HOMECOMING Featuring the return of 3-time, 2-處世界冠軍 “高盧” JOSE ANTONIO RIVERA FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2018 The Palladium, 伍斯特, 馬薩諸塞州

Father-son Jose Antonio & A.J. 里維拉 “Making History” World champion’s return & son’s pro debut 八月 17 在伍斯特鈀, 嘛 (L-R) 埃德溫·羅薩, Josh Orta, Eslih奧烏蘇, 肯德里克·鮑爾, 小, 吉米·伯奇菲爾德, Khiary Gray, 何塞·安東尼奧·里維拉, A.J. 里維拉, 查Shearns, Jose Angel Ortiz and Wilfredo Pagan

伍斯特, 質量. (七月 19, 2018) – 花崗岩下巴促銷 (GCP) 里維拉促銷娛樂 (RPE) hosted a press conference yesterday at The Ballot Box in Worcester, 馬薩諸塞州, 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處世界冠軍 “高盧” 何塞·安東尼奧·里維拉 (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. 里維拉, 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, “歸國”, 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·特萊蒂, “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. 里維拉解釋. “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).”

現在 45 歲, Rivera has already lost more than 30 英鎊, and he is within eight of his contracted weight for his eight-round fight against Ruben “Modern Day Warrior” Galvan (27-26-4, 10 科斯).

在 1997, Rivera captured the International Boxing Organization (IBO) World welterweight title, 停車 Gilberto Flores in the second round. Six years later, he traveled to Germany to take on undefeated, 家鄉的喜愛 Michel Trabant (38-0) 為空置世界拳擊協會 (WBA) World Welterweight Championship, in which Rivera won a 12-round decision and the belt.

兩個戰鬥後, in front of nearly 10,000 hometown fans in Worcester, Rivera won a 12-round unanimous decision in 2006 over defending champion 亞歷杭德羅·加西亞 (25-1) for the WBA World super welterweight title.

中量級 肯德里克·鮑爾, JR. (9-1-2, 6 科斯) and junior middleweight Khiary Gray (15-4, 11 科斯), both promoted by CES Boxing, will be making their pro debuts at home in Worcester. Ball faces an opponent to be determined in the six-round co-featured event, while Gray (15-4, 11 科斯) 會見 安東尼奧·費爾南德斯查韋斯 (9-33, 4 科斯), of Brockton, 嘛, also in a six rounder.

Undefeated light heavyweight prospect 理查德 “大力水手曼” 里維拉 (8-0, 7 科斯), fighting out of Hartford, 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 “被選中的人” 沙拉德·科利爾 (1-0, 1 KO), who takes on his Mexican opponent, 伊曼紐爾 “Pollo” Valadez (5-4, 4 科斯), in a four-round match.

Also scheduled to fight on the undercard in four-round bouts are Springfield, MA量級 何塞·安赫爾 “KO” Ortiz Jose Angel “KO” 奧爾蒂斯 (4-13-1, 1 KO) VS. 塞斯·巴斯勒 (0-8) and pro-debuting featherweight Joshua Orta VS. Worcester’s 埃德溫·羅薩 (1-7-1, 1 KO), 南橋, MA量級 維爾弗雷 “該Sucaro” 異教徒 (4-0, 2 科斯) VS. TBA, Worcester lightweight Francisco Irizarry (4-0, 2 科斯) VS. TBA, Worcester’s pro-debuting lightweight Eslih奧烏蘇.VS. 墨西哥人 Engelberto “Guarura” 巴倫蘇埃拉 (11-14 (3 科斯).

所有戰鬥和戰士都受到變革.

門票, 售價 $75.00 (馬戲團) 和 $45.00 (一般取), 有售，並提供購買的 www.ThePalladium.net 或鈀票房 (只是一般入學), 或通過聯繫聖何塞維拉 (elgallojar@gmail.com/508.864.6954), AJ里維拉 (anthoneerivera@gmail.com/774.272.2269) 或任何戰機.

門開處 6 P.M. AND, 第一回合 7 P.M. AND.

事件贊助商包括倫德格倫本田, Elm Wealth Group, 阿蒂. 瑪麗亞中號. 里維拉，庫托, Championsofhealth@USANA.com, 酋長白酒, Centro Las America, Baystate Savings Bank, Pamela Laporte Realty, Worcester Vocero, ChrisFIT Xperience and Grille 57 (hosting the official weigh in and after party).

A portion of the proceeds will go to Spina Bifida Association of Greater New England.

新聞發布會行情

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. 我刻苦訓練, 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 co-promoter): “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·伯奇菲爾德 (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. 這很漂亮! 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拳擊) 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·鮑爾, 小: “I want to thank my promoter, 吉米·伯奇菲爾德, 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 Gray: “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.”

Jose Angel Ortiz: “我很興奮. 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.”

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

Joshua Orta: “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 Featuring the return of 3-time, 2-處世界冠軍 “高盧” JOSE ANTONIO RIVERA 星期六, AUGUST 17, 2018 The Palladium, 伍斯特, 馬薩諸塞州

八月 17 在伍斯特鈀, 嘛 (L-R): A.J. and Jose Antonio Rivera

伍斯特, 質量. (六月 20, 2018) — This past Father’s Day was considerably different for three-time, 2處世界冠軍 “高盧” 何塞·安東尼奧·里維拉 and his pro-debuting son, A.J. 里維拉, 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, 分別, 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 (Traietti) 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.

現在 45 歲, 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, “高盧” 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, Rivera captured the International Boxing Organization (IBO) World welterweight title, 停車 Gilberto Flores in the second round. Six years later, he traveled to Germany to take on undefeated, 家鄉的喜愛 Michel Trabant (38-0) 為空置世界拳擊協會 (WBA) World Welterweight Championship, in which Rivera won a 12-round decision and the belt.

兩個戰鬥後, in front of nearly 10,000 hometown fans in Worcester, Rivera won a 12-round unanimous decision over defending champion 亞歷杭德羅·加西亞 (25-1) for the WBA World super welterweight title.

“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 英鎊, so far, 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, 但最後, 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, 現在 25 years later here we are close to fulfilling his childhood dream. It’s amazing! 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 “危險的” 戴維斯 (24-19, 9 科斯), fighting out of East Saint Louis, 伊利諾伊, 在八輪的主要事件. Davis has been in with the iron, including six-time, 二科世界冠軍 朱達, former International Boxing Federation (IBF) 世界冠軍 ISHE史密斯, two-time world title challenger and 2004 US Olympian Vances Martirosyan, 世界冠軍挑戰者 Jonathan Reid, reigning International Boxing Association (IBA) world junior middleweight champion 馬克·德盧卡, plus other notables such as 羅布布蘭特, 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,” 里維拉說. “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, 當然, 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. 額外. “I plan to celebrate my birthday and Father’s Day when I step out of the ring on August 17^日. 然後, I’ll go back to focusing on my craft and become a full-time matchmaker.”

Red-hot Richard “大力水手曼” 里維拉 (8-0, 7 科斯), fighting out of Hartford, 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 Gray (15-4, 11 科斯), promoted by CES Boxing, 丹伯里, CT初中量級 奧馬爾 “野獸” 博羅伊島, JR. (6-0, 2 科斯), 斯普林菲爾德, MA量級 何塞·安赫爾 “KO” 奧爾蒂斯 (4-13-1, 1 KO) and pro-debuting featherweight Joshua Orta, 南橋, MA量級 維爾弗雷 “該Sucaro” 異教徒 (4-0, 2 科斯), Worcester lightweight Francisco Irizarry (4-0, 2 科斯) and pro-debuting lightweight Eslih奧烏蘇.

Opponents will soon be announced. 所有戰鬥和戰士都受到變革.

門票, 售價 $75.00 (馬戲團) 和 $45.00 (一般取), 有售，並提供購買的 www.ThePalladium.net 或鈀票房 (只是一般入學), 或通過聯繫聖何塞維拉 (elgallojar@gmail.com/508.864.6954), AJ里維拉 (anthoneerivera@gmail.com/774.272.2269) 或任何戰機.

門開處 6 P.M. AND, 第一回合 7 P.M. AND.

Event sponsors include Lundgren Hondo, 阿蒂. 瑪麗亞中號. 里維拉，庫托, USANA, Chieftain Liquors and ChrisFIT Xperience.

A portion of the proceeds will go to Spina Bifida Association of Greater New England.

信息:

Facebook.com: /RiveraPromotionsEntertainment, /GraniteChin Promotions

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