MASHANTUCKET, CT – CES Boxing returns to “The Wonder of It All,” Foxwoods Resort Casino on Saturday, September 7 with a scintillating card featuring 2 championship bouts and several of New England’s top prospects in competitive match ups.
Tickets for Live Championship Boxing will be available on Friday, August 16 at CESFights.com and Ticketmaster. Doors open at 6pm, with the first bout at 7pm. The card will be televised free of charge on SwerveTV.
Newly minted WBC US Silver Lightweight Champion Alejandro “El Abusador” Paulino (17-0, 13 KOs) will defend his title for the first time in the main event.
Fighting out of New London, CT, Paulino returns to his home state after a successful season with the Boston Butchers, where he helped lead the team into the semi-finals in their first year with 14 wins and 6 knockdowns.
The co-main event features a classic turf war between New England Super Featherweight Champion “King” Kevin Walsh (13-0, 6 KOs) and power puncher Irvin Gonzalez (16-4, 12 KOs).
Walsh has been on a tear over the past year. The Brockton, MA fighter won the New England Super Featherweight title in January 2023 and added the vacant New England Lightweight title this past March. In Gonzalez, he’ll face an experienced foe who has battled the likes of Edward Vazquez, Elijah Pierce and Toka Khan-Clary.
Supporting the twin title bouts are 6 high caliber matchups featuring many of the best fighters in New England.
Francis Hogan (16-0, 14 KOs) will look to keep his undefeated record intact when he takes on veteran Elvin Ayala (29-13-1, 13 KOs) in a middleweight bout. The colorful “Frank the Tank,” of Weymouth, MA, will be in his toughest test to date against Ayala, a New Haven native who has shared the ring with former world champions Arthur Abraham and David Lemieux as well as current IBF jr. middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev.
Unbeaten lightweights collide when Bridgeport, CT’s Jacob “Lefty” Marrero (6-0, 5 KOs) meets Providence, RI native Elijah Peixoto (4-0, 2 KOs). In an all-Connecticut slugfest, Waterbury’s Mike “The Savage” Kimbel (6-0, 4 KOs) battles New Britain’s Anthony Mora (4-2-1, 3 KOs) in a welterweight matchup. Stamford, CT based Pole Slawomir Bohdziewicz puts his undefeated record on the line against Tennessee’s Kevin Torian (3-1, 3 KOs) in a cruiserweight contest. 18-year-old phenom Joseph Chisholm (1-0, 1 KO), of Stamford, CT, will welcome New Bedford, MA’s Roberto Colon into the pro ranks in a 4 round super bantamweight bout. A third Stamford-based boxer will be in action as Douglas Marroquin (2-0, 2 KOs) opens the show against Michigan’s Katriel Young (0-2).
For more information on Live Championship Boxing and all other CES Boxing events, visit cesfights.com.
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About CES Boxing
CES Boxing is one of the top promotions on the East Coast. Founded in 1992 by Jimmy Burchfield Sr., CES Boxing has promoted many world class fighters, including Jamaine Ortiz, Juiseppe Cusumano, Hank Lundy, Vinny Paz, Peter Manfredo, Mariusz Wach, Jason Estrada, Matt Godfrey, Chad Dawson and Ray Oliveira. CES Boxing has promoted such super fights as “The Thriller on Triller: Tyson v Jones Jr.”, “Mayweather vs. Gotti III” and “The Contender: Manfredo v Pemberton”.
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