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By Paul Ryerson
Gwen Legge’s Eruption Boxing & MMA Management has just made a big splash in women’s boxing with the signing of female boxer Melody Popravak! Popravak is better known by boxing fans and reluctantly by her opponents by her nickname HellFire Mel!
Popravak is the second female boxer to box for The Eruption Boxing & MMA Management stable of boxers, joining rising star Hailey Pennington.
The 5’11” welterweight boasts a 2-2 record with 1 draw as well as possessing an obsession with pugilism! This falls in line with the dedication of manager Gwen Legge! With Pennington & now Popravak aboard, Legge is looking to corner the market on future stars in women’s boxing!
Boxing is a very difficult sport where the road to success can be filled with potholes and setbacks but that won’t stop a determined boxer such as HellFire Mel! Here is what she had to say after a fight that did not go her way. “I stepped up and took a fight with an opponent far more experienced than I, and even though I am mad at myself after watching, I am better off for doing it. Real failure is never leaving the couch in the first place.” Popravak, with an outlook like that will go far in women’s boxing!
Stay tuned for announcements on her upcoming bouts!
For more information on HellFire Mel, Melody Popravak & Hailey Pennington, please visit the Eruption Boxing & MMA Management website.
FIRST THE AMERICAS, THEN THE WORLD:
UNBEATEN ROBERTO CRUZ READY TO
SEIZE HIS CHANCE, LIVE ON DAZN
Puerto Rican prospect promises ‘a great war’ after
Eruption Boxing Management secures WBA shot
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 11, 2025 – Undefeated Roberto Cruz has a simple message ahead of his first title challenge – and debut for Eruption Boxing Management: “Don’t miss this fight!”
The 11-0 (7) Puerto Rican, now based in Killeen, Texas, signed with Eruption Boxing Management in February, and his new Manager, Gwen Legge, immediately set about securing the 27-year-old a title shot.
Cruz, who goes by the ring monicker “El Terror de Cayey”, will fight his fellow unbeaten contender, Andreas Katzourakis of Greece, for the WBA Continental Americas super-welterweight championship on May 9,live on DAZN, at the Red Owl Boxing Arena in Houston, Texas.
It is a chance for Eruption’s hot new signing to showcase his potential in front of a worldwide audience.
“I see the fight like a good opportunity to be crowned champion, and to earn a world ranking in this division,” says Cruz.
“It will let everybody know what I am made of. It is going to be a great fight where the fans are going to enjoy a great war, no doubt.”
“A great war” would be an apt description of Katzourakis’ last fight, when he won the OTX tournament with a thrilling 10-round decision over former world title challenger Brandon Adams in November 2024.
The 15-0 (10) Athens man earned a lot of admirers that night – and for Cruz, that means a chance to win new fans of his own.
“I am very excited to be in the main event in a big platform like DAZN,” he says. “It is a great opportunity that I’m very thankful for.”
An opportunity delivered by Eruption Boxing Management, one of the sport’s fast-rising forces.
“I needed a management company like Eruption to guide my career to the next level,” says Cruz. “My team knew that they were the one, so we signed without any hesitation.”
Legge is just as enthused by her new charge. “Roberto Cruz has shown extraordinary talent, dedication and spirit,” she says. “He is diligent in training, he stays focused and composed and is a great striker.
“Eruption Boxing Management fully expects him to win the WBA Continental Americas championship in the DAZN main event on May 9 and from there go on to win a world title.”
Naturally, Cruz himself has a world title as the ultimate goal. It’s something he’s worked towards since he first put on a pair of boxing gloves as a 10-year-old in the mountain town of Cayey, following in the footsteps of several relatives on his mother’s side who were boxers, and an uncle who is a trainer.
As a young amateur, Cruz won the Junior National tournament and represented Puerto Rico internationally.
He turned pro in 2016, winning first six bouts in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, before a move to the US in 2020 kicked his career up a gear.
Alighting in Killeen when his military wife was stationed in Fort Cavazos, Cruz immediately gravitated towards JR Boxing Club in the town, where he fell under the watch of esteemed coach Jesse Ravelo, who has coached numerous world champions and in the 1996 and 2012 Olympic Games.
Cruz, who names fellow Puerto Ricans Felix Trinidad, Wilfredo Benitez and Miguel Cotto among his idols, firmly believes he can follow in their footsteps and become another world champion from his island nation – and from Ravelo’s gym.
But first things first: “My ultimate goal as a professional boxer is to become world champion,” he says. “But my present goal is to focus on May 9 and win this WBA Continental Americas title, by God’s grace.”
To do so, Cruz will have to overcome the so-called experts who have him pegged as an underdog, as well as enter Katzsourakis’ adopted hometown of Houston.
“I am ready and can’t wait to get in the ring,” he says. “I’ll be at his house, but am going to make it mine. Don’t miss this fight!”
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* Roberto Cruz vs Andreas Katzsourakis will take place on the OTX 13 event at The Red Owl Boxing Arena in Houston, Texas, on May 9, 2025.
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* 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 contact’s 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 Roberto Cruz or Eruption Boxing Management are welcomed via questions@eruptionboxing.com
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