{"id":50870,"date":"2015-02-13T02:13:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T08:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50870"},"modified":"2015-02-13T02:13:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T08:13:40","slug":"cuban-amateur-star-marcos-forestal-turns-pro-tonight-breaking-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50870","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Amateur Star Marcos Forestal Turns Pro Tonight &#8211; Breaking Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50870 \" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50870 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-50871 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/99cda881-2f2a-43e2-a93e-a35fb6a5d661.jpg\" alt=\"99cda881-2f2a-43e2-a93e-a35fb6a5d661\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>(l-R) &#8211; Marcos Forestal &amp; trainer Joe Goossen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celebrated Cuban amateur boxer Marcos Forestal will make his professional debut tomorrow night (Fri., Feb. 13) in a four-round super bantamweight bout against veteran Ignac &#8220;The Test&#8221; Kassai at 5 Star Banquet Hall in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n<p>A three-time Cuban National champion, the 25-year-old Forestal defeated 2012 Olympic gold medalist Robeisy Rameriez 14 months ago in a sensational national championship final.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fighting as a semi-pro in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) for undefeated 2014 team champion Cuba Domadores, Forestal was unbeaten in three WSB matches before defecting to the United States last April.<\/p>\n<p>Forestal signed a contract this past October with Ireland-based, International boxing manager Gary Hyde, president of Nowhere2Hyde Management. Hyde also manages present, past and future world champions such as World Boxing Association (WBA) Super &amp; World Boxing Organization (WBO) super bantamweight champion and two-time Cuban Olympic gold medalist, Guillermo &#8220;The Jackal&#8221; Rigondeaux (15-0, 10 KOs), WBA Interim cruiserweight champion Youri &#8220;El Toro&#8221; Kalenga (21-1, 14 KOs), former WBO middleweight champion and current International Boxing Federation (IBF) No. 1 mandatory contender Hassan N&#8217;Dam N&#8217;Jikam (31-1, 18 KOs), and world amateur champion Blagoy Naydenov.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marcos Forestal is an excellent young fighter who has an action-packed style,&#8221; Hyde said. &#8220;He has what it takes to become world champion. We couldn&#8217;t find a US-based opponent to fight Marcos because they said he was another Rigondeaux and Olympic champion. While he beat an Olympic champion, Marcus wasn&#8217;t an Olympian. We flew in his opponent from Hungary. Kasai is a 56-fight veteran who has fought some of the top Europeans like IBF super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton, world title challengers Martin Ward, Bedak Zsolt and<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Miskirtchian, and former European champ Anthony Settoul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Forestal is a 5&#8242; 8&#8243; southpaw who will campaign in the 122-pound super bantamweight division, the same weight class his fellow countryman and stablemate Rigondeaux rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guillermo Rigondeaux is a super champion and in Cuba I looked up to him like his younger brother,&#8221; Forestal added. &#8220;He has dominated the super bantamweight division and I will soon join him at the top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Living in Los Angeles and trained there by Joe Goossen, Forestal&#8217;s second pro fight is tentatively scheduled for March 6 in nearby Glendale, California.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/imagez\/rsrad.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(l-R) &#8211; Marcos Forestal &amp; trainer Joe Goossen Celebrated Cuban amateur boxer Marcos Forestal will make his professional debut tomorrow night (Fri., Feb. 13) in a four-round super bantamweight bout against veteran Ignac &#8220;The Test&#8221; Kassai at 5 Star Banquet Hall in Queens, New York. A three-time Cuban National champion, the 25-year-old Forestal defeated 2012 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12121],"class_list":["post-50870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-cuban-amateur-star-marcos-forestal-turns-pro-tonight-breaking-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50870","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=50870"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}