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GCP Signs South African Featherweight Slugger Lusanda Komanisi

Greg Cohen Promotions is happy to announce the signing of power-punching IBO World Featherweight Champion Lusanda Komanisi.
Known as “Mexican” for his aggressive fighting style, Komanisi (19-4, 17 Kos), from Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, South Africa, has successfully defended his IBO title twice since winning it via impressive fifth-round knockout over Macbute Sinyabi in July 2014.
Sem áhugamaður Boxer, Komanisi was a 2006 Gold Medalist in the South African games, og 2007 Gold Medalist in the South African Championships at bantamweight. He trains at the All Winners Boxing Club in East London, South Africa, with former IBF World Super Flyweight Champion ZolaniLast BornTete.
I want to be a unified world champion and fight the best featherweights in the division,” said Komanisi. “This signing will help my family live a better life. My country last saw and had a WBC green belt more than 15 years ago from Sugar Boy Malinga and Dingaan Thobela and now I want to bring it back! As a Featherweight I believe I am the next big thing in the sport of boxing and I am here to stay! Unifying against all the champions in this division would be a dream come true for me.
We would like to thank Greg Cohen Promotions for providing this once in a lifetime opportunity,” said Komanisi’s manager, Mlandeli Tengimfene. “To Komanisi, this partnership is a dream come true.
Clifford Mass, GCP Vice President of Business Development, says the goal will be to put the African slugger into the mix. “We are very excited about signing Lusanda Komanisi. He is a huge puncher, and featherweight is one of the hottest divisions in boxing right now. We are looking forward to putting together some big fights for him, and helping him take his career to the next level.

WBA Interim Champ Zhakiyanov and Camp Respond to ‘Blatantly FalseRumors Being Spread by Super Flyweight Contender Zolani Tete

Interim WBA World Bantamweight Champion ZhanatZZZhakiyanov (26-1, 18 Kos) and his representatives are now forced to respond to the deliberate falsehoods being distributed by the team around South African super flyweight Zolani Tete.

Zhakiyanov of Petropavl, Kazakhstan, is a proud warrior, who has been willing to face anyone from the start of his career. Which is what makes the blatantly false and intentionally misleading allegations by Tete’s camp so infuriating.
Tete and his manager, Mla Tengimfene, have been feeding the media a fictional story that Zhakiyanov recently backed out of a purported fight between the two, supposedly scheduled for Júní 4 at Echo Arena in Liverpool.
One problem.
Zhakiyanov and his people were never even contacted about such a fight. It never existed.
I have never heard from anyone about this fight,” said Zhakiyanov. “They are saying I can’t make the weight and that’s why I can’t fight him. I was never supposed to fight him! He and his people are telling stories.
Zhakiyanov’s manager, Philippe Fondu, wonders why the media would even believe such a fight ever existed when a quick check of the WBA rule book would have eliminated all talk of such a match-up.
There were some unfounded rumors on the net about Zhanat defending against Tete a while ago, but having never received any concrete proposal from anyone, including his new promoter Frank Warren, I never paid any specific attention to these rumors. But let’s be honest here. Zhanat Zhakiyanov is the reigning interim WBA Bantamweight champion and Tete is actually boxing for other world organizations (IBF and/or WBO). Ennfremur, Tete is rated #9 in the WBA super-flyweight division (115 lb.). Such a contest could obviously not even be considered, as a WBA Interim 118-lb. champion can only defend his title against a WBA top-15 rated boxer in the 118 £. division.
Fondu also says that Zhakiyanov, promoted by Hatton Promotions, is fully capable of making the 118-lb weight limit and welcomes any and all viable fight proposals approvable by the WBA.
I have been in boxing many years and I understand using the media to get a fighter’s name in print,” continued Fondu, “but they are using the name of a champion and proud representative of his home country of Kazakhstan to do it and it’s not right. Hopefully the media will get more responsible about checking the facts in the future.

Marston to Challenge Tshabalala for Her World Crown on July 2nd

Over the past week or so the World’s press have been focusing heavily on the recently announced 9th July Tyson Fury-Wladimir Klitschko WBO-WBA-IBO Unified Heavyweight Championships rematch. Quite rightly so, it’s a huge fight, however just one week earlier, an equally World significant unification bout is also set to take place right here in the United Kingdom.

 

Júlí 2ND, at the Arena UK in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Heimurinn #15 and British #1 ranked Marianne Marston will not only be challenging South Africa’s World Boxing Federation (WBFed) Super Bantamweight World Champion Gabisile Tshabalala for her coveted crown, but will also be aiming to secure the World Boxing Union (WBU), Women’s International Boxing Association (WIBA) and Universal Boxing Organization (UBO) World accolades.

 

London based Marston, who was originally due to challenge Unathi Myekeni for the Bantamweight version of the WBFed strap back in December, that was until Myekeni was forced to withdraw following a hand injury, is cleary relishing the belated opportunity, eins og hún gerði ljóst þegar hún talaði áðan.

 

“I cannot thank WBFed President Howard Goldberg enough for making this happen, like me he was so dissapointed when Unathi (Myekeni) pulled out injured last year.

 

In addition to Howard, I would also lke to thank WIBA President Ryan Wissow, WBU President Don Lewis and Sebastien Pitois from the UBO, as they have been so supportive throughout my career, so to also challenge for their Championships really is so special for me.

 

I’m forty two now, so honestly thought after Unathi pulled out, that’s it for me, I’ll never get the chance to fight for a World title, OK that’s not quite true, I could have fought for a vacant title, but to me that’s just not good enough, Ég vil berjast við bestu, I want to beat the World Champion.

 

I’ve seen video of Gabisile, when she fought Shannon (O'Connell) í 2013, but would very much like to find any video of her when she won the World title last year. I know how much I have changed, fight wise, síðan 2013 so really want to see if there are any changes to her style or tactics.

 

From what I have seen, she’s a classy fighter, very quick hands. When she fought Shannon, she was mainly counter punching, which would suit me, but for some reason I have a feeling she will have a very different approach as a defending Champion.

 

Hvort heldur, this will be a great fight for the fans, there’s such a contrast in our styles and in my view it’s those differences in style and tactical approach that will make this such a great fight to watch.

 

British boxing is booming, we have so many World Champions at the moment, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, Kell Brook, Carl Frampton, Lee Selby, Liam Smith, Jamie McDonnell, Lee Haskins, Tony Moran, Craig Docherty, Terry Flanagan, Anthony Crolla, James DeGale and of course my old gym mate at the TKO, Billy Joe Saunders.

 

Obviously they’re all men, so I want to redress the deficit a little and join them, as well as be the first British Female boxer to be crowned World Champion since Jane Couch beat Jaime Clampitt for the IWBF title in 2004.”

 

Gabisile Tshabalala Vs Marianne Marston for the WBFed, WBU, WIBA and UBO Super Bantamweight Unified World Championship headlines the Russ Brown promoted AS GOOD AS IT GETS event at the Arena UK in Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK on Saturday 2ND Júlí.

 

This event is sanctioned by the British & Irish Boxing Authority (BIBA) www.boxbiba.com

 

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Female Heimurinn Stofnun Bout Co-Headlines 6. desember London Event

 

London, Englendingurinn Marianne Marston er sett fyrir erfiðustu baráttu ferli sínum til þessa, Þegar hún ferninga á móti Mdantsane, Suður-Afríku Unathi einn í heiminum Bantamweight sameiningu keppni, á York Hall í London, á sunnudaginn 6th Desember.

 

British #1, Marston var að vonast til að skora tímabundna WBC Bantamweight Champion Christina Mc Mahon titli hennar í október, þó Mc Mahon var boðið tækifæri til að skora Alicia Ashley fyrir WBC Super Bantamweight kórónu í New York á að 29th Október, gullið tækifæri hæfileikaríkur Irishwoman bara gat ekki snúið niður.

 

Með neitun úrslita lota á næsta sjóndeildarhringnum Marston hafði ákveðið að taka á a non-Championship lota í York Hall á október 23Rd, þá fyrr í þessum mánuði að hún var boðið að skora Myekeni í Suður-Afríku snemma í 2016, af Veröld Boxing Federation forseti Howard Goldberg.

 

Sumir klókur samningaviðræður lið Marston er og London verkefnisstjóri Mark Lyons, ásamt stuðningi frá styrktaraðilum sínum Monarch Communications, BoxFit UK, Optimax og 3X Sports, Keppnin var keypt fram til desember og flutti til London.

 

Marston, sem tryggt sér MBC International titilinn, sem og heimsins #24 röðun, í október á síðasta ári með stopp út stig sigri Marianna Gulyas, til að stilla hana upp fyrir skot á heimsmeistaratitilinn, þó frá þeim sigri Marston hefur aðeins barist einu sinni, berja Riga, Lettlands Jekaterina Lecko með annarri umferð stöðvunar aftur í ágúst.

 

Andstæðingurinn hennar á 6th Desember, Okkur einn, er miklu meira upplifað, bæði samkeppni vitur, auk Championship vitur, og hefur áður haldið bæði fugla Boxing Federation og World Boxing Foundation International titla auk World Boxing Federation Super Bantamweight Heimurinn Crown.

 

Í síðustu keppni sinni, Myekeni börðust og missti af ákvörðun meirihluta að náungi South African Gabisile Tshabalala fyrir WBFed Super Bantamweight titil.

 

Tal áðan Marston talaði stuttlega um komandi baráttu,

 

"Ég get ekki byrjað að tjá hvernig ánægður ég er að enn fá að berjast fyrir World titilinn á þessu ári og sú staðreynd að það verður sameiningu fjögurra titlum gerir það enn meira sérstakt.

 

Þegar Christina sagði okkur að hún hefur tækifæri til að berjast í Ameríku fyrir WBC fullum titli og eins og svo baráttu okkar myndi ekki fara á undan á þessu ári, Ég var virkilega vonsvikinn.

 

Ekki fá mig rangur Ég er ánægður fyrir Christina, en frá degi eitt af viðræðum við stjórn, sem við höfðum verið að undirbúa fyrir þeirri baráttu, allt sem við hafði verið að vinna á var að berjast hana, við reyndum jafnvel að fá mótherja sem var svipuð í stíl við hana fyrir ágúst baráttunni, en svo fer það.

 

Því miður hef ég ekki séð eitthvað af slagsmálum Unathi þannig veit ekki of mikið um hana, vonandi munum við hafa sumir vídeó af slagsmálum titli hennar í þessari viku og þá getum við byrjað að leita að hentugum samstarfsaðilum sparring og í raun fá Tjaldvagnar byrjaði.

 

Ég get ekki þakka Howard (Goldberg) nóg fyrir að gefa mér þetta tækifæri, sem og Ryan (WIBA President Ryan Wissow) og Don (WBU & WIBC President Don Lewis) fyrir þeirra leyfa mér að berjast fyrir titla þeirra líka, auk Mark (Forgöngumaður Mark Lyons) og dásamlegt er að styrkja Monarch Communications, Optimax, Boxfit UK og 3X Sports fyrir þá að vera rétt fyrir aftan mig og gefa mér tækifæri á að taka þátt í þessum sögulega sameiningu lota, hvað er meira hérna í London.

 

Ég þarf einnig að þakka frábæra aðdáendur mína, þeir eru í raun frábær, svo stutt og mjög, mjög hávær, vonandi munum við hafa fullt hús á York Hall á desember 6th, ef við gerum þeir hækka þakið þegar ég berjast, það er á hreinu. "

 

Marianne Marston vs Unathi einn fyrir Sameinað WBU, WBFed, WIBA og WIBC Heimurinn Bantamweight Championships co-fyrirsögn sem Mark Lyons og Marianne Marston co-kynnt LET BATTLE hefja atburður á York Hall, Bethnal Green, London á sunnudaginn 6th Desember 2015.

 

Þessi atburður er refsað kurteisi af Malta Boxing framkvæmdastjórnarinnar (MBC) www.maltaboxingcommission.com

 

Miðar, verð 35 £ (staðall sæti) og £ 65 (Ringside) eru í boði frá einhverju Boxer taka þátt, á netinu áwww.letbattlecommence.com og www.mariannemarston.com í síma 07960 850645