Category: Press Release

Kallen, Stallone & Braithwaite on N.E. Ringside Radio Show  Thursday night, April 31

BOSTON (March 27, 2005) – This week’s New England Ringside Radio Show takes a bite of reality, boxing-wise, with special guests Jackie Kallen, Frank  Stallone and WBC cruiserweight champion Wayne “Big Truck” Braithwaite Thursday night (6-8 PM) on WWZN 1510 The Zone. The two-hour New England Ringside Boxing Radio Show – hosted by Ted Bodenrader, Anthony Pepe, Rick Brutti and Joe Bills -- airs every Thursday night between 6-8 pm (ET) on Boston’s Boxing Station, The Zone (1510 AM), and also may be heard live on the Internet by going to....Link Kallen, of course, had a movie made about her life in boxing, Against The Ropes, starring Meg Ryan. Jackie also is involved in The Contender. She’ll discuss the reality series, what it was like managing James Toney, and her newest client, Read more [...]

Vargas coming to Providence for Balletto in Halloween Homecoming

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – Former world champion “Goyo” Vargas is coming all the way from Mexico to Providence on a mission to take Gary “Tiger” Balletto’s International Boxing Union lightweight crown at “Halloween Homecoming,” ESPN 2 Friday Night Fights show October 31 at the Rhode Island Convention Center. Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc. is presenting “Halloween Homecoming,” in association with Mohegan Sun, 94 WHJY, Westin Hotel and Gansett Juice. Vargas (43-7-1, 30 KOs), the former World Boxing Council super featherweight champion and present No. 16 rated contender, is cut from the same mold as great Mexican fighters such as Julio Cesar Chavez, Salvador Sanchez, Erik Morales, Carlos Zarate and Ricardo Lopez. Vargas’ lone loss in Read more [...]

Dawson-Welliver fight for WBC Youth middleweight title

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – Two 21-year-old middleweight prospects, “Bad” Chad Dawson and Dumont “Dewey” Welliver, will fight for the vacant WBC Youth title in the 10-round co-feature October 31 on Haunted Homecoming,” promoted by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc., live on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence. Hometown hero Gary “Tiger” Balletto (29-1-2, 25 KOs), born in Providence’s historic Federal Hill, defends his International Boxing Union World lightweight title against former world champion Gregorio “Goyo” Vargas (43-7-1, 30 KOs) in the 12-round main event on “Haunted Homecoming,” presented by CES in association with Mohegan Sun, 94 WHJY, Westin Hotel and Gansett Juice. Dawson and Welliver Read more [...]

Irwin backs out of Balletto fight

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – Billy “The Kid” Irwin, according to veteran promoter Jimmy Burchfield, is living up to his nickname. Acting more like a kid than man, Irwin has informed Burchfield that he is reneging on his agreement to fight Gary “Tiger” Balletto, claiming he didn’t have enough time to train. Irwin had verbally agreed to fight International Boxing Union lightweight champion Balletto (29-1-2, 25 KOs), of Providence (RI), October 31 in the ESPN2 Friday Night Fights main event, but the Canadian lightweight title-holder Irwin (41-5, 29 KOs) has officially backed-out of the match. “Two months isn’t enough time to train,” an irritated Burchfield rhetorically asked. “Irwin must believe Gary Balletto is the top lightweight in the world. Eight weeks is more than Read more [...]