teon_kennedy_boxe_3dTeon Kennedy versus Joselito Collado at Bally’s Atlantic City Fight Card Preview

 

By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent

 

Atlantic City (July 5th, 2013)– Former United States Boxing Association Super Bantamweight champion Teon Kennedy, now campaigning as a super featherweight, returns to the ring in his second comeback bout against Joselito Collado, at Bally’s Event Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Saturday evening, August 24, 2013. Russell Peltz and Peltz Boxing Promotions will present the 10 round main event championship action as part of a seven bout summer boxing card at Bally’s Hotel and Casino Atlantic City.

 

Kennedy, now 18-2-2 with seven knockouts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will win by unanimous decision over Collado, now 13-2, three knockouts, a Dominican now fighting out of JamaicaQueens, New York. Collado’s two losses in 2011 and 2012 were to Jerry Belmontes and Casey Ramos, who had a combined record on 30-0 when Collado fought them. Collado’s 15 wins include only two fighters with winning records, Jules Backwell and Rafael Lora. In his second fight, Collado went four rounds to decision Vineash Rungea, a fighter with 15 losses who remains indisputably one of the worst fighters this reporter has ever seen in the ring, raising questions as to Collado’s quality of opponents despite his winning record.

 

Kennedy’s record is solid, with the majority of his opposition having winning records. Only 18 months into his professional career, Kennedy knoced out 10-0 Thomas Snow in the second round. Including Snow, Kennedy’s opposition has over two hundred professional wins, including one world champion (Guillermo Rigondeaux), one number one contender (Alejandro Lopez), a WBC USNBC champion (Christopher Martin), and one state champion (Francisco Rodriguez of Illinois) who died after his bout in the ring trying to win the vacant UBA title in his bout with Kennedy.

 

Kennedy appears to have overcome the Francisco Rodriguez tragedy. The challenge for Kennedy and Hall of Fame promoter Russell Peltz will be to move Kennedy in the Super Featherweight / Junior Lightweight division and gain enough significant win to maneuver Kennedy, age 27, back into world championship contention in 2014 in this division. Kennedy is fighting approximately eight pounds higher than his previous Super Bantamweight divisional weight of 122 pounds.

 

Kennedy did a great job getting the rust out against rough tough Carlos Vinan at Bally’s this past June 2013, nearly finishing Vinan in the tenth and final round after putting on an accurate and patient jab technical display for most of the bout, taking his time, moving well with a good defense and getting the cobwebs out after a year of inactivity. Kennedy went down five times in his World Boxing Association title bout with Guillermo Rigondeaux in June 2012, but showed no defensive holes or flaws with Vinan, making improvements and moving well while not punching himself out.

 

In the scheduled eight round preliminary to the main event bout, 9-1-2 North Carolina light middleweight Jamar Freeman has an even matchup against newly signed Peltz fighter 10-2-1 Decarlo Perez of Atlantic City. The record of Perez includes a stoppage win over former welterweight contender Shamone Alvarez in Atlantic City in November 2012. Freeman’s padded record includes only one win over a fighter with a winning record, Omar Simms, after drawing with Simms, both in 2009. Freeman is coming off a tenth round stoppage loss to Samuel Rogers at MandalayBay  Resort & Casino in Las Vegas in December 2011, and may not have recovered from that loss over 18 months ago.

 

Heavyweights Joe Cusomano, Jon Bolden and Mark Rideout are also scheduled to appear on the card, along with welterweights Rafael Montalvo and Jose Javier Calderon, super featherweight Anthony Burgin, and light welterweight Nathaniel Rivas.

 

First bout will be at 7:30 P.M. in Bally’s Grand Ballroom. Tickets for the event can be purchased online via Peltzboxing.com or Ticketmaster.com. Peltz Boxing Promotions has been Philadelphia’s leader in boxing promotions since 1969.

 

 

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