Day: February 26, 2022

U.S. Army veteran Daniel Bailey, Jr. gets first title shot March 12th vs. Jonathan Javier Fierro

BOSTON (February 24, 2022) –- U.S. Army veteran Daniel “The Dedication” Bailey, Jr. (10-0, 5 KOs) will get his first title shot March 12th, when he takes on 18-year-old Mexican knockout artist Jonathan “Diamante Zurdo” Javier Fierro (12-0, 11 KOs) for the vacant North American Boxing Association (NABA) Featherweight Championship. The 10-round bout will take place at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington. The winner will earn a WBA top 15 rating. Bailey, managed by Ryan Roach’s Fighter Locker, was born in Miami and fights out of Tampa. The cousin of 2-division World champion Randall Bailey, Daniel was honorably discharged from the military after serving a 6-year stint. He was a 4-time U.S. Army champion, rated as high as No. 1 in the country as an amateur boxer. Read more [...]

Ukraine’s Boxers Hope for Peace, Are Ready To Fight by Lucas Carroll

(FEB 26) 18 year old Matvii Razhba has spent months training for a major national boxing tournament scheduled for two weeks from now and was hoping for a win, the next step toward his dream of boxing for Ukraine in the 2024 Olympics. “At the age of 10 I went into boxing,” he said. “I realized that I could defend the honor of my country in the ring and glorify our beloved Ukraine.” Razhba attended a social media training with several other boxers that their manager sent them to on Wednesday afternoon at a Kharkiv, Ukraine start-up space just 25 miles from the Russian border. That evening, the group of boxers ended their day in the gym. “Yesterday we trained, prepared for the tournament,” he said. “But now we will prepare to defend our country.” A three time national boxing Read more [...]