Just received this email from Mark Jovich of Central Pennsylvania Warrior Challenge, who is handling the MMA matchmaking for the event:
Reading, PA – King’s Promotions will hold the weigh-in for this Friday’s “Pain on Penn Street 2″ Boxing/MMA hybrid show the day before – this Thursday – at 6:30 PM sharp at the historic Abraham Lincoln Hotel in downtown Reading, PA. The event will be open to the public.
The Abraham Lincoln Hotel is located at 100 N Fifth Street in Reading, PA.
The event takes place December 4 at the Sovereign Center in Reading, PA and will feature five professional boxing matches and ten mixed martial arts bouts.
In keeping with the holiday spirit, King’s Promotions will donate $.50 of each ticket sale to benefit The St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In addition to patient care, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is dedicated to finding cures for illnesses that affect children worldwide.
In the main event of the boxing portion of the card, hard-hitting cruiserweight Julio Cesar Matthews of Harrisburg, PA will face tough upset specialist Harvey Jolly of Adrian, Michigan in a six round bout. Matthews, 8-0 (5 KO), will be in against his sternest test with Jolly, who at 10-11-1 (5 KO) has one of the most deceiving records in boxing. Jolly has spoiled four unbeaten fighters, including his last opponent, the previously 12-0 Nicholas Ianuzzi whom Jolly knocked out in the very first round.
The original main event featuring Reading heavyweight Travis Kauffman fell out as Kauffman has been recovering from a hip injury and the flu.
Local heavyweight favorite Craig Tomlinson will also return to action against Willie Palms of Jersey City, NJ in a fight scheduled for six rounds. Tomlinson, 24-15-1 (13 KO), has faced a who’s who in the division over the course of his 16-year career. Palms, a US National Amateur Super Heavyweight champion in 1997, has worked as a sparring partner for most of the top heavyweights of the last decade, including the heavyweight champion Klitschko Brothers.
Making his Reading debut, light-welterweight Van Oscar Penovaroff of Kailua Kona, Hawaii will face Francisco Palacios of Stamford, CT in a six round bout. Penovaroff, 4-0 (3 KO), is the newest protege’ of Marshall Kauffman. He traveled with the 2004 US Olympic team to Athens, Greece to prepare them for competition. Penovaroff attended Northern Michigan University with Travis Kauffman in the amateur boxing program.
Jason Cintron, brother of former welterweight champion Kermit Cintron, will return to action in a six-round contest against Martinus Clay of Philadelphia. Cintron, 10-1 (3 KO), is rebounding from his first defeat and will look to feed off the hometown love to get back on track.
Keenan Collins of York, PA will face Clarence “Sonny Bono” Taylor of Wilmington, DE in a six-round junior middleweight bout. Collins, 12-5-2 (8 KO), is up against another upset specialist in Taylor, who had knocked out a 9-0 prospect two fights earlier.
The MMA action will be run by Mark Jovich’s Central Pennsylvania Warrior Challenge, the leader in Pennsylvania mixed martial arts action.
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) or at all Ticketmaster outlets (800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com). Doors open at 6PM and first fight starts at 7PM.
For more information on how to donate to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, visit https://shop.stjude.org/GiftCatalog/express-donation.do?fnl=don_sin
