New boxing star5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Mikhailovich, who’s never been short on confidence, is determined to make an impact in his second international outing. “At 37, Davidson has experience and is still sharp and dangerous, but it’s the right time for a young lion like Andrei who’s just 24 and can really punch, to test his mettle.” Lonergan, is also confident Mikhailovich will make the step up in class against Davidson, a slick Nigerian who’s held a slew of titles including the WBU world middleweight crown and the WBO international, light middleweight strap. “Aside from the brute physicality required in sparring a bigger man, being part of a world title training camp where he gets to see the intensity required to reach the pinnacle of the sport, is invaluable.” This will be ideal preparation for his next fight. “Jerome is coming straight out of New Zealand’s lockdown and although at 10 and 0, he is ready for international competition. Promoter Dean Lonergan, of D&L Events, thinks it’s the perfect time for Pampellone to enter the cauldron of world title preparation. But basically, overall, my style is still the same.Joining him on that Brisbane card is Kiwi middleweight sensation, Andrei Mikhailovich, who will take on former world champion King Davidson. Like you watch a lot of the international guys as amateurs, it's kind of like touch, touch, touch, move and touch, touch, tap. "Me and my coach Derrick James never trained to fight the amateur system. "The only change was me taking off the headgear," he said. He was, he says, already fighting like a pro, even in the amateur ranks. For Spence, the professional game didn't require much of an adjustment. Less than one year later he'd won nine straight fights, seven by knockout. Three months after the Olympic Games, Spence had turned pro. It was kind of stressful, but we had to make do with what we had." I mean they seen us around, but they never trained with us and we had to cram everything in, in three to four weeks. "You know Cuba and these other countries like Russia, they've had the same coaches for 10 years, five years. "So you didn't really have time to adjust to these coaches and build any chemistry with these coaches. They were still picking out the coaches a month before the Olympics," Spence said. And then I started reading up on the Olympics and the boxing Olympics and decided I wanted to go to the Olympics." "At first I didn't want to go to the boxing gym. "That's when I decided that I wanted to go to the Olympics too," Spence said. But when he saw fellow Dallas fighter Luis Yanez qualify for the 2008 Olympic team, it lit a fire that couldn't be extinguished. You know, I was beating guys, I'd knock them out just like that."įootball had been his first love. Star Boxings stable features world- class athletes and has consistently brought credibility, integrity, and exciting fights to the boxing industry. Been an amateur since they were like four or five years old. RE: President/CEO of Star Boxing Email: Business: Star Boxing Phone: (718) 823-2000 location: Bronx, NY 10462, USA Star Boxing has been in operation since 1992. "I was fighting in the open class, and then I was beating those guys who had been amateur fighters for six, seven years, eight years. "When I first got to the gym, like two weeks after my first training, I was winning a tournament," Spence Jr. But Spence, a talented cornerback on the gridiron-so good that opposing players would occasionally ask him for autographs -was immediately fight-ready. Boxing is a difficult sport to master, filled with movements and strategies that don't always come easy for even the best athletes. It normally takes a young fighter weeks to just stop tripping over his own feet. ![]() Coaches Gene Vivero and Wayne Maddox soon confirmed it for him. His boxing-fanatic father had seen him slap fighting with friends at the house and knew, somehow knew, that he was special. He was 15 years old when he stepped into the Vivero Boxing Gym in Dallas for the first time.
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