Promoter Robert Waterman has announced June 7th 2012 as the date for the next professional championship boxing show at the Peterborough Arena.
After the success of the March show, fans can expect to once again see local talent in the squared circle for what promises to be another unforgettable evening at Peterborough’s most exciting venue.
Stay tuned for ticket information.
Martin Gethin & Ivan Godor
Doors open at 6:30pm with the first fight scheduled to start at 7:30pm. VIP and Ringside tickets are sold-out but a limited number £30 tickets are available at the gate, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
FULL CARD
Martin Gethin vs Ivan Godor
International Masters Welterweight Title
Caine Brodie (Peterborough) vs Dean Walker
Light-heavyweight
Cello Renda (Peterborough) vs Ruslans Pojonisevs
Middleweight
Jake Dyer (Peterborough) vs Bobby Wood
Light-heavyweight
JJ Bird (Peterborough) vs Andrew Patterson
Light-middleweight
Marcin Marczak (Poland) vs Olekisy Chukov
Light-middleweight
Nathan Dale (Norwich) vs Danny Dontchev
Welterweight
Promoter Robert Waterman last night confirmed the 25 year-old light-middleweight from Bretton will box on the show at the Exec Arena at the East of England Showground on Friday, March 9.
The bill also features local crowd-pleasers Cello Renda, Caine Brodie and Jake Dyer and is topped by Martin Gethin, the former English lightweight champion from Walsall, boxing Ivan Godor for the vacant International Masters belt.
Tickets are selling well for the first show in the city since December, 2007 – and Bird is sure to attract a big following.
He has around 60,000 followers on Twitter and JLS star and boyhood pal Aston Merrygold could be among the ringsiders in Peterborough next month.
Brodie relaunches his exciting professional career at the Exec Arena at the East of England showground on Friday, March 9 when local crowd-pleasers Cello Renda, JJ Bird and Jake Dyer also box on a championship bill.
Brodie, out of the ring since November, 2009, says he feels “bigger and stronger” after deciding to campaign at light-heavyweight and teaming up with nutritionist Karen Devine.
And the 29 year-old from Gunthorpe is planning to tear up the text book before his comeback fight.
“I like having a good old-fashioned punch up,” he said. “I’ve tried studying tapes and text books and it doesn’t work for me. I don’t want to spend too much time thinking about my boxing or my opponents. I like going back to basics and having a punch up.
Caine Brodie will be keen to be a part of Peterborough’s boxing revival.
Brodie is an all-action super-middleweight and former amateur star who will relaunch
his career on the show after more than two years out of the ring.
Brodie, a winner of four of five super-middleweight fights, was a top-class amateur.
Rick Green, the head coach at Focus ABC, took Brodie to the National Schoolboy
championship final and as a senior with Phil Prout’s Arena ABC, he reached the
semi finals of the ABA championship in 2006-2007.
Phil Prout
Prout will be training Brodie, sponsored by SJS Plastering and The Vykin
Corporation, at his York Road gym in the countdown to the show – and once a
week, they will head to manager Johnny Eames’ gym in Canning Town for top-class
sparring with the likes of former British cruiserweight champion Leon Williams.
Next month’s show in Peterborough features the return of British boxing’s most exciting toe-to-toe slugger.
Cello Renda has been added to promoter Robert Waterman’s show at the Peterborough Arena at the East of England Showground on Friday, March 9 – and that means fight fans are guaranteed plenty of thrills.
Renda is a heart-on-his-sleeve gunslinger who has thrilled fans around the world.
Footage of his astonishing double knockdown with Paul Samuels in November, 2009 has had more than 350,000 hits on YouTube and was used as part of Sky Sports’ advertising campaign.
And his ‘Prizefighter’ final against Martin Murray is regarded as possibly the most exciting punch up in the tournament’s history . . .
After an absence of four years, professional boxing returns to Peterborough and finds a new home at the city’s flagship venue – The Peterborough Arena. Big time fight promoter Robert Waterman has joined forces with local businessmen to deliver a spectacular evening of boxing featuring some of the region’s brightest young stars on March 9th 2012.
Robert hopes a crowd of around 1,500 will watch the show, which is being filmed by Hatton TV and added: “The Peterborough Arena is a great venue, the people are good to work with and if we get the support we need, there will be regular big shows in Peterborough.”
Keith Dalton, Managing Director of The Peterborough Arena, said: “Hopefully this show is the start of the venue being established as a venue for major, top-class professional boxing.”
The show will raise funds for the RAF Benevolent Fund with unreserved tickets priced at £30, reserved at £50 and corporate VIP tables at just £750+VAT, which includes a three-course meal in a dedicated VIP area with full table service.