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نیویورک, N.Y.. (اکتبر 30, 2017)–پیروزی ورزشی & Entertainment is pleased to announce the signing of former IBF World Junior Lightweight Champion Jose Pedraza to a multi-year managerial contract.
Pedraza of Cidra, پورتوریکو دارای سابقه 22-1 با 12 knockouts به. Pedraza says, “I am very happy to sign with Victory Sports and look forward to the next chapter of my career. They represent a number of up and coming fighters and also work with elite fighters like Badou Jack so I feel that Victory is the right team to lead me back to a world championship.” در 28 ساله, Pedraza is a six-year professional and one of the most highly decorated amateurs to come out of Puerto Rico. An Olympian in 2008, Pedraza also won medals in numerous international competitions including silver in the 2009 World Amateur Championships in Milan and gold at the 2010 بازی های آمریکای مرکزی و کارائیب. پس از روشن طرفدار در 2011, Pedraza won his first 19 fights before capturing the IBF Junior Lightweight Championship in only his 20th fight, capturing the belt with a 12-round unanimous decision over Andrey Klimov. After defending his belt twice, Pedraza lost his belt earlier this year in an upset to Gervonta Davis, and is now looking to rebound. “My lack of activity and struggling to make weight at 130lbs definitely affected my performance in my last fight,” says Pedraza, “but I am working hard and looking forward to coming back soon. I think the Lightweight division is where I will make my mark and am excited to get back in the ring.” President of Victory Sports Rick Torres feels that Pedraza is ready to make a statement at Lightweight, “Jose Pedraza is bar none the best fighter in Puerto Rico and we are extremely proud to welcome him to the Victory Sports family. We feel that Jose can be a force at Lightweight. There are a number of attractive fights in the division, from Jorge Linares to Mickey Garcia, all of which would make great fights for boxing fans.” “Jose is a tremendous fighter who, at twenty-eight, is still in his physical prime,” explained Victory Sports COO Mike Leanardi. “We are looking to get him back in the ring as soon as possible. سپس, after a tune-up fight or two, there is no reason Jose won’t be ready to take on the best in the world,” Leanardi continued. Pedraza joins Victory’s growing stable of fighters including undefeated world ranked contenders Sonny Fredrickson and Tyler McCreary. Founded by noted sports attorney Rick Torres and boxing trainer Mike Leanardi, پیروزی ورزشی & Entertainment یک شرکت مدیریت ورزشکار است که دارای دفاتر در نیویورک و لاس وگاس است. |
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SANDERS ON LEMKE REMATCH: “I’M GOING TO STEAL HIS SOUL AND I’M GOING TO BREAK HIS WILL”
آزادی فوری: لوئیزتون، یوتا, مین (آوریل 27, 2017) – هرگز یکی به عقب از یک چالش, or an opportunity to call out the competition, “The” Ryan Sanders is irked by the tone of the scuttlebutt since his first fight with Jon Lemke last November.
بله, the skirmish stopped during the third round, due to a deep cut on Lemke’s head. But with Sanders leading comfortably, 20-18, در هر سه کارت, he was declared the winner.
It all fell in line with the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, and it surely reflected Sanders’ conviction that he was well in command of the bout and on his way to victory, بدون در نظر گرفتن. Since that night, the روز شنبه before Thanksgiving, اما, سندرز, 29, says that Lemke and others in his camp have been a tad too outspoken about their belief that it was somehow a tainted victory.
In a recent interview with Jason Floyd on “The MMA Report Podcast,” Sanders held nothing back when queried about his motivation to dole out another beating when the former training partners meet this Saturday, آوریل 29 in a rematch at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston.
این بار, it’s the tournament final for the vacant lightweight title at “NEF 28: Invincible.”
“I was a little upset afterwards that (لمکه) said he thought it should have been a no-contest,"سندرز گفت. “What Jon won’t talk about or say is that right before I got that takedown, he quit. He quit in my arms.”
سندرز (13-8) clarified that comment, adding that while Lemke (6-7) didn’t say the word explicitly, his vast experience in the cage underscored his belief that the end was nigh.
“A fighter knows when someone is about to give up, and Jon was about to give up,"او گفت. “He wasn’t fighting that takedown in my arms. He was just dead weight in my arms, so it’s a bit frustrating that he would say that.”
It didn’t take long for the stars to align and serve up the second helping that both fighters’ fan bases crave. With a shot at the strap in the offing, both men made short work of their 155-pound tournament semifinal opponents in February.
Sanders landed a vicious kick to the jaw of John Ortolani that ended their confrontation in a mere 15 ثانیه. Lemke was just as impressive, needing only a minute longer to dispatch Jesse “the Viking” Erickson.
Typically it’s the defeated fighter in this scenario who covets the chance at vindication, but Sanders sounds like the one with an axe to grind after hearing some of the public perception about his previous win.
“I’m happy that we get a rematch and to be able to show everyone that the first time it wasn’t a fluke and to have my hand raised again,” Sanders, که است 6-1 in his past seven fights, گفت:. “I’m unstoppable right now. I’m surrounded with the best people. I’ve got great teammates, great coaches and an amazing wife … Any guy who fights me, they are (screwed)."
Asked if he is bent on earning a submission to achieve a measure of unfinished business, Sanders quickly declared that any form of victory will suffice.
“Not necessarily to get a stoppage victory, but I’m going to show him. It will be five months since we fought, and I’ve been in the gym every day, and I’m going to show him that he’s not on my level,"سندرز گفت. “Eventually the victory will come whether it’s a submission, a TKO, a knockout. Jon does have a lot of heart, but I’m going to be stealing it from him. I’m going to steal his soul and I’m going to break his will.
“I’m a grappler, so I do prefer a nice submission victory," او ادامه داد. “But whatever he gives me I’ll take, and I’m going to go in there and take it. I’m going to take that belt home. That is my belt, and I’ve worked too hard to let anyone else take it from me.”
The rivalry between Sanders and Lemke is a natural one. They were former stablemates at Team Irish before Sanders switched to rival Young’s MMA.
Sanders said he didn’t earn enough takedowns for his liking in the previous encounter, but he believes the scorecards were an accurate reflection of how he dominated the fight.
“I knew he was a tough dude. He could take a punch. He could take a kick,"سندرز گفت. “I feel like I was getting the best of it.”
A second bout with Lemke fits Sanders’ profile as a fighter willing to take on anyone, هر کجا, هروقت.
سندرز, who has been matched in his career with the likes of Marcus Davis, Gil de Freitas, Levan Makashvili, Luis Felix and Derrick Kennington, has won his last five in a row on Maine soil.
He dropped back-to-back decisions to de Freitas in his two previous bids for an NEF title and naturally predicts that he won’t let the third chance at gold slip away.
“I know with the training I’m putting in that I’m destined for greatness,"سندرز گفت. “My work has shown that, and my future fights will show that. I know I’m there to fight the best. Look at the guys I’ve fought. They’re UFC or Bellator vets, or they’re top-five fighters in the region.
"(The fans are) going to witness a great fight, a great performance by Ryan Sanders,” او نتیجه گرفت. “They may say, ‘This guy’s being (a jerk). He’s real cocky.’ It’s not that I’m cocky. I’m fully confident in my training and in my training partners and in my coaches and in myself that I am ready to fight anybody in the region and beat anybody in the region.”
The opening bell for “NEF 28: Invincible” on آوریل 29 برای تنظیم 7 p.m. بلیط در شروع $25 و در دسترس در می www.TheColisee.com و یا با تماس با دفتر جعبه Colisee در 207.783.2009, افزونه 525.
LEMKE ON LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE SHOT: “I JUST THINK ABOUT GETTING THAT BELT AND DEFENDING THAT BELT”
آزادی فوری: لوئیزتون، یوتا, مین (آوریل 27, 2017) – Not everybody in life gets blessed with a shot at redemption. Jonathan Lemke will bask in that opportunity on multiple fronts when he battles “The” Ryan Sanders for the vacant NEF lightweight title this روز شنبه, آوریل 29 at Androscoggin Bank Colisee as part of “NEF 28: Invincible.”
It’s the second shot at the NEF strap for Lemke, who lost a split decision to Bruce “Pretty Boy” Boyington in February 2016 at “NEF 21: THE IMMORTALS.” Lemke also looks forward to the rematch with Sanders after their fight in November was abbreviated due to a gash on Lemke’s head.
“Definitely after the way the last one ended, I still feel like I have a little unfinished business, a little chip on my shoulder,” Lemke said recently in an interview on “The Maine Event” podcast with Ryan Jarrell and Bryan Stackpole. “I definitely want to go out there and take care of business this time.”
سندرز (13-8) won a unanimous decision when the verdict went to the scorecards by virtue of the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts.
Like his opponent and former stablemate, لمکه (6-7) has carved out a reputation as a fighter who will take on all comers. The first bout with Sanders extended his winless streak to four fights, but the quality of opposition – Devin Powell, Josh LaBerge and Boyington preceded Sanders – are good for more than an asterisk.
He snapped that run in short order with a first-round TKO of Jesse “The Viking” Erickson in February’s tournament semifinals.
"من خیلی هیجان زده هستم, very grateful,لمکه گفت. “This is the culmination of a lot of years, a lot of hard work, to be at this point again and see some of that pay off.”
Lemke doesn’t believe that he needs the title to validate his years under the NEF umbrella. On the flip side, اما, it is a line on the personal checklist on which he is hungry to leave his mark.
“It would mean a lot,” he acknowledged. “It wouldn’t define me either way, but at the same time certainly one of the goals I set out to achieve when I first started this sport was to take care of business on the regional end and to be a regional champion.”
Previous champions Powell, Boyington and Dez Green made the lightweight belt NEF’s most coveted honor by using it as a springboard to opportunities on a national scale.
لمکه, who has enjoyed the spotlight as part of both a Bellator card and Dana White’s “Lookin’ for a Fight” UFC audition, denied that he is looking ahead to greener pastures.
“I haven’t given it a lot of thought about where it would take me,"او گفت. “I just think about getting that belt and defending that belt. It’s always one fight at a time.”
Between their days training together with Team Irish (Sanders now fights out of Young’s MMA) and their previous fight, Lemke and Sanders know one another as well as any NEF title fight opponents in history.
While Lemke allows for the possibility that both men will dip into their bag of tricks, he said fans shouldn’t expect too many surprises.
“I think stylistically it will be a little bit different. Game plan wise it will be a little bit different. At the start you might see some different wrinkles from both,” Lemke said “But at the end of the day we are both familiar with each other, so it will be a similar type fight.”
He also sees the confrontation living up to every ounce of its billing.
“One of the statements from the first card was that I believe this fight could headline any card, any regional or national promotion, and I still believe that,لمکه گفت. “It’s a fight the fans want to see.”
And it’s a fight he naturally believes he will win the second time around.
“I’m healthy as can be. Had a good, tough camp, and I’m looking forward to getting out there and performing my business,لمکه گفت. “I believe in my overall skill set and believe that overall skill set will lead to the victory.”
The opening bell for “NEF 28: Invincible” on آوریل 29 برای تنظیم 7 p.m. بلیط در شروع $25 و در دسترس در می www.TheColisee.com و یا با تماس با دفتر جعبه Colisee در 207.783.2009, افزونه 525.
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