UNCASVILLE, CONN – Connecticut native son, undefeated NABF/NABO featherweight champion and Top-10 contender MATT “Sharp Shooter” REMILLARD, has signed on to fight on the all-action boxing card at the Mohegan Sun, Saturday, November 20, in a 10-round co-main event featherweight battle. The card will be headlined by undefeated former IBF lightweight champion Paul “The Pittsburgh Kid” Spadafora, making his Mohegan Sun debut, in a 10-round junior welterweight rumble with Diego Jesus Ponce.
Promoted by Michael Acri Boxing Promotions, remaining tickets, priced at $75 (ringside), $45 (reserved) and $30 (general admission), can be purchased at the Mohegan Sun box office, all Tickermaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000.
Remillard (22-0, 13 KOs), of Hartford, is looking to complete a 2010 Mohegan Sun knockout hat-trick. In January, he stopped Rafael Lora in the third round to successfully defend his NABF title. He followed that up with a fourth-round TKO of Carlos Rivera in May in another NABF title defense while also adding the vacant NABO featherweight title to his trophy case. World-rated No. 5 by the WBO and No. 6 by the WBC and the WBA, Remillard enters this fight having won six of his last bouts by stoppage. His opponent will be announced shortly.
Ponce (19-5-3, 3 KOs), of Palmira Mendoza, Argentina, will be making his U.S. debut when he faces Spadafora. The former WBC Mundo Hispano lightweight champion is 8-1-1 in his last 10 fights and has won all three of his fights in 2010.
The undercard will feature exciting prospects from the New England area, including: heavyweight Keith Bianchini (1-0), of Worcester, Mass., junior middleweight Dustin Reinhold (4-1, 2 KOs), of Fall River, Mass., super middleweight Mark DeLuca (7-0, 5 KOs), of Whitman, Mass., lightweight Joe Perez (4-0, 1 KO), and female welterweight Adelita Irzarry (8-4, 2 KOs), both who hail from Hartford. Youngstown-based world-class trainer Jack Loew will have lightweight Chris Hazimihalis (3-0, 3 KOs), of Campbell, OH., on the undercard too.
Karachi: Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) has announced an 11 member national squad which would take part in the upcoming 16 Asian Games which will be held in Guangzhou, China
Boxing competition in the Asian Games are to be played from November 15-27, 2010.
Pakistan’s team includes eight boxers and three officials. The team is undergoing training in preparations for the championship in Islamabad
Camp commandant Mr. Iqbal Hussain was in Islamabad Camp and the after two day’s trial sparring and successful discussion with Cuban and other national coaches they have finales’ the name of 8 boxers.
‘‘Our talented boxers can change the last Asian Games results were not any one Pakistani Boxer reach even in the second round match’’ say Camp Commandant Iqbal Hussain, it’s no doubt our boxers will face hard competition in the mega event from China, Korea, Cuba, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Indian boxers but they can do well in the ring like Commonwealth Games where two Pakistani boxers Muhammad Waseem and Haroon Iqbal Khan got bronze medals for country he also expressed.
Squad: Muhammad Wasim (49 KG), Haroon Iqbal Khan (52 KG), Niamatullah (56 KG), Nawaz Dad (60 KG), Amir Khan (64 KG), Arshad Hussain (69 KG), Nisar Khan (80 KG), Mirwaiz Khan (91 KG).
Francisco Hernandez Roldan (Chief Coach) Arshad Hussain (Assistant coach), Waqar Maroof (Manager) will be the officials of the team.
GB Boxing and the Home Nations of Scotland, England and Wales have announced their line-ups for the forthcoming GB Amateur Boxing Championship, to be held at the Echo Arena Liverpool on 12 and 13 November 2010.
The GB Amateur Boxing Championship is a new competition to identify the best male and female amateur boxers in Great Britain with the Finals being televised live on the BBC’s red button.
The competition will pit the best from Scotland, England and Wales against current members of the GB Boxing Olympic Squad and create an opportunity for those that are not currently in the squad to force their way into contention for 2012.
The line-ups announced today, feature 10 medallists from September’s Commonwealth Games including England’s Simon Vallily and Tom Stalker who both claimed Gold in Delhi. They include 10 current national Amateur Boxing Association (ABA) Champions, five European Championship medallists and three World Championship medallists.
In the 60Kg category, there is an early opportunity for Scotland’s Josh Taylor to try and avenge the 11-3 defeat inflicted on him by England’s Tom Stalker in the recent Commonwealth Games final. It also features hotly-tipped Martin Ward from England who was identified by many observers as the best boxer on show in the English ABA Finals in May 2010.
At 56Kg, Welsh teen sensation Sean McGoldrick will be hoping to add to his Commonwealth Silver medal when he takes on the 2010 European Championship Silver medallist, Iain Weaver, and the 2008 European Champion, Luke Campbell.
Two more medallists from 2010’s European Championships feature at 52Kg where Andrew Selby from Wales is against Beijing Olympian, Khalid Yafai. Both are part of the GB Boxing squad, so the GB Championship will provide an opportunity for Selby to challenge Yafai’s status as the current number one ahead of the Olympic qualifying competitions in 2011.
The 81Kg category includes Welsh ABA Champion and Commonwealth bronze medallist Jermaine Asare against English ABA Champion Lawrence Osueke. They will be pitted against GB Boxing’s, Obed Mbwakango and Scotland’s Sean Finney.
One of the most hotly anticipated contests for the Liverpool crowd will be at 69Kg where two local favourites, Callum Smith and Anthony Fowler will compete. Although Smith is the current GB Boxing selection and recently won Silver at the Commonwealth Games he was defeated by Fowler en-route to his English ABA title in 2010.
75Kgs brings together two current ABA Champions and Commonwealth Games medallists in Wales’ Keiron Harding and GB Boxing’s Antony Ogogo. And at 91Kg, two former members of the GB Boxing squad, Stephen Simmons from Scotland and Danny Price of England will be hoping to force their way back into contention for 2012 when they come up against GB Boxing’s Commonwealth Gold sensation, Simon Vallily.
The women’s competition includes two current national ABA Champions and two World Silver medallists.
The 51Kg category features two-time World Silver medallist Nicola Adams, ABA Champion and fellow GB Boxing squad member, Nina Smith, and Lynsey Holdaway from Wales.
The 60Kg category will be hotly contested and brings together two closely matched members of the GB Boxing squad, Natasha Jonas and Amanda Coulson, along with Wales’s Becky Price.
Problems with form and fitness mean there are no candidates from England, Scotland and Wales to challenge, GB Boxing’s World Silver medallist, Savannah Marshall in the 75Kg category. Instead Marshall will compete in a non-title bout against an overseas opponent.
The man with responsibility for selecting and training the GB Boxing squad that will compete at the 2012 Olympics, Rob McCracken, Performance Director of the British Amateur Boxing Association (BABA) said: “This will be a very high quality tournament and reflects the huge depth of talent we have in amateur boxing in Great Britain at the present time. The success of all of the Home Nations at the Commonwealth Games means we can expect to see some great match-ups in every weight category.
“Staging this event in a large arena mean it will be the biggest crowd that most of the boxers will have competed in front of and will provide a good indication of who can handle the occasion and deliver a winning performance under intense pressure. It will have an influence on the make-up of the Olympic squad and is an opportunity for all of the competitors to showcase their skills and stake a claim to be part of the GB Boxing set-up as we build-up to 2012.”
The draw for the competition will be held in November. In those categories where there are only two or three competitors, some will receive a bye into the Final.
The Semi-finals will be held on Friday 12 November from 3.00pm (doors open 2.00pm). The Finals will be on Saturday 13 November from 7.30pm (doors open 6.30pm).
6,000 tickets will be made available for the event, priced £5 for children and £10 for adults. Tickets are on sale now and will be subject to a booking and handling fee. They can be purchased in person from the Echo Arena Liverpool box office, online at www.echoarena.com or by calling 0844 8000 400.
