Heavyweight Kevin Nagle dedicates pro run to his children

Heavyweight Kevin Nagle (1-0, 1 KO), preventing out of Scituate (MA), has actually taken a circuitous path to skilled boxing.

The 39-year-old Nagle might be in motion Saturday night time, June tenth, in a four-round match in opposition to Reinaldo Souza (0-1) on the “Combat Evening on the Vets Membership” card, offered by Granite Chin Promotions’ (GCP), on the Veterans Membership in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Nagle, who began boxing when he was 10, made his skilled debut this previous February in Melrose (MA), stopping Aquilla Prote within the second spherical.

Boxing was put to the facet by Nagle when he performed highschool soccer at South Shore Regional Vocational Technical, after which whereas he performed rugby after he graduated from highschool, previous to him becoming a member of the Nationwide Guard at 20 and going besides camp.

He needed to select up boxing once more upon his return house from camp and reconnected with a few of his coaches from his early days on the Pembroke Boxing Membership, after which he began coaching on the famed Petronelli Fitness center in Brockton. Kevin had a quick newbie boxing profession, highlighted by him reaching the semifinals of the New England Golden Gloves.

In 2006, he was deployed to Kosovo after which he volunteered for a six-months stint in Iraq when his firm was deployed there. As soon as his Nationwide Guard dedication was fulfilled, he joined Native 223 as a laborer.

Later, he took CNA lessons and Kevin was accountable for dementia care on the Veterans Administration (VA). He attended nursing faculty and has been a psychiatric nurse for the previous eight years on the Brockton VA.

Nagle needed to field once more and after native boxer/coach Mark DeLuca hooked him up in 2014 with Steve Vukosa (14-1-1, 5 KOs), a former New England Heavyweight Champion, and Kevin has been Steve’s major sparring associate ever since.

However why did it take so lengthy for Nagle to hitch professional boxing’s ranks?

“I had children, and my spouse didn’t let me struggle,” Nagle defined. “Once we separated, my first name was to Steve, not a lawyer, and I advised him it was time to get again into boxing and I wanted to get into form. Steve launched me to (promoter) Chris Traietti, who I had watched struggle, and he stated he’d get me one struggle. Boxing has helped me be centered with all I’m going via.

“My purpose with Steve was for me to go professional. I needed to perform that for my children and completed it. Something that occurs now in boxing is like having a cherry on high. I needed to indicate my children that I didn’t surrender on my dream. I needed to be a soldier and did that, too. My total purpose is to work my approach as much as a aggressive struggle. I’m only a loopy, previous man working within the gymnasium with Steve and Martin Grealish. This expertise is holding me centered, I’m not making an attempt to take over the boxing world.”

“When Steve Vukosa first approached me about Kevin turning professional,” Traietti added, “I didn’t actually take it overly critical at first, however I knew Kevin. I sincerely favored him on a private degree, so I gave him a name and we chatted. As soon as he advised me about his present state of affairs, I knew he was critical, and this was vital to him. He’s 39 years previous and doesn’t have any aspirations of some lengthy profession, however he needs a possibility to get on an enormous card and get the expertise of preventing on a nationwide stage. Happily, for him, that’s precisely what I can do for my guys. The plan is to maintain him energetic in 2023 with a handful of fights and get him the large expertise he’s in search of in 2024.”

Julien “Black Dragon” Baptiste (4-2, 2 KOs), of Woburn (MA), and New Hampshire’s Ryan Thomas Clark (2-3. 1 KO) throw-down within the six-round predominant occasion for the vacant United States Boxing Federation (USBF) middleweight title.

Additionally slated to struggle on the “Combat Evening on the Vets Membership” are former New England Welterweight Champion Mike “Unhealthy Man” Ohan, Jr. (17-2, 9 KOs), of Holbrook (MA), vs. William Parra Smith (4-14-1, 3 KOs) in an eight-round bout; unbeaten Lynn (MA).tremendous middleweight James “Pitbull” Perkins (11-0-1, 8 KOs) vs. TBA in a six-rounder; and Boston light-weight Arika Skoog (1-0-1, 1 KO), the 2020 USA Boxing Elite Nationwide and a number of New England Golden Gloves champion, vs. Sarah “Change Kick” Click on (1-4-1).

Card topic to alter.

Tickets are priced at $60.00 (ground seats), $40.00 (standing room solely), and $400.00 for ringside tables of 4 can be found for buy at granite chin promotions.

Doorways open at 6:30 p.m. ET, first bout at 7 p.m. ET.