Month: January 2021

RDR Promotions Presents a Super Night of Boxing on Saturday, February 6th

Philadelphia, PA (January 19, 2021) - A terrific night of boxing is planned for Saturday night, February 6th at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia. The eight-bout event, promoted by RDR Promotions will feature a pair of undefeated featherweights in the main event as Donald "No Love" Smith takes on William Foster III in a bout scheduled for six-rounds. Smith, 27 of Philadelphia, has a record of 10-0 with six knockouts.  Smith is a five-year professional, and is coming off a six-round unanimous decision over Abdur-Raheem Abdullah on August 10, 2019 in Philadelphia. Foster, 27, of New Haven, Connecticut is 11-0 with eight knockouts.  The six-year pro has quality wins over undefeated Sulaiman Segawa (10-0) and Angel Suarez.  In his last bout, Foster took out Jahmal Read more [...]

RJJ Boxing successfully met 2020 pandemic challenges

Santiago Dominguez  LAS VEGAS (January 18, 2021) - Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Promotions (RJJ Boxing) successfully met 2020 pandemic challenges, promoting eight shows, including seven during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each event was streamed live and exclusively on UFC FIGHT PASS®, the world's leading digital subscription service for combat sports. To sign-up for UFC FIGHT PASS, please visit  www.ufcfightpass.com Keys to its success included RJJ Boxing working with other promoters like De La O Promotions in Mexico and Rite Hook Promotions, keeping its boxers as busy as often as possible despite restrictions extremely tough obstacles, showcasing relatively unknown fighters from Mexico, Guatemala, and Cuba to new audiences, and its strong relationship with UFC FIGHT PASS. RJJ Read more [...]

Salita Brothers and NYC Candidate Boris Noble, Donate and Distribute Thousands of Books to Non-Profit Organizations

Over the holiday season, boxing promoter and former fighter Dmitriy Salita teamed up with activist and New York City Council, District 48 candidate Boris Noble to distribute thousands of books to various non-profits in Southern Brooklyn. Groups receiving books included the Be Proud Foundation, the Nostrand Houses Tenant Association, PASWO-Pakistani American Skilled Women’s Organization, the Chinese American Planning Council, the Salvation Army, Cinderella Daycare of Brighton Beach, Red Hat Daycare in Midwood and Malenkaya Kompaniya of Sheepshead Bay. Young children were gifted the book B is for Boxing. Co-authored by Salita, his brother Michael, and Bill Caplan and illustrated by Elena Stekacheva. Based on Salita’s life story, B is for Boxing is an alphabetical trip around Read more [...]

Gilberto Ramirez all in for WBC Interim World light heavyweight clash with Marcus Browne

LAS VEGAS (January 14, 2021) -- The first super middleweight world champion of Mexican decent, undefeated Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez (41-0, 27 KOs) is all in for a potential World Boxing Council (WBC) Interim light heavyweight World title fight against 2012 U.S. Olympian "Sir" Marcus Browne (23-1, 16 KOs).   The WBC ordered Ramirez vs. Browne this past Monday because reigning WBC light heavyweight World champion Artur Beterbiev (15-0, 15 KOs) hasn't defended his title since capturing it October 18, 2019, due to getting COVID-19 during training camp, as well as for other pandemic related restrictions. Beterbiev is also the reigning International Boxing Federation (IBF) light heavyweight World champion.   Ramirez is the No. 1 light heavyweight contender in the WBC ratings, while Read more [...]

Angelo Leo Takes on Unbeaten Rising Star Stephen Fulton Jr. Live on Showtime

NEW YORK - January 12, 2021 - In the long-awaited battle between undefeated rising junior featherweight stars, WBO 122-pound World Champion Angelo Leo meets Stephen "Cool Boy" Fulton Jr., in the main event of the first SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast of 2021 Saturday, January 23 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT live on SHOWTIME from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., in a Premier Boxing Champions event. The co-main event pits two more undefeated 122-pound boxers against each other as Ra'eese Aleem and Victor Pasillas face off in a 12-round bout for the interim WBA title. The telecast opener features rising prospect Rolando Romero against Justin Pauldo in a 12-round lightweight bout for Romero's interim WBA title. The combined ring record of the six fighters on the card Read more [...]

San Diego amateur boxer Jonathan Mansour experienced emotional roller-coaster ride in 2020

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (January 7, 2021) - In 2019, Jonathan "Magic" Mansour finished fifth at the USA Olympic Trials as one of the youngest competitors in the field, and the now 21-year-old San Diego featherweight had planned to put on a magical performance at the 2020 USA Boxing National Championships this past December, at the Shreveport Convention Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. In late October, Mansour was named as the USA Boxing Olympic Qualifying Team alternate in the featherweight division, replacing the original alternate, David Navarro, who recently turned pro. Brooklyn's Bruce Carrington is the USA Boxing Olympic Qualifying Team representative in the featherweight division, who needs to finish among the top six finishers at the Americas Qualification Tournament this Read more [...]

Jan. 20th ShoBox debut Career-changing opportunity for Unbeaten super lightweight Mykquan Williams

HARTFORD (January 7, 2021) - Last month, hours after receiving the disappointing news that his first fight in 14 months had been scraped, unbeaten East Hartford (CT) super lightweight prospect "Marvelous" Mykquan Williams (15-0-1, 7 KOs) received word that instead of fighting in relatively obscurity in Cancun, he would be making his ShoBox: The New Generation" debut, January 20th at nearby Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Williams, 22, will headline against undefeated Colombian knockout artist Yeis Gabriel "El Tigre" Solano (15-0, 10 KOs) in the 10-round main event on SHOWTIME, airing live at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m., to kick off ShoBox's 20th season. Mohegan Sun is only a 45-minute drive from Williams' home, but his fan-base won't be there rooting him on, unfortunately, Read more [...]

Star Boxing 2020 Rewind: Fighting Through an Improbable year

When the ball dropped and we wrang in the new year of 2020, there was much promise and anticipation for what the new decade would bring for boxing fans.  Another year of big fights and earth-shattering knockouts was upon us. Wasting no time, just eleven days into the new year, Long Island's hero and current world rated #1 light heavyweight, "The Common Man," JOE "THE BEAST" SMITH JR. (26-3 21KO's) hammered then #1 world rated light heavyweight Jesse Hart on ESPN at the Hard Rock in Atlantic city. With his dominant victory, Smith earned the WBO NABO Light Heavyweight title. Fast forward to August, Smith Jr. entered as the underdog for the second time in 2020 against former world champion and then #1 rated light heavyweight, Eleider Alvarez, on ESPN in a WBO World Title Read more [...]