Boxing legend Danny Garcia’s Swift Promotions will proceed to construct off their four-event debut final yr by kicking off 2025 with one other explosive evening of motion, as “THE FUTURE IS NOW” involves the famed 2300 Enviornment in Philadelphia on Saturday, March 8, that includes a few of boxing’s most enjoyable prospects and contenders.
Unbeaten Mathew “Lefty Gunz” Gonzalez (15-0-1, 10 KOs) of Ridgewood, New York, takes on Jino Rodrigo (12-4-2, 10 KOs) of Antipolo Metropolis, Rizal, Philippines in an eight-round tremendous light-weight attraction that headlines the cardboard streaming reside on BXNG TV starting at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. Within the eight-round co-featured bout, fashionable tremendous middleweight Thomas “Cornflake” Lamanna (38-5-1, 17 KOs), of Millville, New Jersey, will face Noe Alejandro Lopez (11-6-1, 4 KOs) of Spring, TX.
Undefeated welterweight Juan Rivera V (5-0, 3 KOs) of Philadelphia will go towards Maracaibo, Venezuela’s Yeifer Valencia (6-4, 5 KOs) in a six-round battle, whereas tremendous light-weight contender Daiyaan Butt (19-2, 10 KOs) of Newark, New Jersey will go eight rounds towards confirmed veteran Issouf Kinda (20-6, 9 KOs) of the Bronx through Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In a six-round junior flyweight attraction, rising girls’s prospect Nyousha “SuperFly” Nakhjiri (1-0) of Vancouver, Canada through Iran competes towards Josefina Vega (Sep 11, 4 KOs) of New York Metropolis through Quito, Ecuador.
Allentown, Pennsylvania, prospect Thanjhae Teasley (11-0, 5 KOs) will put his undefeated report on the road in a brilliant welterweight six-rounder versus the Dominican Republic’s Eudy Bernardo (25-8, 18 KOs).
Unbeaten power-punching tremendous light-weight Thomas Blumenfeld (7-0, 6 KOs) of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, will tackle once-beaten rival Frankie Sanchez Jr. (7-1-2, 6 KOs) of Aurora CA, over eight rounds, and rounding out this stacked evening of boxing, undefeated Maple Shade, New Jersey, light-weight Justin Palmieri (3-0, 1 KO) will seem in a four-round bout towards additionally undefeated Antonio Gates (3-0, 2 KOs) of Metairie, Louisiana through Chicago.
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After placing on 4 occasions within the second half of final yr, Swift Promotions will surge into 2025 with a loaded struggle card all happening on the basic Philadelphia venue identified for boxing motion. With a giant 2025 within the works, Swift Promotions Founder Danny Garcia believes March 8 will set the tone for the yr forward.
“That is gonna be a can’t-miss evening for Swift Promotions to kick off the yr with on March 8 at 2300 Enviornment in Philly,” mentioned boxing legend and Founder and CEO of Swift Promotions Danny Garcia. “We’ve received a few of the finest younger expertise on the earth going into that ring and I can’t anticipate them to show their abilities.”
Now combating out of New Jersey underneath the Swift Promotions banner, Puerto Rican contender Mathew Gonzalez is unbeaten since turning professional in 2017 and can look to proceed his ascent up the 140-pound rankings on March 8. The 29-year-old has scored stoppage victories in 5 of his final six victories, with the one blemish in his professional profession thus far coming through a majority draw towards Dakota Linger in October 2021. Gonzalez will return to the pleasant confines of the 2300 Enviornment, the place his final two victories befell. These triumphs noticed him cease Benjamin Lamptey in spherical two of their July 2024 conflict, earlier than he most not too long ago scored one other second-round stoppage, this time over Patrick Okine final September.
A 14-year skilled, the likeable “Cornflake” LaManna has beforehand held the WBC FECARBOX and the New Jersey State Welterweight Championships and, in his most up-to-date struggle, captured the World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) middleweight gold belt with a third-round knockout win over Juan Carlos Abreu in June 2024 at Bally’s Atlantic Metropolis. LaManna has gained his final eight bouts, courting again to 2021.
Born in Iran and representing Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Nyousha Nakhjiri (1-0) was a prolific novice who amassed a 45-10 report together with a gold medal on the Haringey Field Cup, Europe’s largest open match. Her novice run noticed her ranked because the No. 1 flyweight on the Canadian Nationwide Staff earlier than she turned professional final Could. The 27-year-old not too long ago joined the Swift Promotions workforce after a profitable professional debut that noticed her defeat Frida Citlati Torres Rangel by determination final Could.
