
Marlon Harrington, Kenyan Valle both stop opponents inside a round
Marlon Harrington made short work of yet another opponent Thursday, blasting out Bryan Polaco at the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Marlon Harrington made short work of yet another opponent Thursday, blasting out Bryan Polaco at the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Dmitriy Salita wants to use Salita Promotions’ Big Time Boxing USA series to revive boxing in Detroit and to stage regular fights in New York. Ardreal Holmes Jr’s victory over Marlon Harrington at Detroit’s Wayne State Fieldhouse on February 20 represented the start of their broadcast agreement with DAZN, and Salita, who once fought out of the city’s revered Kronk gym, hopes that it will be the first of many.

Salita Promotions will launch the inaugural “Big Time Boxing USA” event streaming live on DAZN with a night of fights on Tuesday, February 20 headlined by a 10-round all-Michigan showdown as Flint’s Ardreal Holmes Jr. defends his USBA super welterweight championship against Detroit’s Marlon Harrington topping a card from Wayne State Fieldhouse in Detroit.

Maricela Cornejo will enter the ring at the lightest official weight of her career for a short-notice assignment against one of the best women’s boxers in history. The 36-year-old middleweight was 155 pounds during Friday’s weigh-in, exactly five pounds lighter than her weight for each of her past three starts. Her latest trip to the scales comes ahead of her challenge of three-division and reigning undisputed middleweight champion and pound-for-pound queen Claressa Shields, who was 159.6 pounds for their DAZN main event Saturday from Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey – Marquis Taylor got credit for his work this time around. Eight months after his dubious draw with Paul Kroll, the junior middleweight won an eight-round unanimous decision over previously undefeated Detroit native Marlon Harrington on Friday night. Judges Jacklyn Atkins (79-73), Anthony Lundy (80-72) and Joseph Pasquale (79-73) all scored their fight for Taylor by wide distances.

Steen, Agbeko ShoBox Weights Photos Gallery - Cleveland’s fast-rising blue-chip prospect Isaiah Steen (16-0, 12 KOs) and dangerous power-puncher Sena Agbeko (26-2, 21 KOs), representing Nashville, Tenn., both made weight at Thursday’s official weigh-in a day ahead of their 10-round super middleweight main event on SHOBOX: The New Generation tomorrow night, Friday, October 21 live on SHOWTIME as the prospect developmental series returns to Bally’s Atlantic City Casino & Resort, the site of the first SHOBOX® 21 years ago, for the second time in two months. (photos by Stephanie Trapp)

As BoxingScene.com previously reported, blue chip prospect and top-ten ranked light heavyweight Ali Izmailov will face the toughest test of his young career when he takes on former world title challenger Radivoje “Hot Rod” Kalajdzic on Friday, October 21 live on SHOWTIME at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT in the latest edition of SHOBOX: The New Generation. The telecast features five undefeated prospects and six fighters with a combined record of 88-2 and returns to Bally’s Atlantic City Hotel & Casino, site of the first SHOBOX 21 years ago for the second show in as many months.

Emerging light heavyweight Ali Izmailov is set to take what, at least on paper, appears to be his toughest test October 21. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the unbeaten Russian contender will meet Radivoje “Hot Rod” Kalajdzic in a 10-round main event Showtime will televise from Bally’s Grand Ballroom in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Izmailov-Kalajdzic

#11-rated heavyweight Otto Wallin of Sweden cruised to a clear and workmanlike unanimous 10-round decision over disappointed hometown hopeful Rydell Booker tonight in the main event of Salita Promotions’ Detroit Brawl event in the Lincoln Ballroom of the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan.

On Thursday, May 26, to kickoff Memorial Day Weekend festivities, Salita Promotions returns for a very special weekday edition of their highly successful Detroit Brawl series of professional boxing events in the Lincoln Ballroom of the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, MI.