Titles at Towac: Toby Wright defending Australian title in front of a home crowd

Local fighter Toby Wright and Emmanuel Rodriguez will each be contesting titles this Saturday night as boxing returns to Towac Park.

Hosted by Mobsport Boxing Gym under 99 Promotion, Saturday night’s 15-bout fight card at Towac will see Mobsport’s Toby Wright defend his Australian Global 78kg Title against Mercy Tameifuna of UTC St Marys.

The night will also see Mobsport’s Emmanuel Rodriguez take on Griffith City Boxing’s Tai Mita for the vacant Western District's 81kg title.

“Toby won the title last year at Nyngan, he defeated a really good boy named, Clayton Chatfield.. it was a good hard fight,” said Mobsport founder and head coach Jake Kenney who’s predicting another great match on Saturday night.

“Toby's had 11 fights with nine wins and two losses, seven stoppages and those two losses were split decision losses, they could have gone either way,” he said.

For Toby, this will be his final fight in the amateur ranks. He achieved his dream of an Australian title last year, but has long wanted to step out onto the canvas in his hometown.

“So Tobes was a sparing partner for Sam Ah-See and he said he can remember going to the Sam fight nights and that the crowd's going off,” Jake said.

“Toby said to me, before I have my last amateur I have it at home, Coach! So I just went and saw a few guys and we’ve got this together.”

The two title fights will be four two-minute rounds, with the rest of the card fighting three two-minute rounds, Jake said.

Mobsport Gym has seven fighters competing on Saturday on a card featuring mostly locals.

“Emmanuel Rodriguez, he's been with me for the last three-and-a-half years. This will be Emman's, first first crack at Western District's title. He's quite excited and it should be a really good fight,” Jake said.

“There's a master's boxer, Leslie Venner, he goes under the pseudonym ‘Bam Bam’ and he's well known locally around Orange and he'll be fighting there. 

“And then we've got young Oscar Cheney, he's a really good young kid trying to break through into the junior ranks and other young guys that have just come through like Darnel Thompson. 

“Dave Littlefield, from Littlefield's Boxing, is supporting us as well, United Boxing have got two nominations in… It will be a great night and there are some really high-level quality fighters in there.”

Titles at Towac takes place on Saturday, May 11 from 6.30pm. General admission tickets are $50 and available from www.123tix.com.au