{"id":44979,"date":"2011-07-06T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12492"},"modified":"2011-07-06T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:57:06","slug":"peter-kid-chocolate-quillin-on-a-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=44979","title":{"rendered":"Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin on a MISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>From the mean streets of Grand Rapids to living in New York and now Hollywood, undefeated middleweight prospect Peter \u201cKid Chocolate\u201d Quillin is on the verge of boxing greatness, and is being talked about in boxing circles as being a fighter ready for a high-profile world title fight within ayear.<\/p>\n

Coming off of an explosive third-round destruction of former world title challenger Jesse Brinkley this past April for the USBO super middleweight title, Quillin (24-0, 18 KOs) will return to compete in his natural middleweight division in an old fashioned throw-down with veteran \u201cMarvelous\u201d Tarvis Simms (27-1-1, 11 KOs) in 10-round bout on the July 23 Amir Khan vs. Zab Judah undercard at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Quillin-Simms will be fought on the off-television portion of the event, while Khan vs. Judah headlines on HBO. \u201cA fight is a fight and my time will come,\u201d IBF # 5 rated Quillin said.\u201cI put in the same effort to put on an impressive winning performance,\u201d IBF #5 rated Quillin said. \u201cThe pressure last camp was to see how I would beat Brinkley. This time it\u2019s Tarvis Simms and I\u2019m training to destroy him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m never in a comfortable situation because, in boxing, you can always lose. I figure, why put in anything less than maximum effort in training?I\u2019m trying to prove that I\u2019m an elite, top-10 fighter and, even when I win a world title, I\u2019m always going to be a hungry fighter because of where I come from.After my last fight I went right back in the Wild Card Gym training with Freddie Roach and Eric Brown.I\u2019ve already started back training in the torture chamber (with strength-and-conditioning coach Brad Bose at Anatomi Gym in Santa Monica).\u201d<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old Simms is 12 years older than Quillin and the twin brother of two-time World Junior Middleweight Champion Travis Simms. His only loss was a 10-round decision to Allan Green two years ago, when he was a late replacement fighting for the first time in 14 months.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m looking for against Simms is rounds,\u201d Quillin explained.\u201cMy last three fights were all four rounds or less.I had a first-round knockout in Quebec, followed by a fourth-round TKO, and then stopped a world title challenger in the third. Tarvis is 27-1-1 but he\u2019s stepping-up to fight me, not the other way around. I met him and he\u2019s a cool guy. I\u2019m hoping that he\u2019s preparing as hard as me to put in the rounds and showcase his talent. If he does, it will be an entertaining fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

No boxer appreciates being active more than \u201cKid Chocolate,\u201d who was on the shelf for 18 months (2008-2010) with a broken hand, hairline fracture of his eye socket and emergency appendectomy.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoxing isn\u2019t a job for me because I love it,\u201d Quillin remarked.\u201cI want to stay busy and active and I\u2019m happy Golden Boy got me right back in the ring. I train hard, five hours a day, six days a week and that doesn\u2019t include all of the running I do.I\u2019m like old-time boxers who liked to fight all the time.I want to bring that back to boxing because fans appreciate and enjoy it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a street kid growing up in Grand Rapids. I never thought that I\u2019d be anything in life.I learned from boxing that anything I do, I need to fight for it, in or out of the ring. That\u2019s what gave me the courage to move to Brooklyn and then toCalifornia.I\u2019ve been to so many different places because of boxing.I\u2019m hungry to make it big. Boxing really saved my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKid Chocolate\u201d is continuing on his mission for excellence.<\/p>\n

For more information about Peter \u201cKid Chocolate\u201d Quillin go online to www.TheKidChocolate.com or follow him on Twitter @\/Kid Chocolate.<\/p>\n

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From the mean streets of Grand Rapids to living in New York and now Hollywood, undefeated middleweight prospect Peter \u201cKid Chocolate\u201d Quillin is on the verge of boxing greatness, and is being talked about in boxing circles as being a fighter ready for a high-profile world title fight within ayear. Coming off of an explosive […]<\/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":[3387],"class_list":["post-44979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-peter-kid-chocolate-quillin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44979","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=44979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}