FORMER WORLD CHAMPION TO TRAIN PROSPECT JUSTIN DELOACH
IN FOURTH FIGHT ADDED TO සිකුරාදා, දස මස 25,
SHOBOX: නව පරපුරේ විකාශය
“I’m scared all over again, like this is my first fight.” – Paul Williams
Super Welterweight DeLoach Takes on Undefeated Local Favorite Dillon Cook;
Promising Meets Aaron Herrera in Main Event;
මේ සඟරාව ජීවත්® දී 10:30 ප.ව.. සහ/පී.ටී.
නිව්යෝක් (මාර්තු 15, 2016) – Former two-time world champion පෝල් විලියම්ස්, who’s pro career came to a sudden and tragic end when he was paralyzed from the waist down after a motorcycle accident in May 2012, is back in boxing as a trainer.
The popular Williams will work the corner of once-beaten ජස්ටින් DeLoach (13-1, 7 Kos) when DeLoach faces undefeated super welterweight and local favorite ඩිලන් කුක් (16-0, 6 Kos) in the opening eight-round bout of what is now a ShoBox: නව පරපුරේ මත quadrupleheader සිකුරාදා, මාර්තු 25, ජීවත් වෙන්නප්රදර්ශණ කාලය (10:30 ප.ව.. සහ/පී.ටී., බටහිර වෙරළ මත ප්රමාද) සිට මී ධාවනය කැසිනෝ දී මයාමි, Okla.
DeLoach is the first boxer to be trained by Williams, the former 154-pound southpaw who has been confined to a wheelchair since the accident.
“I guess I was being selfish at first,” Williams said. “I didn’t want to deal with the fight game. I wanted to be the one fighting. But that changed.”
Williams was reluctant to train fighters for a long time. වියGeorge Peterson, who managed and trained Williams from the time the boxer was a skinny kid with little amateur experience until his career ended, that helped persuade “The Punisher” to return to the ring. Williams trains his pupil at a private gym in his hometown of Aiken, S.C.
“You know me, I really didn’t want to do this,’’ Williams said. “But finally after three or four years of George practically begging me to try and do it, this opportunity came along and I decided to give it a shot.
“Everything is about timing. I started thinking about it, George kept asking me and messing with me about it, one thing led to another, and I finally said I’d take a stab at it.
විලියම්ස්, who is enjoying his new job description, admits there are some pre-fight jitters.
“I’m scared all over again, like this is my first fight. දැන්, I have to think about everything that Mr. Pete was thinking about when I was fighting. I have to try and teach Justin what I knew how to do.
“George and I accomplished a lot. He made me a world champion; before that, no one knew who he or I was. We were just a couple of guys from Aiken, S.C. We gave fans fights to remember.
“I was the fighter the press labeled as ‘Most feared in boxing.’ But that’s over for me now. I’m jumping into a whole new thing. It’s been an adjustment but I’m glad I’m doing it.’’
In his role as a trainer, Williams’ mindset has changed drastically from his fighting days. “Look, I always feel good,'' ඔහු කිව්වා. “What’s happened has happened. ඉට් ඊස් වට් ඉට් ඊස්. This is my first time stepping back into the world. මම බොක්සිං ආදරෙයි.
“What I don’t want to see is a fighter getting hurt. This is a hard sport. I know when I was in there I was always going for broke. But I want Justin, all fighters actually, to come out of the ring the same way they came in. දිනුවා හෝ පැරදුනා හෝ, I don’t want to see anybody get hurt.’’
On DeLoach, විලියම්ස් පවසයි, “He’s a good fighter and now he’s in the spotlight. I want to do my best in the training world to get him at his peak. I hope he does his best. I’d love to one-up George with Justin.’’
Becoming the best takes strenuous work on a daily basis, and Williams was no stranger to putting in the hours.
“I never took a shortcut,'' ඔහු කිව්වා. “You take shortcuts, you know what’ll happen. I took the long road home when I was fighting and fans, සටන්කරුවන්, everybody knew what to expect when I stepped in the ring.
“Justin isn’t like this, but one thing I know is that fighters think they’re slick. හොඳයි, you can’t pull anything over me. මා එහි හිටියා, seen it all.’’
හා, සැමවිට මෙන්, he’ll have George Peterson by his side.
“I’m just helping Paul,’’ said Peterson, who will serve as Williams’ assistant trainer. “So far, he’s doing great.”
It will be the ShoBox හා 2016 පන්දු යවන්නන් — and toughest fight to date — for both DeLoach and Cook.
DeLoach was a top amateur, competing in the USA Boxing National Championships in 2012. He won a National Silver Golden Gloves title when he was 13.
The 22-year-old DeLoach, of Augusta, Ga., has won three in a row since suffering his lone loss to Cesar Villa පෙබරවාරි මත. 6, 2015. That was before he started training with Williams.
“This has been a total blessing, and I say that every day,” DeLoach said. “Thank God. He’s the one who brought the two of us together, that’s the main thing. Paul loves it, just to be back. I think he was scared at first, his reputation was at stake and so was mine.
“But he’s been so helpful – just in the mental side of things. I was already a good boxer but he’s taken me to another level mentally. He’s been pushing me, criticizing me, giving me instructions and picking my brain.”
DeLoach and Williams grew up just 30 minutes down the road from each other.
“Me and Paul, we’ve known each other our whole lives,’’ DeLoach said. “I’m from Augusta, Ga., and he was right across in Aiken. We knew each other when I was coming up as an amateur. He came to my last pro fight that was in San Antonio. When I saw him, I got so excited. We started to talk and I said something like, 'ඒයි, පෝල්, wouldn’t it be cool if we got together?'
“Once I came home, we started working together and he’s been training me since. I think we’re going on about three months now. It’s an unbelievable feeling to be able to work with one of my favorite fighters.”
ඔහුගේ අවසන්, පොල්පිතිගම දී, DeLoach won a shutout four-round decision overSantos Benavides පසුගිය දෙසැම්බර්. 12. DeLoach, a pro since March 2013, fought six times that year and four times each in 2014 හා 2015.
“I’m really looking forward to fighting for the first time for him,” DeLoach said. “I’ve gone crazy waiting for my break and an opportunity like this to fight on SHOWTIME. I know it’s not easy fighting in your opponent’s backyard, but with Paul, George Peterson and me and my skills, we are confident it will be a good fight.’’
කුක්, 25, is from Seneca, Mo., which is located about 20 minutes from Buffalo Run Casino where he has fought six times. A top amateur, he won six Golden Gloves titles, a Junior Golden Gloves National title, a Heartland title and four regional Silver Gloves titles. He is popular at Buffalo Run and will be making his premium network television debut against easily his most dangerous assignment as a pro. Cook’s brother, ජෙසී, a welterweight with a record of 15-1-1, will box on the non-televised portion of the event.
Dillon Cook turned pro in August 2012, fought twice that year, seven times in 2013, four times in 2014 and three times last year. Five of his last seven took place at Buffalo Run, including two out of three in 2015. He’s coming off a lopsided eight-round decision overRahman Yusubov පසුගිය නොවැම්බර්. 14.
“I couldn’t be more excited about making my ShoBox මංගල, right at home, at the Buffalo Run Casino,” Cook said. “This is a huge opportunity for me, and I plan on putting on a spectacular showing, for all my fans there that night and everyone watching on TV.”
තුළ ShoBox ප්රධාන උත්සවය, unbeaten super lightweight knockout artist and emerging rising star, රෙජිස් "Rougarou" වැඩසටහන් (16-0, 13 Kos), Houston by way of New Orleans, will meet experienced ආරොන් "මෙම දායාදය" Herrera (29-4-1, 18 Kos), of Valladolid, මෙක්සිකෝ, in a 10-round match.
Four undefeated fighters will clash in the two other eight-rounders on the telecast: දෘඪ-අභිප්රාය අයිවන් "මෘගයා" Baranchyk (9-0, 8 Kos), බෘක්ලින් පිළිබඳ, ප්ලේන්ස් හි, මුහුණු Nicholas “King Beamen” Givhan(16-0-1, 10 Kos), Kalamazoo ක, මිචිගන්., in a super lightweight scrap and Ukrainian අයිවන් "මෙම Volk" Golub (10-0, 8 Kos, 5-0 බොක්සිං තරගාවලිය තුළ), බෘක්ලින් පිළිබඳ, ප්ලේන්ස් හි, හමුවෙයි මාලන් Aguas (9-0, 6 Kos), Quito ක, ඉක්වදෝරය, එය welterweight තරගය.
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බැරී Tompkins මෙම කියනු ඇත ShoBox ringside සිට පියවර සමගස්ටීව් Farhood හා හිටපු ලෝක ශූරයා රාවුල් මාකේස් විශේෂඥ විශ්ලේෂකයෝ ලෙස සේවය. විධායක නිෂ්පාදකයා වන ගෝර්ඩන් ශාලාවේ සමගපොහොසත් Gaughan නිෂ්පාදනය හා රික් පිලිප්ස් අධ්යක්ෂණය.
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ගැන ShoBox: නව පරපුරේ
ජූලි මාසයේ දී එහි ආරම්භයේ සිට 2001, අනතුරින් බරපතල අතිසාර්ථක සඟරාව බොක්සිං තරගාවලිය, ShoBox: නව පරපුරේ දැඩි ගැලපෙන තරුණ දක්ෂතා අංග ඇත. මෙම ShoBox දර්ශනය ආකර්ෂණීය televise කිරීමයි, සමූහයා-ප්රසන්න හා තරඟකාරී තරග ලෝක ශීර්ෂය සඳහා සටන් කිරීමට තීරණය කැමති අපේක්ෂාවන් සඳහා ආෙව්ශ්ය බිම ලබා ඇති අතර. මෙම වර්ධනය වන ලැයිස්තුව සමහර 65 මත පෙනී සිටි සටන්කරුවන්ShoBox හා ඇතුළත් ලෝක ශූරතා දිනා ගැනීමට පෙරට: ඇන්ඩෘ වෝඩ්, Deontay විල්ඩර්, Erislandy ලාරා, Shawn පෝටර්, ගැරී රසල් කනිෂ්ඨ, Lamont පීටර්සන්, Guillermo Rigondeaux, ඕමාර් Figueroa, Nonito Donaire, ඩෙවෝන් ඇලෙක්සැන්ඩර්, කාල් Froch, රොබට් Guerrero, තිමෝති බ්රැඩ්ලි, ජෙසී වර්ගාස්, ජුවාන් මැනුවෙල් ලෝපෙස්, චැඩ් ඩෝසන්, Paulie Malignaggi, රිකී හැටන්, කෙලී Pavlik, පෝල් විලියම්ස් හා තවත්.
