{"id":16327,"date":"2011-09-28T15:26:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T19:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16327"},"modified":"2011-09-28T15:26:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T19:26:23","slug":"nick-casal-michael-anderson-set-for-war-on-october-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16327","title":{"rendered":"Nick Casal – Michael Anderson Set for WAR on October 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Buffalo welterweight Nick \u201cHands of Gold\u201d Casal continues his journey back to boxing prominence October 15 against undefeated prospect Michael \u201cSlick\u201d Anderson on the non-televised portion of the Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson pay-per-view event at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Casal (21-4-1, 16 KOs) was a highly-decorated amateur who captured gold medals at the 2002 U.S. National Junior Championships and the Sweden Box-Cup for Under-19 boxers. In 2003, Nick reached the quarterfinals of the National Golden Gloves Tournament, defeating Anthony Dirrell in the process, before losing to current world champion, Andre Berto. Casal also won a bronze medal at the 2004 U.S. Championships but he had to drop out of the competition with a hand injury.<\/p>\n

In 2004, Casal turned pro and he was unbeaten in his first 17 pro bouts, including a pair of draws. Nick extended current WBC Silver champion Antonio \u201cTony\u201d DeMarco, the former WBC Interim light titlist, the full 10 rounds in 2002, albeit in a losing effort (94-96, 93-93, 97-93) that demonstrated his vast potential. Casal has won his last three fights, including a third-round technical knockout of Martin Tucker this past April in his Boxing 360 debut.<\/p>\n

Casal, however, damaged his hand and he has been out of action since. His fight against Andersson was supposed to be September 30 on ShoBox, before being switched to Oct. 15. \u201cFighting on ShoBox would have given me more exposure but the Hopkins-Dawson show is much bigger with a larger audience,\u201d said Casal who is training in Las Vegas. \u201cI hurt my hand a little bit in my last fight but it\u2019s now 100-percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old Anderson (11-0-1, 9 KOs), fighting out of Newark, hasn\u2019t fought anybody near Casal\u2019s level of competition. If Anderson believes he\u2019s going to use Casal as a stepping-stone, according to Nick, he\u2019s got another thing coming. \u201cI\u2019m going to use him as a stepping-stone,\u201dCasal insisted. \u201cHe has no experience and I\u2019m coming for a win. I don\u2019t know anything about him but, after the first round, I\u2019ll know what to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn another year, I hope to be fighting for a world title. I beat both Dirrells (Andre and Anthony), Berto and Vanes Martirosyan in the amateurs. I fought at 156 as an amateur and moved down to fight at 140 as a pro. Some of them went up in weight and won world titles. I just need a couple of more fights to be ready for a world title shot. I turned pro when I was 18 \u2013 maybe a little early \u2013 but I\u2019m only 25 with a lot of fights left in me. I had a lot of growing up to do and now\u2019s the time to make something happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casal\u2019s promoter, Boxing 360 founder and CEO Mario Yagobi, believes his upcoming fight is a tremendous opportunity for Nick. \u201cNick has to step-up and, if he passes this test, it\u2019s on to bigger and better things for him. This is a great opportunity. I think he\u2019s up to it. In the past he has won better challenges in bigger fights. I believe he has the talent and heart to take him to the top. He made the commitment to train in Las Vegas, away from his home in Buffalo, in order to get better sparring. He\u2019s working hard and I know he\u2019ll be ready October 15th.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casal\u2019s talented Boxing 360 stable-mate, undefeated middleweight prospect DonYil Livingston (5-0-1, 3 KOs), will also be in action on the Oct. 15thHopkins-Dawson undercard against unbeaten Kurtiss Colvin (6-0, 5 KOs) in a six-round bout.<\/p>\n

Other members of Boxing 360\u2019s stable include IBF World Light Junior Lightweight Champion Amanda \u201cThe Real Deal\u201d Serrano, USBA heavyweight champion Maurice Sugar Moe\u201d Harris, WBC #5 super bantamweight Leon\u201cHurry Up\u201d Moore, former IBF super middleweight champion Alejandro \u201cNaco\u201dBerrio, unbeaten welterweight prospect Vitaliy \u201cDemyan\u201d Demyanenko, WBC Caribbean& NY State super middleweight champion Lennox \u201c2 Sharpe\u201d Allen, Dominican lightweight champion Eudy \u201cAK47\u201d Bernardo, KO king Tyrone Brunson, Mike Mollo, Joel Diaz Jr., and \u201cKing\u201d David Estrada.<\/p>\n

Go to www.Boxing360.comfor more information about Casal, Boxing 360 or any of its other fighters as well as scheduled events.
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Buffalo welterweight Nick \u201cHands of Gold\u201d Casal continues his journey back to boxing prominence October 15 against undefeated prospect Michael \u201cSlick\u201d Anderson on the non-televised portion of the Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson pay-per-view event at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. Casal (21-4-1, 16 KOs) was a highly-decorated amateur who captured gold medals at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,5624],"class_list":["post-16327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-nick-casal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327","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=16327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}