Haverhill’s Tejada ‘Fighter of the Year’
Boston Pro Boxing announced its award winners for 2024, and of course, it featured a local flair.
Haverhill’s Nicky Tejada, who posted four wins in the calendar year including a pair of main events for the promotion, was named Fighter of the Year.
Tejada, who fights out of the Ray Hebert’s Haverhill Downtown Boxing Club, improved to 10-0-1 as a pro.
Speaking of the HDBC, another fighter out of there, Austin Keller, was part of Boston Pro Boxing’s Fight of the Year, a four-round slugfest with Jordan Yantin.
By the way, Boston Pro Boxing’s next live event, “Superbrawl,” is set for Jan. 24 at Memorial Hall in Melrose.
For more information on the card or to pick up tickets, head to bostonboxingpromotions.com.
Jack Edwards in Methuen
Former Boston Bruins NESN play-by-play announcer Jack Edwards will be signing autographs this Sunday, Jan. 5 at the VFW Hall in Methuen.
The long-time announcer will be at the monthly Sports Card Show event at 26 River Street signing from 10 a.m. until noon. The autographs cost $15 with inscriptions and photo ops each costing $5. Mail-ins cost $15.
The card show runs from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. with over 40 dealer tables of sports memorabilia.
For more info call Vic at 508-265-4440 or send email to vabdreoli@comcast.net.
What should Pats do?
At last look, the “get-in” price for the New England Patriots’ season finale is down to $27 on the secondary market, a factor that should shake ownership to the core.
Who wants to pay to watch Mitch Trubisky and a bunch of nameless, faceless Buffalo Bills challenge a Patriots team that may or may not be trying to lose.
In a 3-13 season full of bungled decisions by ownership, management from the moment Bill Belichick walked out the door, New England faces a final “no-win” situation on Sunday.
Beat the Bills, and it likely will cost the Patriots the No. 1 spot in April’s draft.
Lose to Mitchy the Kid and Co. and you just lost to a team that is barely trying.
Either way, New England loses. But this is what happens when incompetence permeates a franchise.
And finally …
You likely won’t hear a peep about this in the suddenly blunted Boston media, but the Los Angeles Dodgers re-signed slugger TeOscar Hernandez on Friday.
The power-hitting righty outfielder was there for the taking. He blasted 33 homers and drove in 99 runs a year ago, and he was available to everyone.
The Red Sox have one giant need in the lineup – a righty slugger. Ownership and general manager Craig Breslow promised the Sox would be proactive this offseason.
Hernandez, who has shown plenty of interest in Boston and loves hitting at Fenway, accepted an affordable three-year, $66 million deal to stay in LA.