Camp Get Right Boxing Gym continuing Worcester’s rich boxing history
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 10 Oct 2024
“Worcester Championship Boxing” Nov. 1 at DCU Event Center in Worcester, MA
QUINCY, Mass. (October 9, 2024) – Camp Get Right Boxing Gym, owned and operated by Ken Ball, Sr., during the past 16 years has developed into not only the place to go for pro and amateur boxers in Greater Worcester, but it is also inarguably one of the premier boxing facilities in all of New England.
Worcester’s rich boxing history dates back one-hundred years. Central Massachusetts city has produced two world champions, one Olympian and numerous professional and amateur fighters in the elite category.
Four current products of Camp Get Right will be on display November 1st at the famed DCU Center as Granite Chin Promotions (GCP) presents the “Worcester Championship Boxing” card, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
“The DCU Center is a good venue, and this card has a lot of good fighters on it,” Ball said. There won’t be a lot going on that night, so people should attend to check out these local fighters. I think the success we’ve had at Camp Get Right is due to veteran trainers like Daniel Almonte, who has trained a couple of world champions, and Chico Lopez, and Carlos Garcia (“The Godfather of Worcester boxing”) has come by our gym to help since he retired (as boxing director at the Worcester Boys & Girls Club).”
Bell will be involved with several of the fighters from his gym who will be in action Nov. 1, either as a trainer, cutman or manager, led by veteran Khiary “TooSharp” Gray (18-7, 13 KOs), who Ball serves as head trainer. Gray, who is a former New England and UBF International champion, is scheduled to fight junior middleweight Daniel “The Hudson Valley Kid” Sostre (13-26-2, 5 KOs) in a six-round match.
Gray said, “TooSharp’ Khiary Gray is coming back to make it known that nothing’s going to hold me back from being world champion.”
Millbury (MA) welterweight Justin LaPorte (1-0, 1 KO), a two-time New England Golden Gloves champion, is a licensed realtor (Justin LaPorte Agency) who served in the U.S. Marines, and presently studies at Nichols College. The 24-year-old southpaw is trained at Camp Get Right by one of Worcester’s all-time best boxers, Sean “Fitzy” Fitzgerald. He faces Rakim Johnson in a four-rounder.
LaPorte said: “I’m really excited and grateful to fight in the DCU Center. It’s a venue with a rich history of great fights and fighters, and I can’t wait to put on a show right in my hometown. My preparation has been solid, and I’ve been working harder than ever to improved so I can deliver and even better performance than in my professional debut.”
Worcester junior middleweight Jhon “D-Wave” Devers Rodriguez (1-0, 1 KOs), also a two-time New England Golden Gloves champion, was born in Puerto Rico and moved to the U.S. when he was seven, followed two years later by his resettlement in Worcester. Trained at Camp Get Right by Mickey Ramos, “D-Wave” started boxing six years ago.
“Rodriguez said: “I’m feeling great and I’m excited to be part of a big hometown event. I’m training hard, focused, and disciplined. Working at The Gun Parlor and training are my two main focuses. I’m also practicing more and perfecting everything with my coach, Michael Ramos.”
The oldest and most popular Worcester boxer right now is welterweight “Grafton Hill’s Favorite Son” Dan Docimo (1-0, 1 KO), who meets Jaequez Jones (0-3) in a four-round fight. The 36-year-old Docimo has been a locksmith for the past 17 years for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is trained at Camp Get Right by Owen Minor, who Ball trained as a boxer.
Docimo said: “I will have Owen and Rashad Minor in my corner as head trainer and cutman. And Peter Manfredo, Jr. (retired boxer and world title challenger from Providence) will be my chief second. I’m blessed to be here. It’s an honor to have these men believe in me. We’re going to prove over and over again that, as Worcester’s oldest registered boxer, old dogs can still hunt.”
For business reasons, Camp Get Right is moving into a new location in a few weeks, prior to the show, to 376 West Boylston Street in Worcester.
Another Worcester fighter, Jake Paradise (8-3, 8 KOs), takes on undefeated Kevin “Big Gulp” Nagle (9-0, 7 KOs) in an eight-round bout for the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) USA Silver Heavyweight Championship.
The stacked GCP event is headlined by a great 10-round main event as Josniel “TG” Castro (13-1, 8 KOs), fighting out of Boca Raton (FL), defends his newly captured WBC U.S. super welterweight title versus undefeated challenger and reigning Junior North American Boxing Federation champion Denzel “Double Impact” Whitley (14-0, 8 KOs), of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Ball will be in Castro’s corner.
Card subject to change.
Tickets are on sale at www.ticketmaster.com. Doors open at 6 pm ET, first bout at 7 pm ET.
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