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TAMPA FEATHERWEIGHT RIVALS CLASH IN GRUDGE MATCH

Starfight Productions, Inc. is proud to present its latest installment of Fight Night at the Pavilion on June 27, 2008 at the A La Carte Event Pavilion in Tampa, FL. The card features a long awaited bout between two of the areas top Featherweights as Carlos “El Rayo” Rivera takes on Carlos “Bam Bam” Diaz in the eight round main event. Carlos Rivera (12-3-2, 4 KOs), from Port Richey, Florida, is coming off three consecutive wins. Rivera was last seen on May 9, 2008 and looked extremely impressive in taking a six round unanimous decision over veteran Carlos Vinan. Carlos Diaz (9-12-4, 7 KOs), from Tampa, FL, has fought some of the top featherweights in the world today including former world title challenger Antonio Davis and top prospect Vincente Escobedo amongst others.

Also featured on the card is the 2008 Olympic Trials Silver Medalist in the 152 lbs. division, Keith Thurman (5-0, 5 KOs). Thurman has looked very impressive thus far in his professional career and is yet to hear the bell sound for the second round with all his victories coming by way of first round knockout. The Welterweight prospect from Clearwater, Florida looks to keep his knockout streak alive this evening.

Filling out the undercard is some of the best professional boxing talent in the Tampa Bay area. Female boxing sensation Jenna Shiver (5-2-1) takes on veteran Renee Richardt-Douglas from Missouri. Undefeated Middleweight prospect Ahsandi Gibbs (7-0) takes on veteran Ben Aragon from Montana. Undefeated Heavyweight and crowd favorite Nicholas Iannuzzi (6-0) is in a six round bout. Also, fighting on the card is Clearwater Heavyweight Jason Barnett (10-7, 4 KOs) and undefeated Lightweight prospect Tyrese Hendrix, from Gainesville, Georgia (12-0-1, 6 KOs).

Tickets for the event, which can be purchased through the Official Ticketmaster site.
, are priced at $80, $75, $70, $55, $45, $35, and $20. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the fight card begins at 8pm.
A La Carte Event Pavillion, 4050 Dana Shores Drive, Tampa (Rocky Point), Florida
Contact:
Starfight Productions
813-876-9269
info@starfightproductions.com

Edner Cherry Stops Stevie Johnston!
courtesy of BoxingScene.com

Once the best Lightweight in the world, 35-year old Stevie Johnston (42-6-1, 18 KO) of Denver, Colorado looked a shell of his former self on Wednesday night at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, suffering his third knockout loss in six starts. The latest man to notch Johnston onto his belt, 25-year old Edner Cherry (24-5-2, 12 KO) of Wachula, Florida provided the most devastating proof in those three losses that Johnston’s health would be better secured outside the ring in the future. Cherry’s tenth round knockout win would see Johnston on the mat for minutes after the referee’s count had ended.
Continue reading ‘Edner Cherry Stops Stevie Johnston!’

courtesy of FightNews.com

Junior welterweight Derrick Samuels (15-3-1) stopped Donnell Logan (10-16) in the first round on Friday night at the A la Carte Pavillion in Tampa, Florida. Samuels hurt Logan with a body shot and Logan was not able to recover.

In the co-feature, welterweight Keith Thurman moved to 5-0 with five first round knockouts by destroying Jessie Davis 9-10 in 2:45 seconds of the first stanza. After taking massive punishment in the early part of the round, Davis was hit with a left hook to the body and a huge right hand that knocked him to the canvas. Davis was not able to make it up by the ten count.
Continue reading ‘LATEST RESULTS: May 9th, Samuels smokes Logan!’

Garcia battles Nuzhnenko to a draw!
The first major title fight in Ukrainian boxing history.

April 21, 2008
By Alexey Sukachev / Anton Gorunov at ringside, courtesy of Fightnews.com
Photos Courtesy of Boxnews.com.ua

In the first ever title fight in Ukrainian boxing history local hero Yuri Nuzhnenko (27-0-1, 13 KOs) failed to live up to expectations barely retaining his WBA interim welterweight belt via a technical draw with Puerto Rican import Irving Garcia (16-3-2, 8 KOs). The Nuzhnenko-Garcia showdown was a main event of another telling tournament arranged by K2 East Promotions at the Sports Palace in Kiev, Ukraine…
Continue reading ‘GARCIA BATTLES NUZHNENKO TO A DRAW!’

Night of knockouts at Al La Carte Pavilion
By Anthony Ivey
courtesy of :: Florida Boxing Beatdown ::

The punches were flying on March 14 at the Al La Carte Pavilion in Tampa as Starfight Productions Inc. put on a card that saw only one bout make it to the scheduled distance.
In the evening’s opening contest between light heavyweights, Jacksonville’s Marcus Upshaw defeated former Kelly Pavlik opponent Rico Cason.
In the opening stanza, Upshaw effectively landed left-right combinations and then capped off the round with a left hook to the body that dropped Cason to his knees… Continue reading ‘LATEST RESULTS - Night of knockouts at Al La Carte Pavilion’

By Matt Maxson
Florida Boxing News Correspondent at ringside

LAS VEGAS, NV - Edner “Cherry Bomb” Cherry definitely took care of business.

Cherry, from Wauchula, FL, knocked out Las Vegan Wes Ferguson in the sixth round with a solid left hook to the chin Saturday night on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Ricky Hatton WBC Welterweight world championship at the MGM Grand.

In a pre-fight interview with Florida Boxing News, Cherry said he didn’t intend to look for a knockout against Ferguson in their rematch. Rather, he was going to work the body. But he said he was going to “handle his business.” The confident Cherry defeated Ferguson by a 10-round unanimous decision in June at the A La Carte Event Pavilion.

Cherry got his business handled at 2:59 of the sixth round of the lightweight bout that was scheduled for 10 rounds.

It was also a left hand from Cherry (23-5-2, 11 KOs) that floored Ferguson (17-3-`1, 5 KOs) earlier in the sixth.

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Starfight Productions, Inc. is proud to announce that it has signed
amateur boxing sensation Keith Thurman to a multi-year exclusive
promotional contract. Thurman won the silver medal in the
Welterweight division at the 2008 Olympic Team Trials held last month
in Houston, Texas. Thurman’s only losses at the trials were to
eventual United States Olympic team member Demetrius Andrade. The
Olympic Trials capped off a much decorated amateur career for Thurman
which included winning the PAL National Championships in 2006.
Thurman is known in boxing circles as a devastating puncher and one of
the best professional prospects to come out of the amateur ranks this
year.

“Signing Keith Thurman is a huge step for Starfight Productions.
Keith is the best puncher in amateur boxing and I am sure his power
will translate very well in the pros,” said Aaron Jacobs, Starfight
Productions Director of Operations. Thurman is trained and managed by
Ben Getty who has guided Keith’s amateur career. Thurman’s first professional boxing bout is scheduled for November 9th
at the A La Carte Event Pavilion in Tampa, Florida against an opponent
to be named.