Introducing Unbeaten Young Star And Future Champion Hailey Pennington 03/04/2025
INTRODUCING UNBEATEN YOUNG STAR AND FUTURE CHAMPION HAILEY PENNINGTON
Latest signing a particularly special one for Eruption Boxing owner Gwen Legge
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Latest signing a particularly special one for Eruption Boxing owner Gwen Legge
March 3, 2025 – Rising super-featherweight starlet Hailey Pennington may have found her perfect promotional home after inking a deal with Eruption Boxing Management.
Pennington is already being tipped by many as a future champion, and her new manager, Eruption Boxing owner Gwen Legge, is especially pleased with her new signing.
Having teamed with her idol, the fabled ‘First Lady of Boxing’, Jackie Kallen, in setting up Eruption, Legge now says: “I like to call myself ‘the next lady of boxing’ – Hailey is the first girl I’ve signed, so she’s pretty special to me.”
Pennington joins Legge’s growing stable which includes the likes of 11-0 Roberto Cruz, Chinese contender Peng Qu, former ABF super-flyweight champion Guillermo Gutierrez and undefeated novice pros Efrain Sanchez, Paul Anthony and Jayon Tinnin, among others. But the 25-year-old from Huntington, West Viriginia, might be Legge’s brightest hope yet.
“She’s tough, strong and beautiful,” says Legge of her charge. “She has shown extraordinary talent, dedication and spirit, and she’s going to be world champion.”
It’s a sentiment which echoes that of Pennington’s father, back when she was a child.
“I started training when I was 18 years old,” she says, which if anything was belated, considering her father ran a gym all through her childhood and repeatedly told her: “If you start now, you’ll be a world champion.”
But despite his enthusiasm, she wasn’t initially convinced.
It was after fighting off bullies in school that she realized the value of what her father had taught her, and decided to give boxing a proper push.
She climbed as high as No.2 in the USA Boxing ranks as an amateur and then started thinking about the pros. Two wins in 2024 – both first-round knockouts – kicked off her paid career in perfect style and brought her to the attention of Eruption Boxing.
Next up will be Pennington’s debut for her new management team, and third professional contest, when she meets Yoryina Meyers on May 3 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Meyers herself is undefeated at 3-0, so is a potential banana skin to Pennington’s ambitions, but Hailey remains confident in her prospects both now and in the future.
“My short-term goals are to just get my career running. For long-term, I want to take over the 126lbs division,” she says.
That, and to help the next generation of boxers come through her own facility, The Pit Boxing, which opened last year in her Huntington hometown.
“The most rewarding part of being a professional boxer is being a role model for the younger girls below me,” she says.
And, as a role model, Pennington is seen to work hard. “Boxing is not a job, it’s just my life,” she says.
“I imagine the body as a machine and I want to see how far I can push.”
Can she push as far as a world title?
By joining Eruption – and with it receiving the support of two of the sport’s most passionate women, the ‘First’ and the ‘Next’ ladies of boxing – Pennington is well placed to chase her dreams, and those of the many who believe in her.
* Hailey Pennington v Yoryina Meyers will take place on the ‘Punches Flow For Cinco De Mayo’ event at The Complex in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 3, 2025.
* More information: www.thecomplexlincoln.com
* Tickets: www.nitrotickets.com
* Eruption Boxing Management aims to take boxers and mixed martial artists to the top and offers the perfect combination of experience and enthusiasm, backed up by an enormous contacts book that reaches across the world. Interested athletes can find out more at www.eruptionboxing.com, email questions@eruptionboxing.com or call +1 949-329-2661
* Press enquiries about Hailey Pennington or Eruption Boxing Management are welcomed via info@eruptionboxing.com
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