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New York’s latest hot prospect Heavyweight
Nagy Aguilera
Dec. 13 at The Roseland Ballroom
NEW YORK CITY (December 3, 2007) – Dominican-born heavyweight prospect Nagy
Aguilera, New York’s newest rising star, will be in action again December 13
on the “Holiday Hits” pro boxing show, co-promoted by Ring Promotions and
Cedric Kushner’s Gotham Boxing, at The Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan.
NABA middleweight champion “Mean” Joe Greene (16-0, 12 KOs), the 2004
National Golden Gloves Tournament champion and WBA No. 9 rated challenger,
headlines in the 10-round main event.
WBC No. 20 rated lightweight Jorge “The Truth” Teron (18-0-1, 11 KOs),
3-time New York Golden Gloves champion, will be in the 10-round co-feature.
Unbeaten middleweight Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (15-0, 12 KOs) takes on
Troy “TNT” Lowry (27-7, 16 KOs) in an eight-round Special Middleweight
Attraction.
Two-time New York Golden Gloves champion Aguilera (4-0, 2 KOs), raised in
Puerto Rico and fighting out of Newburgh (NY), is matched with Darryl Holley
(6-5, 1 KO) in a 6-rounder. “I first came across Nagy when I was looking for
a sparring partner about two months before my fight with (Evander)
Holyfield,” Nagy’s advisor and former world heavyweight contender “Big” Lou
Savarese said. “I was told about a good heavyweight in Newburgh, which is
about 1 ½ hours north of New York City. It’s a beautiful place, right on the
Hudson River, but a rough suburb. I was taken back after sparring with Nagy
and wondered why I hadn’t heard of him. He was only 20 at the time (Aguilera
is now 21) and said he only had about 30-40 amateur fights. But he seemed
more seasoned than that.
“Nagy is so fundamentally sound, but he was doing it working on a
shoe-string budget, without the benefit of a strength-and-conditioning coach
or eating properly. I introduced him to John Silverman, who is now his
manager, and today Nagy has those edges. Nagy has great physical attributes
(6-3, 230 pounds) and -- it’s odd to say about a 21 year old -- but he
doesn’t really do anything wrong because he’s so technically solid. Nagy
later told me he had 137 amateur bouts having started boxing very young in
Puerto Rico before moving to the Bronx about five years ago. Mentally, I’ve
never see a fighter so relaxed before a fight – he sleeps in the
locker-room! His timing is starting to come around; two fights ago he
knocked out (right out of the ring) a guy (Tyrone Smith) who had never been
stopped and in his last fight, he floored an opponent (Elfair McKnight) who
had never been down before. Nagy almost knocked him out, too.”
Also fighting on the undercard are New York State lightweight champion
Freddy Soto (9-3-2, 5 KOs), light welterweight Jeremy Bryan (1-0), Canadian
bantamweight Noriko Kariya (7-2-1, 1 KO), and Long Island heavyweights
Darrel Madison (7-1, 3 KOs) and Elfair “The Wyandanch Warrior” McKnight are
matched-up.
Tickets are priced at $150.00, $100.00, $75.00 and $50.00. Call Ring
Promotions (516.313.2304) or Gotham Boxing (212.755.1944) to purchase
tickets or for more information. Doors open at 6:30 PM, first bout at 7:30
PM.
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