News: Reile vs Santana; 8 Count Productions: Strandja Cup

boxingStacey “stayLo” Reile of Miami Florida will be facing Dahania Santana of the Dominican Republic for the IBF Featherweight WorLd title on March 31 in San Jose Costa Rica.

Coming off of a highly controversial loss in Germany October 9th 2010, Stacey will try for her second consecutive World Title with world class trainer Orlando Cuellar in her corner. The Fight on march 31, 2011 is coming one day before the One year anniversary of the loss of Stacey’s mother, Barbara Ann Reile, on April 1st 2010.

ACES HIGH FOR CHICAGO ’S 8 COUNT PRODUCTIONS GRANADOS, ESHO AND CARRILLO SIGN UP

CHICAGO, IL (February 20, 2011) Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions, HOME OF THE BEST IN CHICAGO BOXING, announced the signing today of three sensational young undefeated prospects to exclusive promotional contracts.

Joining the 8 Count Productions roster are Chicagoans’ Adrian Granados, Achour Esho and Ramiro Carrillo..

“It’s a great day for 8 Count Productions and these terrific young warriors and just as important for the fight fans of Chicago. All three are very popular, exciting prospects and we plan to keep them very busy on our WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT series at our home, the UIC Pavilion” said Pesoli.

The 21 year old Granados known as “EL TIGRE”, 5-0-0 with three knockouts, is coming over a sensational second round stoppage of Justin Danforth in their scheduled six round junior welterweight bout on December 17th at the UIC Pavilion.

Welterweight Esho thrilled the huge crowd at the UIC Pavilion on January 28th with a jaw dropping fifth round knockout of Corey Rodriguez to improve his record to 10-0-0 with seven stoppages.

Only 20 years old, junior welterweight “EL LOBITO” Carrillo improved to 4-0-0 with two knockouts with a shutout four round decision over Clifford McPherson on the January 28th event.

Continued Pesoli, “Granados and Carrillo fought numerous times as amateurs and they’ll both be fighting on our upcoming card on April 1st. They both want to fight each other and ideally we’ll try to make that fight this year. Talking to each there seems to be some unfinished business that only a fight in the professional ranks can solve.”

‘Esho is a little further along in his career with more fights than the other two. He also had what you could call the “Arturo Gatti” moment in his career on our last show. He was knocked down hard in the fourth round by Rodriguez and was bleeding pretty badly, but came back to earn the knockout in the next round. The huge crowd at the UIC Pavilion was thrilled by his performance.”

“We’re very proud to welcome each of these warriors to the 8 Count Productions team” said Pesoli.

Other fighters under the 8 Count Productions banner include super middleweight contender Donovan “DA BOMB” George, light heavyweight prospect Andrzej “THE POLISH PRINCE” Fonfara, undefeated junior welterweight prospect Ivan Popoca, welterweight prospect Jaime Herrera and junior middleweight Luciano Perez.

Details of the next 8 Count Productions event, WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT 16 set for Friday, April 1st at the UIC Pavilion will be announced shortly.

8 Count Productions, HOME OF THE BEST IN CHICAGO BOXING, was started by Dominic Pesoli in 1998 and has consistently presented the highest quality professional boxing events in Chicagoland.

For more information on 8 Count Productions please visit www.8countproductions.com.

Gold for Ogogo and Evans as GB Boxing wins seven medals at the Strandja Cup

GB Boxing starts 2011 with 10 medals in two elite tournaments against the world’s best

Middleweight Anthony Ogogo and Welterweight, Fred Evans, secured Gold as men and women from the GB Boxing squad put in a superb team performance to win seven medals at the Strandja Cup in Bulgaria.

It takes the total of medals won by the GB Boxing squad in the first two months of 2011 to 10 and follows an excellent performance at the previous week’s Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary, when GB Boxing returned with Gold for Bantamweight Luke Campbell, Silver for Light Welterweight, Bradley Saunders, and Bronze for Heavyweight, Danny Price.

Both tournaments featured top class competition and included boxers from many of the world’s leading nations including Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, France, Hungary, Bulgaria and Cuba. A full list of medal winners is:

The Strandja Cup (15-20 February 2010)

Gold

· Fred Evans, Wales, 69Kg, St Joseph’s, Cardiff

· Anthony Ogogo, England, 75Kg, Triple A Boxing Club, Lowestoft

Silver

· Martin Ward, England, 60Kg, Repton, Bethnal Green

Bronze

· Tommy Stubbs, England, 52 Kg, Northside, Oldham

· Gamal Yafai, England, 56Kg, Birmingham City, Birmingham

· Natasha Jonas, England, 60Kg, Rotunda, Liverpool

· Simon Vallily, England, 91Kg, South Bank ABC, Middlesbrough

Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary (9-13 February 2011)

Gold

· Luke Campbell, England, 56Kg, St Paul’s, Hull

Silver

· Bradley Saunders, England, 64Kg, South Durham ABC, Stockton on-Tees

Bronze

· Danny Price, England, 91Kg, Westway ABC, Scarborough

GB Boxing’s Performance Director said: “To come back with 10 medals, including three Golds, from two such high calibre competitions is a superb performance by the squad and augurs very well for the future.

“For many of the squad this was their first taste of top-level international boxing and for so many of them to perform so well and come back with a medal is a very positive sign and shows the strength in depth we now have within the squad.”

Details of both competitions and all of the bouts are available at the BABA’s website, www.gbboxing.org.uk.