Kenneth Sims Jr.: record, next fight and profile →
“Tsumani” Samuel Teah hurt Kenneth Sims Jr. with left-right combinations in the second and fourth and nearly finished him at the bell ending the sixth of Friday night’s eight-round unanimous decision before his partisan hometown fans at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia on ShoBox: The New Generation on Showtime.
Ennis, Serrano Weights ShoBox Photos Gallery - One of boxing’s top prospects, undefeated welterweight Jaron Ennis and veteran Raymond Serrano made weight just a day before their ShoBox: The New Generation 10-round main event that headlines a tripleheader live on SHOWTIME (9:35 p.m. ET/PT) from 2300 Arena in Philadelphia. The 21-year-old Ennis (21-0, 19 KOs) returns for his second ShoBox challenge of 2018 against Serrano (24-5, 10 KOs) in a battle of Philadelphia fighters facing off in their hometown.
Highly touted unbeaten welterweight prospect Jaron Ennis will square off against 11-year professional Raymond Serrano in a Philadelphia vs. Philadelphia 10-round bout in the main event of ShoBox: The New Generation, Friday, November 16 live on SHOWTIME® at 9:35 p.m. ET/PT from 2300 Arena in Philadelphia.
John Correa and Jonathan Lopez will face Mexican opponents in the next edition of "A Puno Limpio", which will feature Bernard "Bimbo" Lebron and Antonio Sanchez, in their rematch, on October 26 at the Ruben Zayas Montañez Coliseum in Trujillo Alto, in a presentation of PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP) in association with Spartan Boxing, which will be broadcast by Wapa Deportes.
Kenneth Sims Jr.’s return from his first defeat and subsequent elbow surgery didn’t turn out as he had hoped. Chicago’s Sims and Cleveland’s Montana Love battled to a draw in an eight-round junior welterweight fight Friday night. One judge scored their back-and-forth fight for Sims, 77-75, another had it 77-75 for Love and the third judge scored the action even (76-76).
Ennis vs. Alvarez - Undefeated welterweight prospect Jaron Ennis and fellow unbeaten Armando Alvarez made weight on Thursday for their 10-round main event matchup tomorrow/Friday on ShoBox: The New Generation live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT) from WinnaVegas Casino in Sloan, Iowa.
Philadelphia’s Ennis (20-0, 18 KOs) has knocked out 10 consecutive opponents and was the 2015 National Golden Gloves Champion before turning professional in 2016. The 20-year-old former amateur standout will face his first undefeated opponent in Alvarez (18-0, 12 KOs), a native of the Florida Keys who has knocked out six of his last seven opponents.
Ivan Baranchyk’s fight Friday night wasn’t nearly as grueling as his previous appearance in the “ShoBox” series. The Russian-born Baranchyk beat Philadelphia southpaw Keenan Smith pretty comfortably in their eight-round bout in Miami, Oklahoma. All three judges – Don Griffin (80-71), Jerry Griffin (78-73) and Brett Miller (79-72) – scored their junior welterweight fight for Baranchyk by large margins.
Kenneth Sims Jr. may not have known how good a boxer he was as he compiled win after win on the amateur circuit, but soon, the hardware told the tale, as he began to win too many trophies to keep at home in Chicago. “I started giving them away to my cousins and my grandmother as I got older,” he laughs. “I kept some of them, but a lot of them I gave away. Once I started winning nationals and getting the belts they give out, and the medals, I started giving the trophies away.”
Undefeated super lightweights Keenan Smith and Ivan Baranchyk officially made weight on Thursday, one day before they headline a quadrupleheader tomorrow/Friday on ShoBox: The New Generation live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from Buffalo Run Casino & Resort in Miami, Okla.