WFC57 World Fighting Championships put on an exciting show for a packed house at The Meadows Casino in Washington PA located near Pittsburgh. This was a well run promotion with tough matched fights featuring some top young talent from Pennsylvania and Ohio.
In a somewhat lackluster Main Event Salka UD Justin Savi (8 rounds, Lightweights)80-70 x3. Salka’s original opponent southpaw (15-5) Wilberth Lopez was pulled from the card. In came (28-6) Justin Savi. Savi seemed … Read Article
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA — August 27, 2016 — World Fighting Championships delivered yet another night of exciting, well-matched bouts in front of a sold-out crowd at The Meadows Racetrack & Casino, culminating in a unanimous decision win for “Lightening” Rod Salka, who faced a very game Justin Savi in an 8 round bout at lightweight. In what was widely considered fight of the night, Amonte Eberhardt knocked out Curtis Morton in the 6th round of their … Read Article
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – August 26, 2016 – “Lightening” Rod Salka goes into today’s WFC 57 weigh-in preparing for a new foe in Justin Savi (28-6-2, 18KO) at the Meadows Racetrack and Casino tomorrow evening. His original opponent for the eight round, main event bout was Wilberth Lopez, who is unable to compete due to a medical issue.
Savi is no stranger to coming in at the 11th hour, and did so to face Jhonny Gonzalez … Read Article
World Fighting Championships returns to Meadows Racetrack & Casino on Saturday, August 27, with a nine-bout card headlined by “Lightning” Rod Salka (22-4, 4KO) in a eight-round banger versus Arizona’s Wilberth Lopez (15-5, 10KO).
Rod Salka is a busy man. Having fought only three times since his most notable fight versus Danny Garcia in 2014, he has kept busy outside of the ring. “I sat around and waited for a call after the Garcia fight, … Read Article
Pittsburgh, PA (November 13, 2014) In addition to telecasting the highly anticipated world class professional event, “The Pride of Pittsburgh II” Friday night on BeIn Sport and a host of other regional sports outlets, Iron Mike Productions announced this evening that the event will be webcast at www.IronMikeProductions.com starting at 9:00 p.m. E.T. FREE of charge.
“We’ve got most of the country blanketed with the Comcast Sports Networks, BeIN Sport and ROOT Sports but we … Read Article
Pittsburgh, PA (November 13, 2014) In front of a massive crowd of local media and fans, Boxing Legend and head of Iron Mike Productions, MIKE TYSON held court at the Final Press Conference for “The Pride of Pittsburgh II” set for Friday night, November 14 at CONSOL Energy Center.
In great spirits Tyson jokingly asked each fighter to stop thanking him during their time at the podium, “Get the knockout, trust me I’ll come over … Read Article
Amidst a town engulfed with boxing fever over the best local fight card in decades, Iron Mike Productions has announced a stacked undercard for this Friday night’s, “The Pride of Pittsburgh II” event at CONSOL Energy Center. … Read Article
“I was in the ‘Fight of the Year’ in August, he was in ‘America’s Funniest Videos.” said lightweight contender MONTY MEZA CLAY when speaking about his upcoming 10-round clash with Pittsburgh cross-town rival, “Lightning” ROD SALKA.
“We’ve known each other for ever and frankly we just don’t like each other, not outside the ring and certainly not inside.”… Read Article
(Photo Credit: Amanda Kwok / SHOWTIME) In a Showtime card filled with sickening mismatches in the televised portion of the card, the much bigger, stronger and more talented IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) showed how it’s done in crushing the little unranked 2nd tier lightweight that his adviser Al Haymon scheduled for him to fight in Rod Salka (19-4, 3 KOs) in the 2nd round tonight at the Barclays Center in … Read Article
(Photo Credit: Amanda Kwok / SHOWTIME) WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (28-0, 16 KOs) will be meeting Rod Salka (19-3, 3 KOs) tonight on Showtime from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
While Garcia has received a lot of negative comments by fans for fighting a lightweight in Salka instead of a highly ranked light welterweight, Stephen Espinoza of Showtime Sports, vouches for Salka that he’s going to make it an entertaining fight … Read Article
