June 1st, 2021 Bad Brad
The main event on the June 26th “Breakout” card, presented by Granite Chin Promotions, matches two New England heavyweights heading in opposite directions, Steve “The Gentle Giant” Vukosa (13-1, 5 KOs) and “Fly” Mike Marshall (5-1, 4 KOs).
The evening card of another Granite Chin day-night doubleheader (separate admissions) is headlined by the 10-round main event for the vacant NABA United States Heavyweight Championship between Vukosa (13-1, 5 KOs) who will possibly be fighting for the final time – win, lose or draw and reigning New England heavyweight champion Marshall.
Vukosa, fighting of out Quincy, MA, is a former WBC U.S. Heavyweight Champion, which he captured in 2019 when he won an 8-round unanimous decision against Joe Cusumano (18-2, 16 KOs). During his 20-year pro boxing career, Vukosa’s gained invaluable experience sparring at the famed Wild Card Boxing gym in Los Angeles as a sparring partner for world champions James Ton
Positive news following a difficult year for gyms.
The Nonantum Club closed last March due to COVID-19 for nearly four months and then again just before the holidays. Classes had been full and an after-school youth program was beginning to gain popularity.
“All that went out the window,” Gargaro said of the Adams Street gym he helped found with cousin Nathan Busa in 2008. “We went from full out to zero in a matter of weeks. It was really tough.”
Gargaro departs this week for a month-long training camp in Colorado Springs before departing June 30 for an acclimation camp in Japan. The Tokyo Olympics are scheduled for July 23 to Aug. 8.
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Gophers senior Shane Wiskus was named the co-gymnast of the week by the College Gymnastics Association on Tuesday.
He was the conference co-champion in the all-around (84.700) along with Michigan s Cameron Bock, the other co-gymnast of the week and won three individual event titles at the Big Ten Championships this past Saturday.
The titles were the first four in the Big Ten meet of his career.
Shoreview women on Olympic sailing team
Shoreview native Lara Dallman-Weiss, a Mounds View High School graduate and member of White Bear Yacht Club, was named to the U.S. Olympic team for sailing.
In baseball, a batting average of .200 even .250 won’t win a lot of games.
But in another hitting sport, 10 New Mexico amateur boxers traveled to Shreveport, Louisiana, for last week’s USA Boxing National Championships. Two of them won titles; another made the finals.
Percentage-wise, that’s a pretty good haul.
Saturday night, Las Cruces’ Ariana Carrasco overwhelmed Texan Ruby Navarro in winning the women’s Youth Division (ages 17-18) 141-pound title. The bout was stopped in the second round, giving Carrasco the victory by RSC (referee stopped contest).
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On Tuesday, Las Cruces’ Joscelyn Olayo-Muñoz defeated Californian Mia Garcia by split (4-1) decision for the women’s Intermediate (13-14) 95-pound title.