LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (August 4, 2011)—World Ranked Cruiserweight, BJ Flores wants to make a statement and he has pinpointed the man that will not only make a fan friendly fight with, but be a fight of importance.
Fresh off his 5th round TKO victory of highly rated Nick Iannuzz on July 23rd, Flores wants world rated and undefeated cruiserweight Lateef Kayode next. Flores has a date in Springfield, Missouri in October and is more than willing to bring in the highly rated rugged Nigerian as his next opponent.
Flores is 25-1 with sixteen knockouts.
Kayode, 17-0 with fourteen knockouts is ranked Number one by the WBA; Number three by the WBO; number four the WBC; and Number five by the IBF.
“I wanted Kaydoe after the fight he had with Iannuzzi. For whatever reason, they went in another direction. Now I have another date in Springfield, Missouri at the end of October and Lateef is on the top of my list! I contacted his promoter today and still waiting for a response. I want to clear up any confusion about who the top US cruiserweight contender is. This is a new phase in my career”, said Flores
“We had a wonderful turnout at the O’Rielly Center and had over 2100 people at the event! The guys at the O’Rielly are very excited to do another show as are we! I will be fighting here every 3 months until I get a shot at a title! If Lateef Kayode will take the fight then he will be the next victim. If not that, I will fight another highly rated US contender.”
“Kayode is rated higher than me and I’m willing to prove in the ring that I can beat him. It’s nothing personal but he has something I want and that’s a number-one ranking by the WBA and top five rating by all three other sanctioning bodies. He stands in my way of returning to a title fight and I want to set the record straight that I will fight any cruiserweight that is in my way of a title shot”!
VIDEO LINK TO HIGHLIGHTS OF FLORES KO OVER IANNUZZI
State Hopes Idaho Golf Trail Will Blaze a New Era of Tourism.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 1, 2004 By Becky Kramer, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 1–COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho — Here’s a statistic that makes Carl Wilgus wince: Idaho is one of only two states that have never hosted a U.S. Golf Association national championship.
In fact, people seldom associate golf with the Gem State, said Wilgus, the state’s tourism director. The quintessential images of Idaho recreation are skiing and hunting, whitewater rafting and fishing. Which is good but limiting, considering the quality of the state’s greens and fairways, he said.
Wilgus hopes the new Idaho Golf Trail will raise the image of golf in Idaho.
The trail features six courses across the state, from the Hidden Lakes Resort course near Sandpoint to Sun Valley. A travel package to play all six costs $972, and includes six nights of lodging and a rental car to drive the 500 miles.
The idea for a golf trail came from Oregon and other less-known golf states. Packaging assets helps attract golfers, and golfers are good tourists, Wilgus said.
“If you look at the demographics and expenditure patterns of people who golf, they are high quality visitors that we’d like to see more of,” he said. site coeur d alene resort
Like skiers, golfers tend to be better educated and more affluent than the general population. They have the resources to travel, and money to spend on lodging, dining and shopping. web site coeur d alene resort
The Idaho Department of Commerce will spend about $20,000 promoting the Idaho Golf Trail this year. The initial goals are modest. “We don’t expect more than a couple hundred reservations this year,” Wilgus said.
But over time, the awareness will build, he said. “We want people to think, ‘Oh, I’m going to Idaho. I’d better throw the clubs in.'” Last fall, the state invited six golf writers to play the courses, including one from France. “They had a wonderful time, and we’ve received a tremendous amount of press out of it,” said Erin Maher, Hidden Lakes’ business and marketing director.
In North Idaho, the trail also includes the Coeur d’Alene Resort Course, and the Circling Raven Golf Course at the Coeur d’Alene Casino in Worley. The three southern Idaho courses are BanBury in Eagle, the Sun Valley Resort Course and the Whitetail Club in McCall.
“I think the fun thing about this is that there are six very distinct courses,” Maher said.
The Hidden Lakes course has eight resident moose and rugged terrain. “It’s a hard-core golfers’ course,” she said. “Our hazards are natural. It’s difficult and raw.
“You can go to the Coeur d’Alene Resort and have an entirely different experience,” Maher said. “It’s very service oriented. The caddies give instruction on how to play each hole.” At the Circling Raven course on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, boardwalks direct golfers around sensitive natural areas.
Golf courses tend to benefit from clustering, said Bob Bostwick, press secretary for the Coeur d’Alene Casino.
“The fact that the Circling Raven course is here is very good for the Coeur d’Alene Resort course, and vice versa,” he said. “It gives people a reason to stay in the area, and play another round of golf.” North Idaho’s golf reputation is growing, said Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce director Jonathan Coe. Last year, Golf Magazine named Circling Raven as one of 10 top new public golf courses in the country. The private Club at Black Rock won honors from Golf Magazine.
Idaho’s golf reputation will also get a shot of prestige in 2005, when the U.S. Golf Association finally hosts its first event in Idaho, Wilgus said. Girls ages 12 to 18 will tee off at BanBury for the U.S. Junior Girls’ national championship.
Wilgus expects good publicity from the championship. Better yet, it will pull Idaho out of its ranking with North Dakota as the only states that haven’t hosted a national championship.
