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Greg Cohen Promotions Off To
Big Start In 2014
New York-based promoter Greg Cohen of Greg Cohen Promotions
has a very busy schedule set up for the start of 2014, with
several high-profile events he is either promoting or
co-promoting and featuring many of his premier fighters.
On Friday, January 10, Greg Cohen Promotions, DiBella
Entertainment, Brian Halquist Productions, and GH3
Promotions will present "Battle at the Boat 94", in the I-5
Showroom of the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington,
and televised live, worldwide, by ESPN Friday Night Fights.
In the 10-round super featherweight main event, IBF
#8-ranked Afghani-Canadian Arash Usmanee (20-1-1, 10 KOs)
will face Mexican KO artist Juan Antonio "El Mozo" Rodriguez
(25-4, 23 KOs). In the televised co-feature, Zahir "Z-Man"
Raheem (34-3, 21 KOs) will continue his comeback against TBA.
And in a special attraction, former top cruiserweight
contender Lateef "Power" Kayode (19-0, 15 KOs) will make his
second appearance as a heavyweight.
And then, on January 17, at the Cook Convention Center in
Memphis, Tennessee, DiBella Entertainment, in association
with GH3 Promotions, Greg Cohen Promotions and Prize Fight
Boxing, will present an exciting quadrupleheader for the
premiere of the 2014 ShoBox: The New Generation season with
live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West
Coast).
In the 10-round main event, GCP's once-beaten Tony
"Lightning" Luis (17-1, 7 KO's) will face Ukrainian
lightweight Ivan "The Terrible" Redkach (15-0, 13 KO's). In
the televised co-features, unbeaten junior middleweights
John Thompson (14-0, 5 KO's) and Frank Galarza (11-0-2, 7
KO's) collide in an eight-round matchup and fast-rising and
highly regarded up-and-coming prospect Antoine Douglas
(11-0, 7 KO's) squares off against Marquis Davis (8-0-2, 5
KO's) in an eight-round middleweight showdown. Opening the
telecast will be hard-hitting Maurice Hooker (12-0-1, 9 KOs)
against an opponent TBA in an eight-round junior
welterweight matchup.
On January 31, in West Orange, New Jersey and live on
ESPN2's Friday Night Fights, Greg Cohen Promotions, DiBella
Entertainment, and GH3 Promotions will present "Super
BrawlTM", featuring Elvir "The Kosovo Kid" Muriqi (40-5, 24
KOs) taking on former world light heavyweight champion Zsolt
Erdei (33-1, 18 KOs) in a 10-round light heavyweight bout.
On the same card, Jorge Diaz (17-2) will take on undefeated
Luis Rosa (15-0) in a ten-round super bantamweight bout. On
the undercard, undefeated lightweight prospect Mikey Faragon
(18-0, 8 KOs) will make his much-anticipated return to the
ring against an opponent TBA, after recovering from major
foot surgery.
And finally, on February 1, Cohen's fighter, WBA #3 Jarrod
Fletcher (17-1, 10 KO's), will face WBA #1 Martin Murray
(26-1-1, 11 KO's) for the vacant WBA 160 lb. title as the
co- feature of Golovkin's title defense against Osumanu
Adama at the Salle des Etoiles, in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
"Our fighters have been blessed with big opportunities and
we've been working very hard to bring them to fruition,"
said Cohen. "I'd like to thank ESPN, Showtime and all my
co-promoters for helping make it all happen. I look forward
to a big year for GCP and its fighters and we're off to a
terrific start!"
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