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EPISODE: Episode 24
Denzel Whitley (8-0-0) is a Pro Boxer out of Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States
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What up talking fight fans thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of knuckle up with mike orr and cedric ben in the den bringing you the young, hungry, undefeated other discovered prospects from around the world? And yes, the only channel out here doing it.
Today we are talking about a promotional company.
That’S up and coming uh quickly, rising gaining a lot of notoriety here and we’re talking about granite, chin promotions, uh, and we are talking about denzel whitley.
Definitely kid to watch.
Eight, no six knockouts man in the welterweight division he’s ranked 153 out of 395 in the united states right now, 705th.
I know 1934 in the world and this kid is from holyoke massachusetts.
Let’S talk about him cedric.
What do you think yeah yeah yeah always got a good uh good, knockout percentage so far earlier in this career um, i only got a chance to watch one or two of his amateur fights and you could you could still you can see.
He already had a professional style, even even even in the amateurs um.
The one thing: that’s always the question is: if is if your your power is gon na carry uh when you’re fighting against grown men and uh so far it has.
You know with six knockouts out of eight fights, so yeah he’s doing well, yeah, definitely um he’s scheduled he’s scheduled for two bouts already uh.
One of them is june, the 25th against olair da silva and that scheduled for six rounds and uh he’s also scheduled for august, the sixth busy busy fighter here, man and um.
Honestly, i can’t wait to see this kid in the ring.
We do have a clip of him uh.
I want to run this clip just show you guys this quick 30.
Second clip of this kid in the ring.
I believe it’s coming off of his last bite, which was a tko in the third round.
Can we run that this is a very, very well-placed body shot well-timed? Honestly, it was so quick.
You guys might have missed that one yeah, let’s see it again here – comes ready duck’s out of the way.
Oh just connects with that right right right on the button man right on that button.
Honestly, he wasn’t recouping from that uh yo.
Let me tell you about this kid though man denzel double impact, whitley uh, you know he comes from a well-known new england fighting family.
His father, derek and uncle um darren both started their professional careers in the mid 90s and now denzel is doing his best to keep his family name alive and well in the sport and thus far the undefeated up and coming.
Welterweight prospect is doing just that.
Uh, derek and darren had 52 and 44 professional votes over 13 and nine years respectively.
They each won the massachusetts state title in 2001 in separate weight classes.
Derek is the super middleweight division and darren is a super lightweight division.
Denzel denzel’s older brother, derek jr, is a professional boxer who holds a record right now of six three and one who fights in the same division as he does.
His younger brother devin started his amateur career this year, uh.
He recently fought at the new england golden gloves and made it to the semi-finals.
So this 23 year old, orthodox boxer born and raised in holyoke massachusetts has been extremely active, especially nowadays with kovid uh, as he prepares for his ninth fight in uh 15 months.
His promoter, granite chin promotions, has kept him busy, putting him on his local fight cards, for of which he has co-headlined.
Honestly, i can’t wait to see this kid man, um touretti, the guy who owns branded chain promotions, is also a professional fighter.
Uh with 30 wins.
Four losses with 24 karos chaos and winner of nine in a row uh.
He started his promotional company back in 2011 over the last decade, he’s put on 30 fight cards and signed 20 fighters, including denzel to his roster, making granite chin promotions, one of the fastest growing promotional companies in new england, uh denzel’s next belt, coming up uh.
I believe it said july.
I can’t wait to see this one.
It’S going to be a great fight.
Sorry, it’s june june, the 26th uh this one’s gon na be great man.
This kid he’s one of those kids, that’s just elusive.
He’S got great defense, good speed, good power uh his ring iq is, is amazing and uh for such a young guy.
You know his professional career is off to an unbeaten start because of his hard-hitting aggressive and power, puncher style uh.
You know he does not back down from anyway.
He displays good ring, uh, generalship, excellent defense and can adapt quickly in the ring.
Denzel is also extremely dedicated and motivated to boxing um, and he has seen an intense work ethic in which he is always willing to learn and get better.
Each day you know, derek is uh, has trained denzel throughout his boxing career at his gym, the whitley brothers boxing and fitness in holyoke, which he co-owns with his brother darren for close to 30 years now, so denzel has been training non-stop since his last fight and While his father and him haven’t seen er, you know, i am a community over the relationship nowadays, it’s it’s kind of the case right.
So this kid he’s one of these guys that we got to watch out for honestly he’s an open comer.
You know new one.
This kid undefeated, eight, no six knockouts honestly.
I want to run that video.
If we can one more time to show everybody uh just give us a second and we’ll bring it up.
Definitely i want you to look at how well placed and well timed this body shot [ Applause ].
He ducks out of the way of that overhand right from his opponent and times it perfectly with that.
Uh that right hand right to the midsection there, man and jester awesome what a vicious vicious body shot.
Man uh honestly, this is what we can expect from this kid uh.
Every time he’s out, man he’s sporting, a great uh knockout percentage and again he’s scheduled man july 25th august 6th he’s already ready to go.
Man he’s keeping really really busy.
You know eight nine fights over a 15-month period.
Covent has not slowed this kid down.
He’S on every local event, with uh with granite chin promotions and uh.
You know he’s one of these kids that we’re gon na have to watch out for in the future.
Senator do you have anything you want to say about the kid before we uh? We wrap up for the day, nah man so he’s just interested to see uh if they’re gon na.
If he’s gon na, be able to continue this uh his power power streak as he moves up in the rank.
So it’s gon na be very interesting to to watch that and follow his career.
Definitely you know he has gained invaluable fighting experience by sparring with former uh nabf and nabo featherweight titleholders matt, uh millard and undefeated uh undefeated sharon, collier and zach ramsey, among others, man.
So he does have this experience.
He is fighting some guys who are wearing belts and uh.
Honestly, it shows in his ring, like you, young kid hungry, undefeated up and coming undiscovered, not too many people know about this kid, not too many people know about this granite chain promotions.
That’S why this week we are featuring granite, chim promotions throughout the week and their undefeated up-and-coming prospects to be looking out, for you heard it here on knuckle up at four with mike r and cedric ben in the den doing what we do best and that’s bringing You, the young, hungry, undefeated, undiscovered prospects from around the world, and you know we’re the only ones out here doing it.
Man so we’ll see you tomorrow same time same channel new prospect knuckle up.
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