New trainer Mike ‘Red’ Skownowski On Target working with Matt “Sharp Shooter” Remillard
MANCHESTER, Conn. (March 22, 2011) – New Jersey-based trainer Mike “Red” Skownowski reports that training unbeaten NABF and NABO featherweight champion Matt “Sharp Shooter” Remillard for his March 26 showdown against unbeaten IBF No. 1 contender“Mikey” Garcia, despite being together a little more than month, seems like they’ve been working together for a year. Remillard-Garcia is […]
Matt “Sharp Shooter” Remillard Training Camp Notes
MANCHESTER, Conn. (March 8, 2011) – The fight to determine America’s leading featherweight, pitting unbeaten NABF and NABO champion Matt “Sharp Shooter” Remillard against undefeated IBF # 1 contender Mikey Garcia, is the 10-round co-feature on Top Rank’s “Featherweight Fury,” March 26 on HBO After Dark live from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey […]
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY FOR ‘FEATHERWEIGHT FURY!
AT BOARDWALK HALL IN ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY Three Big Title Fights! === March 26, 2011 Atlantic City, N.J. – Tickets go on sale Friday, January 28, noon, for Top Rank’s “Featherweight Fury!” with three big title fights on a Top Rank championship event at the Boardwalk Hall here on Saturday, March 26. Tickets are […]
Matt “Sharp Shooter” Remillard signs with Top Rank
MANCHESTER, Conn. (January 17, 2011) – Undefeated, 24-year-old NABF and NABO champion Matt “Sharp Shooter” Remillard (23-0, 13 KOs), arguably America’s leading featherweight, has signed an exclusive promotional contract with Top Rank. “Matt is a tremendous, exciting fighter, “Hall of Fame promoter and Top Rank CEO Bob Arum said. “We are very pleased he has […]
Matt “Sharp Shooter” Remillard Targets 2011 world title fight
MANCHESTER, Conn. (December 7, 2010) – America’s leading American featherweight, unbeaten NABF and NABO champion Matt “Sharp Shooter” Remillard, has targeted a 2011 world title fight. The 24-year-old Remillard (23-0, 14 KOs), currently a promotional free agent, won all three of his 2010 fights by knockout. He has climbed the ratings systems to No. 3 […]
Paul Spadafora-like clone Danny O’Connor fighting on same card Nov. 20 at Mohegan Sun
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (Nov. 11, 2010) – Unbeaten junior welterweight prospect Danny O’Connor will be fighting Nov. 20th on a card headlined by the fighter he has been compared to since he was an amateur boxer, Paul “The Pittsburgh Kid” Spadafora. The 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate O’Connor (13-0, 3 KOs) was supposed to fight Nov. […]
Remillard & O’Connor lead New Englanders on loaded Spadafora-Ponce card
Nov. 20 at Mohegan Sun UNCASVILLE, Conn. (Nov. 8, 2010) – NABO & NABF Featherweight Champion Matt “ Sharp Shooter” Remillard and 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Alternate, Danny O’Connor, lead a host of talented New Englanders into the ring Nov. 20 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The top-to-bottom loaded card, present by Mike […]