On December 12, 2021, Beijing time, the upstart in boxing, Bombardment Boxing Promotion Company, announced that it had signed a contract with Hebert Sousa, the gold medalist in the boxing event at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Herbert Sousa was born on February 28, 1998 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. At this year's Tokyo Olympics, Herbert Sousa reached the final and beat seed boxer Oleksandr Khyzhniak of Ukraine to win a middleweight gold medal, becoming the biggest dark horse in the boxing competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
This was added to Herbert Sousa's previous silver medal in boxing at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, bronze at the 2019 World Championships in Yekaterinburg and bronze in boxing at the 2018 South American Games. It can be said that Herbert Sousa's amateur boxing career has been very successful.
So Herbert Sousa officially decided to switch to professional boxing.
At today's signing ceremony, Herbert Sosa excitedly announced to reporters: "I am pleased to tell you that I will sign a contract with The Promotion Company of Bombardment today. I'm proud of my gold medal at the Olympics earlier this year, and now I'm looking forward to challenging for higher accolades in professional boxing. I'm very excited that I'll be competing not only in Brazil but all over the world in the future, and I can't wait to compete in professional boxing in the near future. ”
As a new member of the Bombard Boxing Promotion Company, Herbert Sosa will become Regis Progres, Norieto Donaire, Downey Nitez, Lee McGregor, Emmentas Stanoz, Arthur Biaslanov, Taras Charlestayak, Richie Burns, Paul Butler, Lewis Lyson, Mohammed Wassem, O'Neill Foster, Hofhannis Bachkov, Darius Fulhen, Eduardo Hernandez, Mark Varsity. Dickinson, Brandon Moore, Jack Bowen, Jason Mary and Francisco Rodriquez are fellow boxers.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Richard Schaefer, president of Probellum Boxing Promotion, told reporters: "We are very pleased to be able to complete such a heavyweight signing again and welcome Herbert Sousa to our team. Although our company is not long established, we have signed many of the best boxers in the world, and Herbert Sousa is one of them, one of the best boxers in Brazil. ”
However, in the interview, Richard Schaefer also admitted that there are some commercial considerations in the signing. Richard Schever told reporters: "We hope to be able to enter markets that would normally not be supported through this signing." We hope that signing Herbert Sousa this time will allow us to take a storm of professional boxing in Brazil and even throughout South America. ”
At the moment, no news has been announced about when Herbert Sosa will make his career debut, and Probellum Boxing Promotion has only revealed that it will be looking for a suitable opponent for Herbert Sosa.
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