.
O sucesso de Acosta traz boas lembranças para Cotto, quando ele estava em uma situação semelhante como um jovem campeão mundial. “Ele traz de volta memórias para mim e prova que o trabalho duro compensa,” Cotto concluído. “Tito está vivendo o sonho que todo boxeador tem quando decide boxe como meio de vida. Agora é o capítulo mais desafiador para ele expandir seu reinado e construir seu legado.”
Junho adicional 16th Lutas PPV serão anunciadas em breve. Todas as lutas e os lutadores estão sujeitos a alteração.
INFORMAÇÕES:
www.promocionesmiguelcotto, www.integratedsportsnet.com, www.directvpr.com, www.fite.tv
Chilro: @CottoPromotions, @Directvpr, @IntegratedPPV, @FiteTV
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