Kendall Holt: record, next fight and profile →
Back on February 19th Greg Cohen Promotions staged a card at the WinnaVegas Casino Resort in Sloan, Iowa. Now they are coming back with another nationally televised show on November 11th.
Greg Cohen of Greg Cohen Promotions proudly announces the signing of WBO Junior Welterweight Champion Kendall "Rated R" Holt to a promotional contract. Holt (28-6, 16 KOs), from Paterson, New Jersey, hasn't been in the ring in over two years, but is eager to get back in the swing of things and take on the world's top welterweights.
Former champion Kendall Holt has not fought since February of 2013, when he was stopped by Lamont Peterson in a junior welterweight title fight. Holt still follows the sport very closely and occasionally gets the itch to return. One of the recent topics circulating around is the question mark surrounding the next opponent for Floyd Mayweather's upcoming defense of his welterweight titles on September 12th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Kendall Holt understands injuries occur and fights get canceled or postponed, but the former WBO junior welterweight champion is still aggravated over the cancellation Thursday of his Jan. 24 fight against Javier Molina. The 32-year-old Holt (28-6, 16 KOs), of Paterson, N.J., and the 24-year-old Molina (14-1, 6 KOs), a 2008 Olympian from Norwalk, Calif., were scheduled to square off in an ESPN2 main event in two weeks in Shelton, Wash. Molina suffered a hand injury Wednesday during training that’ll require surgery Tuesday and their 10-round welterweight fight was canceled.
The book is still out on welterweight Javier Molina of Norwalk, Calif. But the 2008 U.S. Olympian will get a huge test Jan. 24 when he takes on former junior welterweight champion Kendall Holt in the 10-round main event at Little Creek Casino Resort in Shelton, Wash. (on ESPN2).
Sherman Oaks, CA (January 9, 2014) Highly regarded welterweight prospect Javier Molina suffered a fractured right hand in sparring on Wednesday afternoon and has withdrawn from his ESPN Friday Night Fights presented by Corona Extra™ showdown on JANUARY 24 with former world champion Kendall Holt it was announced today by Dan Goossen, President of Goossen Tutor Promotions. The new main event for the ESPN Friday Night Fights/"Little Creek Brawl IV" event at the Little Creek Casino Resort in Shelton, Washington, will be a ten round NABO Light Heavyweight Championship clash between top undefeated prospect Thomas Williams Jr. of Fort Washington, Maryland and Houston based world-contender Cornelius White. "It's truly an unfortunate situation for Javier who has been saddled with hand injuries since the beginning of his professional career," said Goossen. "This is the fourth fracture of his hands he's had to endure. I feel terrible with what this good young man has had to overcome so early in his career."
Former WBO junior welterweight champion Kendall Holt tweeted Tuesday that he’ll return to the ring Jan. 24 against Javier Molina. According to Holt, the welterweight bout will be broadcast by ESPN2 from Little Creek Casino Resort in Shelton, Wash. The 32-year-old Holt (28-6, 16 KOs) has not fought since then-champion Lamont Peterson (31-2-1, 16 KOs) stopped him in the eighth round of their IBF 140-pound championship match Feb. 22 in Washington, D.C.
Kendall Holt hasn’t been this excited about a fight, not even one of his own, in a long time. The former WBO junior welterweight champion cannot wait for Friday night, when he is 100 percent certain Glen Tapia will take the significant step in his pro boxing career that so many of Tapia’s contemporaries from New Jersey have failed to take. Transforming fighters from prospects to legitimate contenders is very difficult; so tough that no boxer from New Jersey has done it since Paterson’s Holt stopped then-undefeated David Diaz in February 2005. Three years later, Holt won a world title. He expects Passaic’s Tapia (18-0, 10 KOs) to travel a comparable path with a win over another unbeaten, hungry prospect, El Paso’s Abie Han (19-0, 12 KOs), in their 10-round junior middleweight match in Las Vegas (10 p.m., ESPN2).
I am pleased to announce that according to laboratory results I am not under suspicion of having taken a banned substance in connection with my bout against Lamont Peterson. We have received an email from Dr. David Eichner, Director of the WADA accredited Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory that my results “do not suggest doping.” As explained to me, “intact HCB” indicates the use of that banned substance. A confirmatory test reflected that I did not have “intact HCB” and thus doping was ruled out in my case.
Kendall Holt is a fighter through and through. Like any prideful warrior, he is prepared to climb off the canvas, dust himself off and fight on. The former 140 lb. titlist was informed on Thursday that a drug test submitted following last month’s title fight knockout loss to Lamont Peterson produced atypical findings of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, commonly known as hCG. The news came out after a two-week attempt by the Holt camp to obtain test results for both fighters from the D.C. Boxing and Wrestling Commission, who presided over the February 22 ESPN2-televised event.