‘Black Lion’ Kingsley Ibeh headlines Toro Promotions show in El Salvador
Heavyweight contenders Kingsley Ibeh (15-2-1, 13 KOs) and Gerald Washington (21-6-1) will headline a September 20 card staged by Toro Promotions at Gimnasio Nacional José Adolfo Pineda in San Salvador, the Central American country’s capital city, reports ringmagazine.com.
“With El Salvador attracting astronomical ardour and investment to again as a regional and world hub for boxing and MMA, Toro Promotions is spearheading this endeavour,” said Toro Promotions CEO Azat Torosyan.
“We're proud to advertise and living up the predominant worldwide authentic boxing match in El Salvador. Toro Promotions also welcomes the different to work with dilapidated Illinois Boxing Commissioner Joel Campuzano and his expert physique of workers to originate sure the best likely world requirements of safety and equity for athletes competing beneath our banner.”
“The Shadowy Lion” Ibeh is using a five-fight stoppage traipse in which his bouts obtain lasted a complete of six rounds. Ibeh, a 31-365 days-former Nigerian basically basically based in Arizona, U.S., has revived his profession with an total 10-fight winning traipse after a knockout loss to Jared Anderson in 2021 and combating to a contrivance in opposition to Guido Vianello in ‘20.
Washington, 43, is former to the astronomical stage and modified into once beforehand a mainstay on PBC displays. The dilapidated title challenger holds a profession-easiest knockout exhaust in opposition to Robert Helenius in 2019 but has lost to Deontay Wilder, Jarrell Miller, Adam Kownacki, Charles Martin, and Derek Chisora in between. The dilapidated USC college football player is 3-6 since 2017.
