Category Archives: California Boxing

Garden Casino, Hawaiian Gardens, California – Upcoming Fight Card

On November 9th SOCA Fights’ fourth and final installment of The Gardens Casino Fight Night will be be one for the combat sports ages. You can only see it at one place and that’s The Event Center at The Gardens Casino in Hawaiian Gardens, CA. Tickets are priced at $60 & $90 for front row and are available at www.socafights.com. The Gardens Casino Fight Night is without a doubt the most fun you can have on a Saturday night in the Southland!

Headlining this powerhouse fight card is Kazakstan’s Madiyar Ashkeyev 13-0 (6 KOs). Ashkeyev will be putting up his perfect record against Walter Wright 17-8 (8 KO’s) for the vacant WBC USNBC Championship in a 10 round war! This bout promises to be a slugfest from the opening bell so it’s the perfect bout to close out our 2019 Gardens Casino Fight Night season.

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Orange County, California – Upcoming Fight Card

This coming Thursday, October 10, 2019 Fight Club OC will return with our unique hybrid show consisting of pro boxing and pro MMA to The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center! This six bout event is sure to feature crushing KO’s, split-second submissions, and the kind of combat sports experience you won’t get anywhere else in the Orange County. The second to last Fight Club OC show of 2019 takes place on Thursday night in Costa Mesa, CA with tickets available at www.socafights.com

All seats can be had for the very low price of $60.

Headlining the boxing side will be Maywood’s Jose Casillas 2-0 (2KOs) vs. Lake Elsinore’s Jorge Porras 0-2-1. Do not let Porras record fool you! He is a crafty boxer and he promises to not be fazed by the heavy-handed Casillas. Their four round featherweight bout is expected to be a hotly contested war. Fight Club OC is known for its headliners closing the show and Casillas and Porras plan to follow in that rich tradition!

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Lee Espinoza: The Unsung Hero of the Coachella Valley Boxing Club

By Gene Aguilera / Boxing Hall of Fame Author, East LA Music Historian, University of Southern California Graduate

(l to r) Boxing author Gene Aguilera, Manager Lee Espinoza, and
Mexican boxing great Carlos Zarate / Lee’s office (8-21-19)

Lee Espinoza, 71, is one of those special people in boxing.  When you first meet him, it feels like you’ve known him forever.  Mr. Espinoza has spent the last 42 years in boxing as a manager and trainer in the Coachella Valley, which is in the middle of the desert in Southern California, close to Indio and Palm Springs.  Today, he is proud of the 9,000 square foot Lee Espinoza Coachella Valley Boxing Club (named after him with all due respect) that serves the professional and amateur boxing world in the Coachella Valley.  Born in Michoacan, Mexico, Lee has travelled the world faithfully working the corners of his boxers that come out of his famed gym.       

Lee’s boxing club (complete with two boxing rings) has a true vision of producing world champions as well as keeping the bad boys of the neighborhood off the streets and in the ring; local politicians (of Riverside County) truly appreciate the work Lee does for the youth.  The walls of his office and gym make you feel like you are in a boxing hall of fame museum, as they are filled with posters and photographs of boxing’s all-time greats.           

Inside the Lee Espinoza Coachella Valley Boxing Club
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Orange County, California – Upcoming Fight Card

On August 22nd, The Fight Club OC show will once again take over The Hangar at the OC Fair and Event Center! This August card will showcase the culmination of the first ever female Flyweight MMA tournament that started last April! The stacked card will also see the return of Fight Club OC fan favorite Malcolm McAllister! All the action happens in beautiful Costa Mesa, CA with tickets available at www.socafights.com, All seats priced at the low, low price of $60 with some tickets available in our new Grandstands for only $50 a Seat!

Headlining this card will be the final bout in the first ever, female, flyweight tournament between Fullerton’s Laura Gallardo 1-0 and Los Angeles’s Natalie Morgan 1-0! These two warriors beat the odds to vanquish their two opponents, and now they meet in a 3 round MMA war to determine who is the Fight Club OC Flyweight Champion!

Long Beach’s hometown hero in Malcolm McAllister 9-3 (8KOs) returns to Fight Club OC and he’s better than ever as he goes up against Victorville’s Rowdy Montgomery 5-2-1 (4KOs)! “Mac” has been away for awhile and Montgomery would love nothing more than to make his homecoming as Rowdy as possible! Scheduled for 6 rounds this middleweight contest could very well end at any time…

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Garden Casino and Fight Club Orange County, California – Upcoming Fight Cards … plus Mike Tyson’s Charity Golf Tournament

Fight Fans … prepare to supersize your summer with a Fight Show Doubleheader and a chance to golf with Mike Tyson. Now you can fill your August activities calendar with these three great events.

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Orange County, California – Upcoming Fight Card


CELEBRATE 50th SHOW WITH US JUNE 13th

It is not often that a fight promotion can celebrate 50 shows at one location, but come Thursday, June 13th Fight Club OC will celebrate its 50th show inside The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center. And the number 50 has a special meaning as the evening will start early at 6pm with 50 cent hot dogs and 50 cent drinks served inside our all new SUMMER PARTY PATIO.

On June 13th tables and chairs will be placed around the Summer Party Patio for fans to relax, enjoy their hot dogs, have a drink, or smoke a cigar before the show begins. The Hangar doors will be open all the way to unveil not only our Cigar Lounge, but an area to get your photo taken with our Tecate Ring Card Girls and a place for fans to test drive the latest Super73 Electric Motorbikes. Even better, Super73 has agreed to give away a Super73 Z-1 to one lucky Fight Club OC fan at our December 5th show, and all you have to do is enter to win at any Fight Club OC show.

Fight Club OC’s June 13th show will kick your summer into high gear as SOCA Fights presents this six bout card that will feature blistering boxing and MMA action from the only hybrid boxing show in the land! Tickets are available at www.socafights.com with all seats priced at $60!

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Garden Casino Upcoming Fight Night – Hawaiian Gardens, California

May 18, 2019 is going to shake Hawaiian Gardens to it’s coconuts as SOCA Fights presents our second installment of The Gardens Casino Fight Night! This six bout card will feature great action including a women’s NABO Middleweight Title Fight, and it all takes place at The Events Center at The Gardens Casino in Hawaiian Gardens. Tickets are available at www.socafights.com with all seats priced at $60!

Headlining this epic night of pugilism will be undefeated Raquel Miller from San Francisco, CA (9-0 / 3 KOs) taking on former American Gladiator Erin (Steel) Toughill from Huntington Beach (7-4-1) in an 8 round NABO Middleweight Title Fight. Miller is ranked 5th in the world. Toughill is ranked 6th. The winner of this fight has a legitimate shot at meeting World Champion Clarissa Shields.

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Orange County, California – Upcoming (ESPN) Fight Card

IBF #1 heavyweight Kubrat (26-1, 13 KOs) will put his rating on the line against Bogdan Dinu (18-1, 14 KOs) in a 10-round showdown on Saturday, March 23 at The Hangar in Costa Mesa, Calif. In the co-feature, former world champions Jessie Magdaleno (25-1, 18 KOs) and Rico Ramos (30-5, 13 KOs) will clash in a 10-round featherweight bout with potential world title implications.

Tickets for this show are priced at $60. and $75. and can be purchased on line at www.socafights.com


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Orange County, California – Upcoming Fight Card

Eight years down and our ninth year of Fight Club OC shows begins on February 21, 2019 and TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT www.socafights.com.

To all the fans who have supported Fight Club OC shows over the years a huge thank you from Roy Englebrecht Promotions and for making the Fight Club OC shows “the most fun you can have on a Thursday night in Orange County”.

In 2019 fans will once again enjoy the only hybrid pro boxing show and martial arts regular scheduled show in the Southland but they will see the launch of our new Ringside Grandstands section. This will give The Hangar more of an arena look with three grandstand sections located in Section C under the video board that will accommodate 210 fans and increase capacity to 1,260 fans.

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Garden Casino Fight Night Tickets On Sale Now – Big Opening Night Set

When Roy Englebrecht Promotions kicks off their new four date hybrid fight series at the new ultra-modern Gardens Casino in Hawaiian Gardens, CA on Saturday, February 9th, fans will not only get to see some of the best undefeated boxing talent in Southern California, some great mixed martial arts action, and if that wasn’t enough they will also get to enjoy the most beautiful new casino in Southern California. It will all take place in the Casino’s Events Center as this new series titled the Gardens Casino Fight Night, puts all tickets priced at just $60, on sale today at www.socafights.com.

The February 9th show line up of boxers and mma fighters were introduced recently at a special Press Luncheon at the Gardens Casino. On the boxing side fight fans will see: undefeated 8-0 super middleweight out of Anaheim, Jonathan Esquivel; undefeated 9-0 super bantamweight Humberto “Filly” Rubalcava out of Westminster; 7-0 super featherweight Anthony Casillas out of South Gate; and 1-0 bantamweight Anthony Ramirez out of Fontana. These four undefeated boxers will bring a perfect 25-0 record with 18 knockouts into the Events Center.

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