Witherspoon, Mcline headline boxing at the Arena

Press Release: OCTOBER 30, 2009

It will be a sensational night of boxing on Friday night December 11th as Greg Robinson’s Power Productions Boxing Ringside presents a night of boxing featuring some of the best local talent in the area that will be headlined by local return of one of the top heavyweights in the world in Chazz Witherspoon.

The nine bout card will take place at The Arena in South Philadelphia.

Witherspoon of Paulsboro, New Jersey brings in a record of 26-1 with eighteen knockouts and is riding a three fight knockout streak since his only blemish to former world title challenger Chris Arreola on June 21st, 2008.

Since then, Witherspoon has stopped Adam “The Swamp Donkey” Richards (22-1), Travis Fulton and Willie Perryman.

This will be Witherspoon’s first area appearance since February 15, 2008 when he stopped Jonathan Haggler in four rounds in Sewell, New Jersey.

Witherspoon’s opponent for the eight round main event will be announced shortly.

Fresh off of his emphatic victory over Tyric Robinson on October 16th, the popular Victor Vasquez will see action in a six round Lightweight bout.

Vasquez, 10-3 with five knockouts put on his most complete performance to date as he boxed well and showed improved defense in his first fight under new trainer Chris Rotella.

Vasquez will take on a opponent to be named.

Undefeated and popular are two words to describe light heavyweight Tony Ferrante and on December 11th he will be in the ring to risk that record in front of his hundreds of adoring fans.

Ferrante of Northeast Philadelphia has a record of 8-0 with half of those wins coming early. In his last bout, Ferrante scored a very tough and hard earned majority decision over tough Billy Bailey on July 10th at The Arena.

In a six round Light Heavyweight bout, it will be an all Philadelphia showdown as Tommie “Big Poppa” Speller battles Jameel “Black Gold” Wilson.

Speller of Philadelphia has a record of 4-3 with three knockouts and is desperate to get back in the win column as he has dropped three in a row that includes his last bout where he and Mario Mina engaged in a four round war before Speller dropped the four round unanimous decision on October 16th at The Legendary Blue Horizon.

Wilson of Philadelphia is even more desperate as he has dropped five in a row and is 0-12-1 in his last thirteen against top flight competition such as Tarvis Simms, Antuon Echols, LaJuan Simon, and Elvir Muriqi.

Wilson is now 13-16-3 with eight knockouts is coming off an eight round unanimous decision defeat to Willie Williams (11-2) last November 26 in Maryland.

“This fight is what Philly boxing is all about”, said Greg Robinson, CEO of Power Productions.

“This is a Philly turf war and there can be only one winner.”

South Philly’s John Mecurio (3-0, 3 KO’s) will take on an opponent to be named in a four round Heavyweight bout.

Impressive Super Featherweight, Coy Evans (5-0-1) will risk his undefeated mark in a four round bout.

Lou Rodriguez (1-0) of Philadelphia will take part in a four round Welterweight tussle.

Freakish 6’4” inch Middleweight, Derrick Webster (3-0, 2 KO’s) of Glassboro, NJ will make his third appearance at The Arena in a four round bout.

Rounding out the card will be Wahid Raheem (3-0, 1 KO) of Philadelphia in a four round Super Featherweight bout. Raheem is the brother of Lightweight contender Zahir Raheem.

Tickets for this fantastic evening of boxing cost Ringside $125 for VIP 75, $65 for Box Seats and $40 for Floor seats and can be purchased by calling 215-240-9987 or 267-912-8747.