WORCESTER, Mass. – “Punch-out at Polar Park II,” introduced by Shearns Boxing Promotions (SBP) along with Kendrick Ball’s Camp Get Proper Boxing, will showcase a quartet of domestically developed expertise in a continuation of the town’s wealthy boxing historical past that dates again a century.
Worcester’s Harry Devine captured a bronze medal within the featherweight division on the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, the place Basic Douglas McArthur cheered him on from ringside. And Canadian-born Lou Brouillard moved to his adopted dwelling of Worcester, and he grew to become its first world champion boxer. Brouillard (100-32-1, 57 KOs) fought professionally between 1928 and 1940, reigning because the world welterweight champion from 1931 to 1932, including the New York State Athletic Fee “World” Championship to his resume in 1933. He was inducted into the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame (IBHOF) in 1990.
Worcester’s second world champion is “El Gallo” Jose Antonio Rivera (43-6-1, 25 KOs), whose lengthy professional profession went from 1992 to 2019. He was born in Philadelphia and moved to Worcester from Springfield when he was solely 16. Rivera was the World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) Junior Middleweight and Welterweight World Champion, in addition to the Worldwide Boxing Group (IBO) World Welterweight titleholder.
Gifted Worcester boxers by the years have included heavyweight Bobby Harris (1993-99), who was a four-time nationwide novice champion, highlighted by the Nationwide Golden Gloves Championship, adopted 9 years later by Dominican Republic-native Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez (31-2, 20 KOs). Rodriguez was a world tremendous middleweight contender who went the space with Corridor of Fame boxer Andre Ward in 2013.
And Worcester’s boxing custom continues at this time, headlined by World Tremendous Light-weight World title challenger Jamaine “The Technician” Ortiz (17-2-1, 8 KOs), who’s rated No. 9, No. 12 and No. 14 on this planet, respectively, by the Worldwide Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Group (WBO) and World Boxing Council (WBC).
The way forward for Worcester boxing consists of 4 boxers combating on the “Punch-Out at Polar Park II” card, which might be streamed stay from Worcester’s sensational Polar Park on www.bxngtv.com.
Three domestically based mostly boxers might be making their professional debuts: Millbury welterweight Justin Laporte, who fought final 12 months on the novice a part of the cardboard, vs. Tymar Miles (0-2), Worcester junior middleweight Jhon “D-Wave” Devers Rodriguez vs. Igor Santos (0-1) and Worcester welterweight “Grafton Hill’s Favourite Son” Daniel Docimo vs. Tracey Coppedge (0-3).
The 24-year-old Laporte, skilled by one other excellent Worcester boxer, Sean Fitzgerald, is Worcester resident and licensed realtor who’s a finance main pupil at Nichols School. The southpaw is a U.S. Marine combating as a welterweight.
Devers Rodriguez, 23, is a local of the Dominican Republic and two-time New England Golden Gloves Champion as a novice. Like Laporte, he trains out of Camp Get Proper Boxing in Worcester.
The preferred boxer to return out of Worcester in a very long time is welterweight Dan Docimo, who is called “Grafton Hill’s Favourite Son.” A locksmith for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the final 17 years, Docimo is one other southpaw who will rejoice his thirty sixth birthday the night time of his professional debut.
The opposite Worcester fighter in motion Aug. ninth is four-time New England Golden Gloves Champion Keno Luna (2-0, 2 KOs), who meets Izaiah Vargas (1-10) in a four-round bout. Luna has been lively this summer time as a member of the Boston Butchers staff in The Fight League (TCL).
“A boxer making his or her professional debut is at all times thrilling,” promoter Chuck Shearns stated. “I’m completely happy these Worcester guys are capable of do it in entrance of their household and pals at such an ideal occasion. The subsequent era of Worcester boxers begins now.”
The one returning “Punch-Out” fighter from final 12 months’s professional card, promising Boca Raton (FL) prospect Josniel “TG” Castro (12-1, 8 KOs), is the headliner within the eight-round predominant occasion in opposition to Jerry Bradford (9-2, 5 KOs) for the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) U.S. Junior Middleweight title. Worcester is Castro’s second dwelling.
Two-time, two-division world champion Maureen “The Actual Million Greenback Child” Shea (30-2-1, 13 KOs), combating out Delray Seaside (FL) by means of The Bronx (NY), takes on Slovakia-native Beata Dudek (4-2, 4 KOs), who fights out of Hungary, within the eight-round co-featured occasion.
Undefeated, fan favourite heavyweight Kevin “Huge Gulp” Nagle (8-0, 7 KOs), a U.S. Military veteran from Scituate (MA), faces Mexican veteran Jose “Olympico” Humberto Corral (20-33, 12 KOs) in an eight-round match.
Additionally combating on the undercard in four-round matches are Connecticut heavyweight Joe Powers (1-2, 1 KO) vs. pro-debuting Angolan Manuel Joao Balanga, and pro-debuting New York tremendous middleweight Austin Cassese vs. Erick Matheus Alves (0-4).
Roberto Villa is the CEO, Founder, Government Author, Senior Editor of FightBook MMA. Has a ardour for Fight Sports activities and likewise a podcast host for Sitting Ringside. He’s additionally a former MMA fighter and Kickboxer.
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