Michael Coffie vs. Jonathan Rice - July 31, 2021

[Ruthless-RKO]

PBC on FOX

Rising unbeaten heavyweight Michael Coffie will face Jonathan Rice at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday July 31. The pair battles it out in the headliner of PBC boxing fight card live on FOX.

Coffie was originally scheduled to face former title challenger Gerald Washington. The latter was forced to withdraw after testing positive for COVID-19.

Coffie vs Rice broadcast live on FOX begins at 8 pm ET / 7 pm PT. In the scheduled for eight rounds co-feature James Martin battles welterweight prospect and New Jersey-native Vito Mielnicki Jr. Kicking off the telecast unbeaten prospect Joey Spencer takes on Dan Karpency in an eight-rounder at welterweight.



Date: July 31, 2021
Broadcast: FOX | FS1
Start time: 8 pm ET | 5 pm PT | 1 am UK
Venue: Prudential Center - Newark, NJ

Main Card (FOX – 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT / 1 am BST)

12 Round Heavyweight Bout
Michael Coffie vs. Jonathan Rice

8 Round Welterweight Bout
Vito Mielnicki Jr vs. Noah Kidd

8 Round Middleweight Bout
Joey Spencer vs. Dan Karpency

Post-Main Card (FS1 – 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT / 3 am BST)

10 Round Light Heavyweight Bout
Andre Dirrell vs. Christopher Brooker

10 Round Featherweight Bout
Maliek Montgomery vs. Angel Contreras

10 Round Welterweight Bout
Paul Kroll vs. Justin DeLoach

Undercard (Non-televised)

6 Round Heavyweight Bout
Norman Neely vs. Juan Torres

8 Round Super Lightweight Bout
Karl Dargan vs. Ivan Delgado

6 Round Welterweight Bout
Keeshawn Williams vs. Noah Kidd

6 Round Welterweight Bout
Michael Anderson vs. DeMarcus Rogers

4 Round Welterweight Bout
Nicky Vitone vs. Jordan Rosario

6 Round Super welterweight Bout
Quadir Albright vs. Jared Tallen

4 Round Super featherweight Bout
Malik Nelson vs. Alejandro Ramirez

*Date and time are local unless specified otherwise.

**Fight card subject to change.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Meilniki gets new opponent.

Martin was way overweight..

Didn’t other weighing in.

[The Gratest]

Coffie best perk up. Could end up making a meal of this.

[Ruthless-RKO]

James Martin still on the card. Will fight Joey Spencer.

[Lackeos]

Coffie vs Rice. An all-food main event. Nice.

[Boxtune]

Coffie looks around 1.5" shorter than Rice, there is no way he is 6'5" ... Boxrec Tale of Tape for all fighters need to be revised
Both came in very heavy 271.75LBS for Coffie and 268LBS for Rice

[Ruthless-RKO]

Anyone watching this.

We have FOX and then Dirrell on FS1

[oogiebe]

Anyone watching this.

We have FOX and then Dirrell on FS1

Watching the heavies.

[gregregegg]

Boxrec have rice listed as 208lb... i was freaking out thinking he was gunna come in skinny...

[skanksta]

Martin vs Spencer up first...

[Onetimeonly]

Lol, this is on fox? I guess all knows they aren't renewing.

[skanksta]

Who's scoring ?

[oogiebe]

3-0 Rice. Rice came in tonight ready for a fight. Taking it to the big coffie man.

[oogiebe]

4-0 Rice. Coffie isn't able to get anything started. Rice isn't just winning, he's throwing and connecting some hard shots. Seemed to hurt coffie early in round 4.

[oogiebe]

Rice is going to stop him!

[oogiebe]

It's over!!!! Rice stops Coffie in round 5!

[margaret thatcher]

wow!

nice job jonny rice


does this mean dempsey mckean is gawd now

[oogiebe]

wow!

nice job jonny rice


does this mean dempsey mckean is gawd now

LOL! The dude came to fight! He beat him down.

[gregregegg]

just how bad is Darmani Rock....

Great win for ricey boy,

[HeavyHitters]

My heavyweight Michael got thumped tonight. For whatever reason, he didn’t look quite right. He was pawing with his job instead of throwing it strong and consistently. Props to Jonnie Rice, he showed up prepared to go to war. I believe his sparring with Tyson Fury gave him some confidence. Hopefully Michael Coffie can come back and prove himself in the near future, but he looked pretty amateurish tonight. I want to see more of Rice, he put in some hard work like he said in his post fight interview, and it paid off for him. Congratulations Mr. Rice!

[530519]

After Rice lost to Demsey McKean. He totally changed his strategy and fighting style. Even though Rice himself is
a heavy puncher, He learned how to run around and punch from outside and don't engage from early rounds,
against heavy puncher like Efe Ajagba and he Displayed that before Micheal Coffie should have been smart enough
not to pick him as opponent the last moment.

I tell you man, Johnny Rice will be difficult to beat in future, he just found his game.

[Cutman Scabbers]

Boxrec have rice listed as 208lb... i was freaking out thinking he was gunna come in skinny...

Did he really lose 60 pounds?

[Tony1244]

Coffie was decaffinated. Rice was hungry.

Is Rice the next Mike Weaver?

Coffie abandoned a good jab.

[Enlightened-One]

I previously thought that Jonathan Rice was a journeyman with a poor record.

I was right.

I admitted I didn’t know anything about Michael Coffie.

However, I was surprised to see Jonathan Rice score the upset.

Was that because I underestimated Jonathan Rice or whether Michael Coffie was simply the American equivalent of a horrendously protected journeyman like Mark De Mori.

Only time will tell for sure, but I strongly suspect it’s the latter based on Coffie’s lack of experience in the sport of boxing.

[Boxtune]

I previously thought that Jonathan Rice was a journeyman with a poor record.

I was right.

I admitted I didn’t know anything about Michael Coffie.

However, I was surprised to see Jonathan Rice score the upset.

Was that because I underestimated Jonathan Rice or whether Michael Coffie was simply the American equivalent of a horrendously protected journeyman like Mark De Mori.

Only time will tell for sure, but I strongly suspect it’s the latter based on Coffie’s lack of experience in the sport of boxing.

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