Former world titleholders Kermit Cintron and Jason Sosa, as well as title challengers Mike Jones, Eric Hunter and Lajuan Simon highlight the Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame (PABHOF) class of 2025.
With local Lamont Roach Jr. set to fight Feargal McCrory on Friday in Washington, D.C., the DMV is back in boxing's spotlight. Read a selection of some of the more notable fights staged in the area over the years.
New decade, same fighting passion. Michelle 'Raging Babe' Rosado is set to take the promotional lead, returning to Philadelphia with the second installment of Raging Babe Events' "Philly Special" series. The show will take place March 27 at the 2300 Arena in South Philly, where the series' inaugural entry last February established—and still holds—the venue record for highest paid attendance (1,433) for a boxing event. Details are still coming in on the next edition of the series, which carries on the long-standing tradition of Philly's historical club show circuit and has already been met with a groundswell of anticipation. “Philly Special will showcase the type of fights that make Philadelphia a legendary fight town,” said Rosado. “Fighters that would rather be carried out than quit, and fights that are more about left hooks, and less about managers' checkbooks. Real fans, real fighters, real fights.”
Berchelt, Sosa Fight Photos Gallery - Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson - WBC super featherweight champion Miguel Berchelt (37-1, 33 KOs) beat down and stopped Jason Sosa (23-4-4, 16 KOs) in the fourth round. (photos by Mikey Williams)
Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson - WBC super featherweight champion Miguel Berchelt (37-1, 33 KOs) beat down and stopped Jason Sosa (23-4-4, 16 KOs) in the fourth round. Sosa came in on a three fight win streak after losing back to back fights to Yuriorkis Gamboa and Vasiliy Lomachenko.
Jason Sosa will step into the ring riding a three-fight winning streak after dropping two consecutives fights in 2017 and 2018 to Vasyl Lomachenko and Yuriorkis Gamboa. Miguel Berchelt, the man he’ll face Saturday at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif., is the WBC junior lightweight title holder and another step up in competition now that Sosa has recovered from his skid. The former 130-pound WBA titlist is eager to prove again his champion-caliber status.
By the time he suffered the second of back-to-back defeats, Jason Sosa expected to be written off as a former titlist who'd seen better days. It didn't matter that most experts had the former 130-pound titlist beating Yuriorkis Gamboa on a Nov. 2015 night where he was instead handed a majority decision defeat. The fact that no longer bore the resemblance of major threat in the division was enough to dismiss him as an afterthought.
Miguel Berchelt will look to defend his WBC junior lightweight title for the sixth time Saturday against Jason Sosa, but if you ask the Mexican fighter, he’s more interested in facing the best fighters more than unifying championships in the 130-pound division.
Berchelt, Sosa Weights Photos Gallery - With Mexico versus Puerto Rico in the headliner, there's plenty of room for drama in the ring. Miguel Berchelt and Jason Sosa kept it limited to fight night, as both easily made weight for their ESPN-televised junior lightweight title fight Saturday evening at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.
With Mexico versus Puerto Rico in the headliner, there's plenty of room for drama in the ring. Miguel Berchelt and Jason Sosa kept it limited to fight night, as both easily made weight for their ESPN-televised junior lightweight title fight Saturday evening at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.