CES Franchise goes for knockout

(MAY 27) PROVIDENCE – Providence's newest professional sports franchise -- Jimmy Burchfield's Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc (CES) – brings the fights June 17 to The All-New Theatre at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in downtown Providence with the debut of "Providence's Prime Time Fights." Providence super middleweight Joey "KO Kid" Spina (15-0, 12 KOs) fights former WBA and WBF champion Carl Daniels (49-6-1, 31 KOs) in the 10-round main event for the vacant World Boxing Council affiliated USNBC super middleweight championship. Daniels, fighting out of St. Louis, also held the USBA and Missouri State title belts and he has fought Bernard Hopkins, Julio Cesar Vasquez and Terry Norris. "I was just with Joey in Las Vegas when I was there to watch Peter Manfredo, Jr. in The Contenders. Read more [...]