{"id":104219,"date":"2021-06-01T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104219"},"modified":"2021-06-01T13:19:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:19:35","slug":"breakout-boxing-card-on-june-26th-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104219","title":{"rendered":"Breakout Boxing Card on June 26th &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- RSR AD 1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"7759247395\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104219\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104219\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-104220 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mail-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mail-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mail-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mail-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mail.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>The main event on the June 26th \u201cBreakout\u201d card, presented by Granite Chin Promotions, matches two New England heavyweights heading in opposite directions, Steve \u201cThe Gentle Giant\u201d Vukosa (13-1, 5 KOs) and \u201cFly\u201d Mike Marshall (5-1, 4 KOs).<\/p>\n<p>The evening card of another Granite Chin day-night doubleheader (separate admissions) is headlined by the 10-round main event for the vacant NABA United States Heavyweight Championship between Vukosa (13-1, 5 KOs) who will possibly be fighting for the final time \u2013 win, lose or draw &#8212; and reigning New England heavyweight champion Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>Vukosa, fighting of out Quincy, MA, is a former WBC U.S. Heavyweight Champion, which he captured in 2019 when he won an 8-round unanimous decision against Joe Cusumano (18-2, 16 KOs). During his 20-year pro boxing career, Vukosa\u2019s gained invaluable experience sparring at the famed Wild Card Boxing gym in Los Angeles as a sparring partner for world champions James Toney, Evander Holyfield and Wladimir Klitschko. He\u2019s also driven a bus for the past 15 years for the Mass Bay Transportation Authority, starting at 4 p.m. and finishing around 2 a.m., after which he does his run in. But he\u2019s now 44 with a wife and three children and his boxing clock is ticking.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still fighting because I love it,\u201d Vukosa explained. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to walk away from something you\u2019re good at. This one fight and it could be the end. My wife will be happy. My body is starting to fall apart: hands, back and knees. They\u2019ve been killing me. I used to be quick and fast, now I\u2019m slow. I just want to have a good fight, win, or lose, but I want to win. I really enjoyed by days at Wild Card, those sparring sessions were like real fights, and my amateur days with trainer Jimmy Farrell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw my opponent when he won the New England title, I was impressed. (promoter) Chris (Traietti) called asking if I\u2019d fight him, I accepted because I like to fight and a good challenge. I\u2019m looking forward to the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Marshall, fighting out of Danbury, CT, has won his last two fights, both on Granite Chin shows at the same venue as his upcoming match with Vukosa, including his N.E. title-winning performance last November against Justin \u201cCrazy Train\u201d Rolfe. Marshall isn\u2019t looking at his opponent as over the hill because of Vukosa\u2019s advance age, but he does plan to make a statement that, hopefully, will get him positive exposure outside of New England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he\u2019s a veteran pugilist, a pupil of Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach, who was an awesome fighter in his own right,\u201d Marshall remarked. \u201cThis is boxing, anything can happen. My job is to prepare for anything. I\u2019ve had the best quality sparring in house with the No. 1 amateur heavyweight, Fernely Felix, Jr. My team works very hard, My manger, A.J. Galante, asked me to be sharper in my last fight (3-round KO of Tracey Johnson this past April), so I did what he asked me to do. My cornerman Austin Ampeoquio keeps me sharp with the mitts, and my head coaches David McDonough and Bennie \u2018The Jet\u2019 Little do a good job pushing me as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Steve comes to fight and I\u2019m looking forward to an exciting night of boxing. We are two warriors going toe-to-toe in the ring, putting on a show for boxing fans who really enjoy the sport of boxing, not this YouTube celebrity garbage that\u2019s going on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteve ran into some bad luck after the Cusumano win,\u201d Granite Chin president Chris Traietti commented. \u201cA few fights fell through, then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. We literally had a fight in Germany fall out the day we were set to leave for the airport. After that we lost a lot of the steam from the Cusamano fight and kind of had to reassess. He picked up a tune-up fight a few months ago, but we now have to either regain some momentum by winning a fight like this or finally have Steve ride off into the sunset. This fight with Marshall will be no picnic. He has burst upon the local scene with some impressive performances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike many coming to the fight, I have no idea how this fight shakes out, which makes for a great main event. One thing I will say, despite what Steve like to make people believe, in the event he wins this fight, it won\u2019t be his final fight. Zero chance of that! If Marshall wins, I have no doubt he will get a television fight in the very near future on a major network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 8-round co-featured event, former N.E. heavyweight champion Rolfe (5-2-1, 4 KOs), of Fairfield, ME, will takes on Mexican challenger Jose Humberto \u201cOlimpico\u201d Corral (20-26, 12 KOs) for the vacant ABF Atlantic heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>New England welterweight champion Mike \u201cBad Man\u201d Ohan, Jr. (12-1, 6 KOs), fighting out of Holbrook, MA, will defend his title in an 8-round match against upset-minded Tyrone \u201cHands of Stone\u201d Luckey (13-14-4 (9 KOs).<\/p>\n<p>Undefeated Holyoke, MA welterweight Denzel \u201cDouble Impact\u201d Whitley (4-0, 3 KOs) will be in his first scheduled 6-rounder versus Anthony Andreozzi (0-1), of Swansea, MA. Indianapolis junior welterweight Dewayne Wisdom will be in his 66th pro fight against Nelson \u201cChino\u201d Perez (2-0, 2 KOs) in a 6-rounder.<\/p>\n<p>Also slated to be in action on the undercard, all in 4-round bouts, is Weymouth, MA welterweight Eric \u201cGladiator\u201d Goff (1-0) vs. Aquilando Brandao (0-3), Holyoke junior middleweight Carlos Abel Castillo (1-0, 1 KO) vs. Jay Gregory (0-3), Woburn, MA middleweight Julien \u201cBlack Dragon\u201d Baptiste (2-0, 2 KOs) vs. Rodrigo Almeida (2-10, 2 KOs), Framingham, MA light heavyweight Saul \u201cSpider\u201d Almeida (0-13-4) vs. pro-debuting Steve Sumpter, Lawrence, MA junior lightweight Kevin Rodriguez (0-1) faces Ryan Venable (2-4), undefeated Puerto Rican super middleweight Jelame Garcia (7-0, 6 KOs) vs. Larry \u201cSlo Mo\u201d Smith (12-47-2, 8 KOs), and Worcester\u2019s (MA) 3-time New England Golden Gloves champion Demek \u201cHightower\u201d Edmonds (1-0, 1 KO) vs. pro-debuting Wallace Nass Silva.<\/p>\n<p>The pro segment of the afternoon\u2019s Pro-Am card will be headlined by ABF Atlantic Cruiserweight Champion Yan \u201cWild Thing\u201d Pellerin (11-1, 5 KOs) defending his title against Lewiston, ME challenger Cristiano Pedro, fighting out by way of Angola, in an 8-round fight.<\/p>\n<p>Other pro fights, all 4-rounders, include Canadian heavyweight Alexis Barriere (1-0, 1 KO) vs. New York\u2019s pro-debuting Andrew Nolan, Methuen (MA), light heavyweight Andrew Perez in his pro debut vs. Jesus Cintron (1-18-2), Springfield (MA) super lightweight Ian \u201cDinamite\u201d Garcia (0-0-1) vs. Andy Aiello (1-4-1), of Bridgewater, MA, New York light heavyweight Scott Lampert (1-2, 1 KO) vs. Yhago Goncalves (0-3), of Portsmouth (ME) by way of Brazil, and Springfield\u2019s pro-debuting super middleweight Laurent Humes vs.pro-debuting Philipe Martins, of Marlborough, MA.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural \u201cGranite Chin Invitational\u201d tournament, pitting some of the best amateur boxers in New England in the semifinals round, in the USA Boxing-sanctioned event during the afternoon portion of the day-night doubleheader. The semifinals winners will advance to the tournament\u2019s championship final August 28th at New England Sports Center.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the top N.E. amateur boxers expected to compete include 2021 USA National Championships gold medalist Arika Skoog, the 2-time N.E. Golden Gloves champion out of Newton (MA); 2-time N.E. Golden Gloves champion Tashawn Ward, a featherweight from Providence (RI); and middleweights James Maner, 2019 N.E. Golden Gloves champion from Providence, and 2-time N.E. Golden Gloves champion Mike Fontanez, of Nashua (N.H).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main event on the June 26th \u201cBreakout\u201d card, presented by Granite Chin Promotions, matches two New England heavyweights heading in opposite directions, Steve \u201cThe Gentle Giant\u201d Vukosa (13-1, 5 KOs) and \u201cFly\u201d Mike Marshall (5-1, 4 KOs). The evening card of another Granite Chin day-night doubleheader (separate admissions) is headlined by the 10-round main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26685],"class_list":["post-104219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-breakout-boxing-card-on-june-26th-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104219"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}