39th Annual IBF Meet The Champions Event » May 7, 2024

Report/Photos: Boxing Bob Newman

For starters, this wasn’t a typical IBF Meet the Champions cocktail party. The champions present were not only IBF champions, nor only from Puerto Rico, this event was a real banquet! Several hundred guests were present.

Puerto Rico WBO President Francisco Paco Valcarcel was in attendance.

The champions present were:
Ginjiro Shigeoka, Tomoki Kameda, Antoine Vanackere, Chantelle Cameron, Amanda Serrano, Miyo Yoshida, Michael Nunn, Juan LaPorte, Alberto Machado, Daniel Santos, Felix Trinidad, Rafael Del Valle, Wilfredo Mendez, Alfredo Escalera, Ivan Calderon and Shane Mosley.

Dmitriy Salita was honored as USBA Promoter of the Year and he also accepted the plaque for USBA Fight of the Year – the USBA light heavyweight title fight between Ali Ismailov and Charles Foster, which was a promotional Salita.

Amanda Serrano accepted her ring for three defenses of her featherweight title as well as the Female Fighter of the Year award.

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