Card shaping up for April 19 fight night at Harrahs Philadelphia

CHESTER, PA - A Pennsylvania State Light Heavyweight title bout between champion Dhafir Smith and Anthony Caputo-Smith headlines the next night of boxing at Harrahs Philadelphiaset for April 19.

Smith, an Upper Darby native, often tackles tough competition and has a deceiving record of 26-23-7 with four knockouts. He won the Pennsylvania state title with a ten round unanimous decision over Tony Ferrante on May 4, 2012 and in his last bout, Smith dropped a ten round unanimous decision to Umberto Savigne (9-1) on November 30, 2012.

Caputo-Smith of Kennett Square has a record of 13-1 with ten knockouts and has developed into a fan favorite in the Delaware Valley area. He turned pro in 2009 and the 27-year-old won his first thirteen bouts before being stopped by Kevin Engel on August 31, 2012.

In a six round co-Feature, Victor Vasquez (16-7-1, 7 KOs) of Philadelphia takes on Chazz McDowell (6-3, 1 KO) of New York in a lightweight contest.


Other bouts include junior middleweights DeCarlo Perez (9-2-1, 3 KOs) taking on Julius Kennedy (7-4-1, 3 KOs) and Chester junior welterweight bout, Julio DeJesus (7-3-3, 4 KOs)  battling Ariel Duran (7-3-1, 4 KOs) of New York.

Undefeated Javontae Starks (6-0, 5 KOs) of Minneapolis takes on an opponent to be named in a six round junior middleweight affair and welterweight Anthony Prescott (1-1-1, 1 KO) of Cherry Hill squares off with Terrell Boggs (0-5) of Philadelphia.

Others bouts scheduled include Althea Saunders (3-0-1) of Atlantic City, NJ taking on an opponent to be named in a four round junior welterweight bout;  Tyrone Crawley Jr. (3-0) of Philadelphia meeting Korey Sloane (2-6-2) of Philadelphia in a four round welterweight bout;  Arthur Parker (1-8-1, 1 KO) of Lancaster against the debuting Drew Aguillar of Philadelphia in a four round super bantamweight tilt and
Alex Barbosa (4-1-1, 1 KO) of Philly boxing Jose Del Vale (0-1-2) in a four round super bantamweight bout.

Rounding out the card will be the much anticipated pro debut of amateur standout Damon Allen taking on fellow debuting lightweight Joseph Ahaamid of Philadelphia