Ring 8 Next Meeting, Tuesday, May 17th – Guest Speakers Johnny Turner & Zachary “Zungry” Ochoa
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Ring 8 will be having our meeting on Tuesday May 17th, starting at 7 p.m. ET, at O’Neil’s Restaurant in Maspeth, New York. …Our guest speakers will be Johnny Turner & Zachary “Zungry” Ochoa.
Johnny Turner, who fought from 1975 to 1984 and finished with a pro record of 42-6-2.
Johnny appeared in the Academy Award winning picture “Raging Bull,” with Robert DeNiro, which would chronicle the life of troubled middleweight champion Jake LaMotta. Turner would play the part of French boxer Laurent Dauthuille.
Johnny was just Inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame on May 1st.
Zachary “Zungry” Ochoa
• Fought less than a month ago on Showtime under Premier Boxing Champions as the promoter.
• Faced Brandun Lee who was The Ring Magazine prospect fighter of the year. Brandun was coming off a 15 fighter KO streak which Zachary snapped going the distance of 10 rounds with a unanimous decision for Lee.
• The word prior to the fight was we would get stopped yet we exceeded expectations and received very high praise after the fight including guys like Dan Rafael who praised Zach’s efforts on his podcast the day after.
• Was interviewed on Randy Gordons At The Fights prior to the fight
• Zach has never been knocked down in his professional career. He’s 21-3 with 7 KO’s.
• Has a strong New York buzz
• He was the first boxer to be sponsored by NFT sponsors. Very cool stuff!
• Is Trained by Stephen “Breadman” Edwards from Philly
• Zach left Brooklyn for 9 weeks to train in Philly leaving his family behind
• PBC and Showtime aka Stephen Espinosa assured us we will be back and was impressed with the efforts. Hoping to fight again within 6 months