Kauffman vs. Castillo, Pasley vs. Matthews in Reading May 30th!
Marshall Kauffman’s Kings Promotions returns to Reading, PA on May 30th with a boxing / MMA event at the Sovereign Center for a night being billed as “Pain on Penn Street”.
The main event will be feature “The Great White Hope” Travis Kauffman (16-0, 13ko’s) of Reading taking on Livan Castillo (14-6, 9ko’s) of Atlantic City via Ecuador for an 8 round heavyweight match up. The Kauffman team has billed GW Hope as the best heavyweight prospect in the business. That remains to be seen but the 23 year old does posses an excellent set of boxing skills and was a highly decorated amateur, one time ranking as high as #3 in the country by USA boxing. As a pro they have taken the slow and steady approach in developing Kauffman into a contender. The highlight to date has been a one sided KO over Chicago’s Malachy Farrell within 2 rounds on ShoBox. Moving forward, he should have no trouble against the fading Castillo, a fighter who has been KO’d in all 6 of his losses.
After quite a few false starts, Philly cruiserweight Kamarah Pasley (4-3, 2ko’s) and the undefeated Julio Caesar Matthews (7-0, 5ko’s) of Reading will finally get it on in the co-feature for what should be a very competitive 6 round southpaws battle.
Pasley’s career started slow, losing three closely contested matches out of the gate but things have turned around big time in 2009 and he now looks to make it 5 wins in a row, this time against the toughest challenge of his career. His most recent activity has been his finest as Pasley convincingly defeated former amateur standout Pedro Martinez and followed up with a KO win as an impromptu headliner on a card in Atlantic City.
His opponent Mathews is not one to be taken lightly. The 39 year old rough man returned from an 11 year layoff with a vengeance, knocking out his first 4 foes until recently going the distance in a win against journeyman Wil Gill. Matthews looks to be the stronger of the two and is not afraid to make it a firefight. He also has the home field advantage as he is from Reading and is trained by the promoter. But you can throw all of that out the window because in the ring it will be puncher vs. counter puncher, a formula that usually leads to excitement for the fans! Interview with Pasley to be posted soon!
Craig Tomlinson of Reading, Ronald Cruz of Bethlehem, Esteban Rodriguez of Lebanon and Travis Thompson of Pottstown will also be on the card.
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