Boxing Returns Saturday Night time At Tropicana Atlantic Metropolis, Tickets on Sale Now
Skilled boxing is making a triumphant return to the Boardwalk in Atlantic Metropolis on Saturday, Might 11
After staging profitable membership reveals within the Broadway district of New York Metropolis for the final 12 months and a half, Larry Goldberg of Boxing Insider Promotions is coming again to his hometown. The scene is the Tropicana Resort & On line casino, the place the showroom hosts a particular card that options among the most interesting younger expertise in New Jersey, New York and past.
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Junior middleweight JUSTIN FIGUEROA (8-0, 6 KO’s) is an Atlantic Metropolis product, who’s well-known to the general public for his exploits not solely in boxing however in different sports activities as effectively, notably in soccer, the place he starred at Holy Spirit Excessive College and harbored ideas of taking part in for a Division I program. Justin can be an lively member of the Atlantic Metropolis Seashore Patrol.
As Figueroa progresses by means of the professional ranks, he intends, in his personal phrases, to “put Atlantic Metropolis on my again.”
Figueroa’s Might 11 opponent within the six-round battle is the very powerful Antoni Armas from Maracay, Venezuela.
Junior featherweight JOHN LEONARDO (10-1-1, 4 KO’s) hails from Manalapan Township. He takes on FRANK GONZALEZ (12-5, 6 KO’s), who has been that distance in every of his final two fights. Gonzalez, who fights out of the Tampa Bay space, as soon as competed for the WBO Latino belt in addition to the WBA Fedecentro title within the bantamweight class.
As well as, legendary former heavyweight champion LARRY HOLMES can be available to fulfill and greet followers on the Might 11 present.
Listed below are the opposite bouts on the present:
8 Rounds — Welterweights
AVIOUS GRIFFIN (13-0, 12 KO’s), Chattanooga, TN vs. LESTHER ESPINO (8-5, 6 KO’s), Nicaragua
6 Rounds — Jr. Middleweights
DWYKE FLEMMINGS (6-0, 6 KO’s), Paterson, NJ vs. JONATHON HAMPTON (3-4, 1 KO) Gary, Indiana
4 Rounds — Heavyweights
PRYCE TAYLOR (3-0, 2 KO’s), Brooklyn vs. LAWRENCE KING JR. (2-1,1 KO), Rochester, NY
4 Rounds — Middleweights
4 Rounds — Lightweights
JACOB SOLIS (3-0, 3 KO’s), New York, NY vs. BRANDON MARTINEZ (1-3, 1 KO), Tucson, AZ
JASON CASTANON (`1-0, 1 KO), Brooklyn, NY vs. KAMARI BURNSIDE (1-0, 0 KO), Las Vegas, Nevada.
4 Rounds — Lightweights
KOBY WILLIAMS (professional debut) Brooklyn, New York vs. Kevin Hicks 1-2, 1 KO) Tazewell, Virginia That is the primary skilled boxing present on the Tropicana in seven years. So that you had higher imagine will probably be a festive ambiance.
That is the primary skilled boxing present on the Tropicana in seven years. So that you had higher imagine will probably be a festive ambiance.
Tickets are priced at $60, $100, $150 and $200, and can be found by means of TicketMaster (
This occasion may also stream reside and freed from cost at Movies.BoxingInsider.com with Henry Deleon and Randy Gordon on Commentary.
