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Allentown vs Reading Rumble – Feb. 27

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Travis Kauffman vs Tony Grano

ALLENTOWN RUMBLE FEB. 27th — TICKETS NOW ON SALE

King’s Promotions returns to the Allentown area on Saturday February 27th where they will host an exciting professional and amateur boxing card at the Rodeway Inn & Conference Center at Routes 22 & 309 in Allentown. The event will consist of five professional fights featuring regional fan favorites, as well as five amateur fights featuring the Allentown Boxing Club vs Reading’s King’s Gym.

The professional fights will feature Reading’s Jason Cintron vs Maurice Chalmers. Cintron (11-1), the brother of former welterweight champ Kermit Cintron, is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Martinus Clay at Reading’s Sovereign Center in December. Chalmers (7-9-1) of Lynchburg, VA has faced the likes of Andre Berto and James Kirkland. Also featured will be rising heavyweight prospect Travis Kauffman (18-1) of Reading vs Bernard “Bad Ass” Brown (6-5-2) of Baltimore, MD. Kauffman is looking to rebound from a controversial loss against Tony Grano broadcast on Shobox: The Next Generation. Kauffman was recently featured as one of boxing’s “new faces” in the December issue of Ring magazine. Also, Reading’s Keenan Collins (12-5-2) will face Allentown’s Jorge Delgado (4-8) and Eliud Torres (2-1-2) of Allentown will face Hawaiian native Van Oscar Penovaroff (4-0-1), who currently resides in Reading. Julio Cesar Matthews (9-0) is also scheduled to fight an opponent to be determined. Matthews, a former resident of Allentown who currently resides in Reading, is riding a nine fight winning streak. Bragging rights will be at stake in the amateur portion of the night when fighters from the Allentown Boxing Club challenge their counterparts from Reading’s King’s Gym.

Tickets are priced at $25.00, 50.00 and 65.00 and are now available at the Rodeway Inn (610-395-3731), Kingsboxing.com and the Allentown Boxing Club (Luis Melendez: 484-860-5162). A special student discount of $5.00 off any ticket price will be available at the door only along with proof of student ID. Also, King’s Promotions has announced that a portion of proceeds from each ticket sold will be donated to the Allentown Boxing Club. Doors open at 6:00 pm; first bout starts at 6:30.
Purchase tickets online: http://allentownvsreadingboxing.eventbrite.com

Travis Kauffman vs Tony Grano

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Kauffman looks to get back in the Ring

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

kaufman3Travis Kauffman will be looking to be back in the ring at the end of July. The Reading heavyweight prospect will most likely be on the Showtime Network at the end of July. If Kauffman comes into the fight with the same aggression and confidence it should be a short night. This is a big change from 310 pounds a year ago. (221lbs.)

Kauffman Crushes Castillo / MMA is a Knock Out!

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

tk0908Well for the first time ever in Pa, King’s Promotions hosted an 11 bout card that was mixed with amateur MMA along with some of the finest professional boxers in the State and maybe even the world with Travis Kauffman. The night started off with the boxing first as I wanted to allow those fans that are die hard boxing fans to be able to enjoy themselves and then have the choice to leave if they so desired. Well I saw a lot of people stay to watch the MMA fights. I was very surprised by how many people stayed to watch the MMA & I was surprised myself as too how much I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it so much that I actually would like to do a few more of them, but next time in a cage.

The boxing ended that night with a bang as Travis Kauffman stopped Livin Castillo faster then anyone has ever done in the past. Travis now moves to 17-0 (14 KOs). Travis came out a little slow in the first round as we knew that Castillo would come out swinging with bad intentions. Travis should great compose and a good chin as he ate some shots from Castillo early in round 1.
Travis then made a huge adjustment as he does in most fights and boxed him from a southpaw stance which I think threw him off and allowed Travis to start unleashing some heavy bombs on him. Travis had him out in round 2 but allowed the veteran to hold on and survive the round. In round 3 Travis wasted little time and took care of business by knocking him out at 1:26 of Rd. 3 which was actually 4 seconds faster then Oleg Maskaev

tk0979In the MMA part of the night we had some very competitive fights. The matchmaker Joseph Cunliffe did an outstanding job on making all of the fights very competitive. The Main Event of the MMA was Reading’s own Tony Williams who left all of the fans standing to their feet as he crushed his opponent Jim Gerner with a straight right hand that could not have been thrown any better. Over all it was a sensational night and we at King’s Promotions will be coming back in Sept. 2009

Press Conference & Photos from the DRH

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

“Pain On Penn Street” Press Conferences Photos and Quotes
-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-

-All Photos Credit to Jeff Julian-

presser_09Reading, PA – The fighters preparing for battle this Saturday, May 30 on “Pain on Penn Street” at Reading, PA’s Sovereign Center met face to face for the first time Tuesday at Downtown Reading Hofbrau bar and restaurant. The event, promoted by King’s Promotions, will be the first to feature boxing and mixed martial arts action on the same card in Pennsylvania history.

The main event will feature Reading, PA’s unbeaten heavyweight prospect Travis Kauffman in his toughest test to date, against southpaw Livin Castillo of Ecuador in an eight round contest. Said Travis, “I’m in great shape and I’m expecting a great fight here in Reading on Saturday night. This is a great opportunity to show where I’m at and where I belong in the heavyweight division.”

presser_10Marshall Kauffman, Travis’ father, trainer and promoter of the show, feels his son must rise to the occasion to separate himself from the pack. “This is going to be a tough challenge for Travis. Castillo comes to fight, and he’s faced some of the best in the world. Not only does Travis have to prove a point to the boxing world, he has to prove a point to his hometown of Reading that he’s on that level.”

In the co-featured bout, unbeaten cruiserweight knockout artist Julio Cesar Matthews, a native of Harrisburg, will meet the surging Kamarah Pasley in a six round contest.

Reading heavyweight fan favorite Craig Tomlinson will make his first appearance in five years when he faces Jonathon Felton over six rounds.

presser_11Estaban Rodriguez of Lebanon, PA will meet Pottstown’s Travis Thompson in a rematch of their thrilling bout last September.

Bethlehem’s Ronald Cruz will try to make it five straight without a loss when he faces once-beaten Norman Allen of Maryland.

The rest of the card will be rounded out with ten MMA bouts featuring some of the most talented amateur grapplers in the region.

It was also announced that number one rated heavyweight contender Chris Arreola, 27-0 (24 KO) and his trainer Henry Ramirez will be on hand to watch the fights as well as the weigh-in this Friday. Arreola and Kauffman sparred frequently to help Arreola prepare for his fight last year with Travis Walker.

Tickets, priced at $65, $50, $35 and $25, are on sale now and can be purchased at the Sovereign Center Box Office at 700 Penn Street in Reading (610-898-7200) and at all Ticketmaster outlets (800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com).


Ryan Songalia | Public Relations Coordinator
Boxing Buzz Media
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King’s Gym fighters were victorious against Pittsburgh

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

The day started off at 6:30 am for coach Jason Kauffman & Dennis Rivera who took a team of 6 amateur boxers to Pittsburgh to compete for the City of Pittsburgh to raise funds for the families of the 3 officers that were shot down a few months ago. Jason & Dennis loaded up the van as they waited until the 6 boxers all arrived at King’s Gym. Once they all arrived which was about 6:55am they then got on the road for a 4 hour drive. Also going to Pittsburgh that day was 4 other gyms as well, York Boxing Club, Harrisburg Boxing Club, Phoenixville Pal, & Joltin’s Gym from Reading.

In total there were 11 boxers that would make the drive to compete that day against other boxers from the Pittsburgh area.
King’s Gym had great success in Pittsburgh as they have had at other tournaments as well as the Golden Gloves, but most importantly the best thing about the trip was that they all had fun.

The results of the fights are here for you to see, but the one thing that you don’t get a chance to see is how a trip like this impacts the lives of these young men or women. They continue to build friendship and build self esteem and they learn what it is like to experience different cities and people. It is like when a student is in school and the thing that they look forward to is the class trip at the end of the year, well we at King’s Gym never want that class trip to end. Let’s continue to take these young men & women on class trips at King’s Gym all year long.

King’s Gym helps families in Pittsburgh

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

King’s Gym took 6 boxers to Pittsburgh today 5/23/09 to compete in amateur boxing competition in order to help raise money for the 3 fallen Officers that were shot and killed when responding to a call for domestic violence. The 6 boxers and 2 coaches that made the trip to Pittsburgh were 110lbs. Quincy Staples, 125lbs. Jesus Perez, 132lbs. Frankie Espada, 141lbs. Jose Martinez, 178lbs. Antonio Mitchell, 201+ John Williams, Coaches were Jason Kauffman & Dennis Rivera.

They will arrive in Pittsburgh around 12noon today and then weigh-in and eat and then see the City of Pittsburgh for the first time.

They then will compete at 7pm tonight and then stay in a hotel and come home tomorrow. Let’s keep these young men in our prayers so that they have a safe trip and most importantly that they put on a good show for the fans that came out to support those families of the fallen officers.