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22          DECEMBER 2016 Issue #49                                                         www.sportsenergynews.com



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         Cornwall Mazda  presents...                                                Tony Luis Victorious in






                            Chaz Carello - Grade 7                                  Mississauga


                             Rothwell-Osnabruck High School


                           Participating Sports: Basketball, curling, Soccer,
                             Football, Baseball
                              Favourite Sport: Soccer
                              Favourite Subject: Math
                              I look up to this sports personality:
                              David Beckham
                              Sport achievements:
                            Soccer MVP 2014-2015 & 2015-2016



                  Brock’s





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                                                                                    By Jim Riddell                        and am looking forward to resuming
                                                                                                                          the  comeback  in  the  New  Year.    I
                                                                                         n November 19th at the Hershey   signed  with  a  new  California  based
          By Brock McBride                                                          OCentre  in  Mississauga  Tony        company, Liveco Entertainment Inc.
                                                                                    Luis returned to the ring for the first   They’ve made me a great offer and
                ovember started with us packing up our apartment.  My coach         time in nine months, pounding out a   have outlined a good vision plan for
          Nand I hadn’t been seeing eye-to-eye for awhile and it came to a          unanimous  decision  over  Christian   me to get back to the top.”
          point where I spoke to management and asked for my release.  It isn’t     Urezquieta of Mexico.  Urezquieta is
          like North American Pro Hockey where you can get traded.  Once you        a tough determined fighter who had      This  fight  was  Tony’s  first  ever
                                                                                    won his previous ten fights and had  in  Ontario  in  his  twenty-five
          are released from a team you are free to go wherever you want.  After
                                                                                    not lost in over six years.  Tony won  professional  bouts.    It’s  also  the
          a few days in limbo my agent called and said that another team in the
                                                                                    six of the eight rounds on two of the  first  time  he  has  fought  in  Canada
          league was interested.  After some negotiations I signed a two year
                                                                                    judges’ scorecards and was given five  since  defeating  Maurycy  Gojko  in
          contract with Dornbirn Bulldogs.  It was nice to be able to get a two     rounds by the third judge.            Gatineau QC, back in May of 2013.
          year deal to provide some stability for our family.  After 4 years in                                           Since  then  Tony  has  been  fighting
                                                                                      “I  know  I’ve  been  sharper”  Tony
          Villach my wife Melissa, Maely, and I jumped on the train and were                                              on the road, winning impressively in
                                                                                    said, “But I had nine months of rust
          excited for a new experience.  Dornbirn is a small city on the Swiss                                            places  like  Iowa,  Connecticut,  and
                                                                                    to shake off and the last few months
          Austrian border and is an area of Europe we have yet to visit.            of  stress  dealing  with  my  former   several  locations  across  New  York
                                                                                                                          State.  He also had a very close and
            We  settled  in  quickly  and  the  players  and  team  staff  were  very   promoter really took a toll on me.  And   controversial loss to Derry Matthews
                                                                                    I had a tough opponent in front of me.
          welcoming.  Melissa’s parents were able to come visit in the first week                                         for  the  World  Title  in  Matthews’s
                                                                                    He was on a ten fight winning streak
          that we arrived so I drove to Zurich to pick them up at the airport.                                            hometown  of  Liverpool,  England.
                                                                                    and was very determined to make it
          They toured a few cities in Switzerland while I was on a road trip with                                         Area  fight  fans  may  get  the  chance
                                                                                    eleven.  I was more determined.  It
          the team.  If you ever visit Switzerland make sure to be prepared to      didn’t look pretty but I wasn’t going   to see some future Tony Luis  fights
          spend some money.  Everything is expensive.  A meal at MacDonald’s        to be denied.  I had hurt my back in   in Canada, as the  possibility of some
          for 3 people cost them 58 Swiss Francs.  That’s about 75 Canadian         training  and  it  got  triggered  during   “closer  to  home”  fights  are  being
                                                                                                                          discussed.    If  the  bus  loads  of  fans
          Dollars.  Maybe they make their hamburgers with filet mignon ...I         the fight, but I’m a pro and I made the   that  travelled  to  Montreal  for  some
          don’t know?                                                               adjustments.”                         of  Tony’s  early  pro  fights  are  any

            I want to open up a Swiss bank account ...just to say I have a Swiss      When asked about the future, Tony  indication, a properly promoted Tony
                                                                                    replied  “I  am  going  to  rest  for  the  Luis  fight  could  fill  the  Ed  Lumley
          Bank Account...like you hear about in the movies!
                                                                                    next  week  or  two  to  heal  the  back  arena.
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