Team Puerto Rico: Working to be Champions Inside and Outside Ring
Team Puerto Rico: Working to be Champions Inside and Outside Ring This week’s visit to former world champion Wilfred Benitez’s home was not the only charitable work Team Puerto Rico has been up to lately. Taking their roles seriously as the new ambassadors of Puerto Rican boxing, the members of Team Puerto Rico […]
‘Mantequilla’ Gonzalez to Face Richard Gutierrez for Two Titles
PHOTO: CARLOS BAEZA / THOMPSON BOXING On June 11 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, undefeated super welterweight, Jonathan “Mantequilla” Gonzalez (13-0, 13 KOs) of Barrio Obrero, Puerto Rico, will face experienced Colombian veteran Richard Gutierrez (24-6 -1, 16 KOs) in a 10-round battle for the WBA-NABA and WBO Latino Youth Middleweight Championships. […]
Team Puerto Rico Visits National Hero Wilfred Benitez, Gives a Donation and Bestows the Rank of Honorary Team Captain
San Juan, Puerto Rico- In a short celebration today, Team Puerto Rico Boxing visited the home of three-time world champion and Puerto Rican hero Wilfred “The Radar” Benitez and awarded him the rank of Honorary Captain of the professional boxing team. They also made a donation to his care of $2000. In an atmosphere of camaraderie […]
Meet Team Puerto Rico Five Across The Lip: Five Quick Questions For Jose “Sniper” Pedraza
Getting into a boxing ring in front of thousands where everything can go wrong at any second is pressure. Getting into a boxing ring also being labeled a “super prospect” doesn’t make it any easier. But that’s what 2009 World Amateur Championships Lightweight Silver Medalist and former Olympian Jose “Sniper” Pedraza is handling remarkably well, thus […]
Pro Wrestling Syndicate – Refuse to Lose 2
Fri May 20 8:00PM ET Pro Wrestling Syndicate comes to The Queens Elks Lodge in Elmhurst NY on Friday night May 27 with Refuse To Lose II. “The New Horror” Sami Callihan goes head to head against “The Boricua Beast” Dan Maff in a Texas Death Match with the winner getting a PWS Title Shot […]
Team Puerto Rico’s Next Appearance
Back-to-back, on June 10 and 11 (Friday and Saturday before the 2011 National Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday) at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, Gary Shaw Productions and DiBella Entertainment will present Boricua Invasion I and II, featuring members of Team Puerto Rico Boxing, the eight-man team of Puerto Rico’s future ring […]
Benitez to be Named Honorary Captain of Team Puerto Rico
Benitez to be Named Honorary Captain of Team Puerto Rico Team Puerto Rico Boxing is proud to announce that three-time world champion and Puerto Rican boxing great Wilfred Benitez will be named honorary captain of their team at a short ceremony next week. Benitez was the youngest world champion in boxing history. At […]
Team Puerto Rico’s ‘Orlandito’ del Valle Training in New York
Bayamon, Puerto Rico’s undefeated featherweight Luis “Orlandito” del Valle (12-0, 10 KOs) left today for his training base in Newburgh, New York, to prepare for the biggest fight of his career against Vietnamese fighter Dat Nguyen (17-1, 6 KOs). Del Valle vs. Nguyen will serve as the 10-round main event on Saturday, June 11 – the second […]
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