Joe Smith Jr. headlines Star Boxing’s Rockin’ Fights 50
Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing will rejoice the fiftieth Occasion Anniversary of its acclaimed Rockin’ Fights sequence on Thursday, February 13 at The Paramount in Huntington, New York.
Over a 14-year interval, Star Boxing has promoted the sequence to develop quite a few world champions and high contenders whereas offering the perfect and longest working sold-out boxing sequence within the tri-state space.
Other than the 50 exhibits on this Rockin’ Fights sequence, Star Boxing has been the longest-running promoter in New York, having been constantly offering skilled boxing in New York for over 30 years. Having promoted over 500 exhibits and 1000’s of boxers, its CEO, Joe DeGuardia is taken into account the OG of New York boxing.
“It’s been a really rewarding fourteen years of selling world class fights right here at the perfect combat membership in New York” mentioned Joe DeGuardia, President and CEO of Star Boxing. “I’m very proud that world champions akin to Joe Smith Jr., Chris Algieri and Demetrius Andrade and quite a few world ranked contenders have been developed and fought many instances on this sequence.”
“Lots of the loyal followers within the space come to each present and that has validated our mission to supply a terrific evening of fights and leisure. Our fiftieth Occasion Anniversary is an enormous benchmark for us and we sit up for persevering with the sequence at The Paramount within the years forward.”
Headlining Star Boxing’s Rockin’ Fights 50, former WBO Gentle Heavyweight World Champion Joe Smith Jr. (28-5, 22 KOs), of Lengthy Island, will make his extremely anticipated return to The Paramount in a 10-round cruiserweight combat towards an opponent to be introduced.
Combating 4 earlier instances on the venue, Smith Jr. scored show-stopping knockouts with every look in entrance of his large, loyal fan base. Together with his moniker of ‘The Frequent Man’ resonating with boxing followers everywhere in the nation and turning into one of many sport’s hottest fighters the final eight years, Smith Jr. earned his world title with a dominating choice over Maxim Vlasov on April 10, 2021.
Smith Jr.’s profession has been outstanding, and features a knockout victory over boxing legend Bernard Hopkins, in an HBO basic, knocking Hopkins out of the ring in turning into the one man to cease the legend in his whole profession.
As well as, Smith has additionally defeated high contenders Jesse Hart, Andrzej Fonfara and Eleider Alvarez in world title eliminators and has fought a number of world champions together with Dmitry Bivol, Zurdo Ramirez and Artur Beterbiev, which was a unification match.
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Undefeated junior middleweight prospect Micky Scala, (11-0, 6 KOs), of Mesa, AZ returns to The Paramount in a scheduled eight spherical towards Victor Toney, (8-3-1, 6 KOs), of Youngstown, OH.
Scala impressed in his debut at The Paramount on November 23, 2024 with a shut-out six spherical choice over battle-tested veteran Luis Caraballo Ramos.
A cousin of boxing legend James Toney, Victor appears to begin one other profitable streak after a hotly contested conflict with undefeated prospect Jordan Panthen on June 20, 2024.
Additionally featured at Rockin’ Fights 50 in an eight-round tremendous light-weight conflict of thrilling Dominican fighters, Yan Carlos Perez, (4-0, 2 KOs), of Guaricano, D.R. faces Yeuri ‘Dinamita’ Andujar (7-6-1, 4 KOs), of San Cristobal, D.R.
Combating at The Paramount on Rockin’ Fights 48, Perez defeated Ronny Reyes over six rounds in a unanimous choice victory. Most just lately he was victorious on December 19, 2024 profitable an eight-round choice over Jose Santoya in Santo Domingo, D.R.
At present driving a two-fight profitable streak, Andujar knocked out Christian Otero within the fourth spherical on December 16, 2023 in New York Metropolis, following up with a six-round choice over Ronny Reyes at The Paramount on Could 11, 2024.
Combating in a 4 spherical welterweight bout, ‘King’ David Malul, (2-0, 2 KOs), of Queens, NY battles Shaquille Dashing, (0-1), of Lakeside, FL. The hard-hitting Malul has rapidly impressed followers at The Paramount along with his knockout energy.
Making his professional debut on September 14, 2024, he stopped Lucien Hannah within the opening stanza after being dropped himself twice in a candidate for spherical of the yr. Following up on November 23, 2024, Malul halted Zachary Davis within the third stanza.
German gentle heavyweight Granit Stein, (18-1-1, 10 KOs), will make his debut at The Paramount in a scheduled eight-rounder towards an opponent to be introduced. Beforehand undefeated, Stein appears to bounce again from a hotly contested cut up choice loss to Anthony Holloway on December 6, 2024 in Queens, NY, his first combat in the US.
In a extremely anticipated battle of undefeated junior lightweights, ‘G.I.’ Joe Elzey, (3-0, 1 KOs), of the Bronx, NY faces 18-year-old Jordy Suarez Gonzalez, (1-0, 1 KO), of Nashville, TN. Elzey returns to motion following a 4 spherical unanimous choice over beforehand undefeated Erick Perez at The Paramount.
Tickets for Star Boxing’s Rockin’ Fights 50 priced at $200 (Ringside A), $150 (Ringside B, Loge A),
$125 (Ringside C and D, Stage), $100 (Loge B,C,D), $75 (Mezzanine 1and 2) and $50 (Skybar) could also be bought at Ticketmaster or through Star Boxing www.StarBoxing.com. The Paramount is positioned at 370 New York Ave., Huntington, NY 11743. Doorways will open on the evening of the occasion at 6:30 p.m. with the primary bell at 7:30 p.m.
