Brick City Boxing

PROVIDENCE (February 21, 2008) – World super middleweight challenger “The Pride of Providence” Peter Manfredo, Jr. returns to the ring March 14, headlining “Rumble at the River,” against Shane “The Irish Hitman” Benfield, in an Italian-Irish themed pro boxing show at Twin River Events Center in Lincoln, Rhode Island.

Jaime Clampitt, Jimmy Burchfield & Peter Manfredo, Jr.

“Rumble at the River,” part of “The Budweiser Night at the Fights” series at Twin River, is promoted by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc., in association with Twin River, Budweiser and Tournament of Contenders.

Manfredo (28-5, 13 KOs), star of The Contender I television reality series, fights Benfield (17-1, 9 KOs) in the 10-round main event. Coming off of a 10-round loss by decision to former world champion Jeff Lacy on the Mayweather-Hatton pay-per-view card, Peter hopes to rebound against Benfield, who dropped a 12-round decision in his last action to DeAndrey Abron for the NABO belt that Manfredo once held.

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At Madison Square Garden this afternoon: Sultan Ibragimov, the WBO heavyweight titlist, weighed in first, tipping the scales at 219 pounds. Wladimir Klitschko, the IBF heavyweight belt holder, was next on the scale, and his weight was 238 pounds. NYSAC Chairman Ron Scott Stevens presided over the weigh in for the Unification heavyweight championship set for Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. K2 Promotions and Seminole Warriors Boxing will promote the Unification, which will air on HBO World Championship Boxing.

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IBF HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP ATTEMPTS TO UNIFY BELTS WITH
WBO HEAVYWEIGHT SULTAN IBRAGIMOV THIS SATURDAY

NEW YORK, NY, February 20 – Just two days before his highly anticipated world heavyweight title unification bout on Saturday against WBO champion Sultan Ibragimov at New York’s Madison Square Garden, IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko will take a break from his busy pre-fight schedule this Thursday, February 21st to appear on the hit NBC show Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

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By: Danny Serratelli, ringside
Photos by: Richard Roffman

Simon vs. Garcia in the main event

Rising Star Promotions became the third new boxing promoter to put on a show in New Jersey in two weeks time when they teamed up with The Showboat Hotel & Casino to deliver a quality night of professional boxing from the “House of Blues”. The show consisted of 7 bouts all of which turned out to be well matched and competitive. The attendance was good but the action was better and the venue was impressive.

Energy drink, Liquid Lightning sponsored the show and the girls from www.Roundcardmodels.com as well as a live musical act right before the main event added some interesting flavor to a great night of boxing. The show opened with a good match up with Rondu Campbell, 2-0 winning a hard fought split decision over Dwayne Davis, 0-1 and the action continued up until USBA middleweight champion Lajuan “Simply Marvelous” Simon, 18-0 9 KO’s won a unanimous decision over Elco “The Animal” Garcia, 19-7, 9 KO’s.

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