Unbeaten Lynn tremendous middleweight prospect James “Pitbull” Perkins (11-0-1, 8 KOs) is a strong fighter who has developed his higher physique energy in an uncommon method as a gravedigger.
The 30-year-old Perkins faces Texas veteran Larry “Slo Mo” Smith (13-53-2. 9 KOs) Saturday evening, June tenth, in a six-round bout on the “Combat Night time on the Vets Membership” card, introduced by Granite Chin Promotions’ (GCP), on the Veterans Membership in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Perkins, who has labored the previous three years at Lynn’s St. Joseph’s Cemetery, agrees that his job has certainly helped him as a prizefighter.
“It positively works for certain,” Perkins stated. “It’s not all digging prefer it was previously in cemeteries. We use a backhoe now, however there are locations it may’t be used, so we nonetheless dig loads.”
A hockey participant at St. Mary’s Excessive Faculty in Lynn, Perkins turned to boxing when he graduated in 2011 when he didn’t obtain a hockey scholarship from any faculty he was interested by enjoying for.
“I bought into one other intensive labor job engaged on a lobster boat,” he defined. “However I wanted to get again right into a sport. After I was 19, Stu Randall – he now works my nook – introduced me to a gymnasium in Saugus. I met Joe Ricciardi and he turned my head coach. I used to be 5-1 as an beginner and figured I’d go professional.”
Lynn is experiencing a boxing rebirth, of types. Danny Avery was a gifted Lynn fighter again within the early Nineteen Eighties who skilled below the famed Petronelli brothers in Brockton (they skilled Marvelous Marvin Hagler), however the Ellis household presently guidelines Lynn boxing at this time with high 10 ranked welterweight “Speedy” Rashidi Ellis (24-1, 15 KOs), Ronald “Akeem” Ellis (18-3-2, 12 KOs) and their sister, Rashida, a 2020 U.S. Olympian boxer. Perkins represents the most recent wave of promising boxers from town situated north of Boston.
“There’s additionally a 16-year-old from Lynn, Malik Johnson, who trains the place I do at Broadway Boxing Membership in Everett,” Perkins added. “He’s going to be a very good fighter. I do know concerning the Ellis household, and I do really feel a bit of stress coming from Lynn. However I’m as much as the duty!
“I’m fortunate to have the assist I’ve, principally from Lynn,” Perkins concluded. “They’ve traveled throughout to my fights and I think they’ll journey to Bridgewater as nicely,”
From a hockey rink to a lobster boat, Perkins is now digging his option to the highest of the New England Boxing rankings.
“James is a good man, and he at all times makes for an thrilling combat,” GSP president Chris Traietti commented. “”We’re honored to have him on one other certainly one of our playing cards. He’s stepping in with an skilled man on June tenth who I anticipate will check him a bit. On high of being an thrilling fighter watch, he brings a passionate fan-base that will likely be loud and proud in Bridgewater.”
Julien “Black Dragon” Baptiste (4-2, 2 KOs), of Woburn (MA), takes on New Hampshire’s Ryan Thomas Clark (2-3. 1 KO) within the six-round principal occasion for the vacant United States Boxing Federation (USBF) middleweight title.
Additionally slated to combat on the “Combat Night time on the Vets Membership” are former New England Welterweight Champion Mike “Dangerous Man” Ohan, Jr. (17-2, 9 KOs), of Holbrook (MA), vs. William Parra Smith (4-14-1, 3 KOs) in an eight-round bout; Boston light-weight Arika Skoog (1-0-1, 1 KO), the 2020 USA Boxing Elite Nationwide and a number of New England Golden Gloves champion, vs. Sarah “Change Kick” Click on (1-4-1 in a six-rounder), and Scituate heavyweight Kevin Nagle (1-0, 1 KO) vs. Reinaldo Souza (0-1) in a four-round match.
Card topic to alter.
Tickets are priced at $60.00 (ground seats), $40.00 (standing room solely), and $400.00 for ringside tables of 4 can be found for buy at granite chin promotions.
Doorways open at 6:30 p.m. ET, first bout at 7 p.m. ET.
