FIGHT SERIES HELD IN MELBOURNE
Australian Fight Series – Friday 18th
February
The ‘Australian Fight Series’ is set to commence this Friday at
Flemington Racecourse.
A new and innovative fight series will feature eight of the top
welterweight boxers in Australia
to fight one another, resulting in the Australian Fight Series
Champion.
Drawn at random, the 1st Round fights this Friday are :
Alex Ahtong - NSW (# 10) vs Jimmy James - Vic (# 9)
Rivan Cessaire - Vic (# 9) vs Brad Hemming - Qld
Tim Hunt - Vic (# 8) vs Matt Paulley - NSW
Jason Kanofski - Qld (# 6) vs Todd Kidd - Qld (# 7)
(National ranking in brackets)
** Hemming and Paulley don’t feature in current rankings as they
have not fought in last 12 months.
These 8 men will challenge each other over four fightcards at six
weekly intervals, with bouts
drawn randomly in advance. With two
points for a win, one for a
knock-out and one point in
the event of a draw, the accumulative points score from the first
four fights will determine
which four boxers progress to the semi finals. The winner from the
two separate semi final
bouts will fight in the decider, the winner being crowned the
“Australian Fight Series
Champion”. The champion will then fly to the United States of
America, where they have a
guaranteed fight on a Roy Englebrecht “Battle in the Ballroom” card.
The first round of the Australian fight Series will be held in
Melbourne this Friday at
Flemington Racecourse. The following two rounds will be in Sydney
(in conjunction with Pete
Mitrevski Jnr) and Brisbane (in conjunction with Steve Deller), the
fourth round will return to
Melbourne. The venue for the semi finals and grand final nights will
be determined closer to
the dates, dependent on which boxers make those finals.
This Friday’s FightCard will also feature Australia’s #1
Light-middleweight, Glenroy’s Frank
LoPorto. Defending his PABA title agaisnt NZ # 1 middleweight, Harry
Venka.
Weigh-in will be this Thursday. 7pm at BoxingFit Gym, 4/11 Salmon
St, Port Melbourne.
Everybody is welcome to weigh-in.
