page_title: Joseph DeGuardia
section_title: Star Boxing Inc.
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph DeGuardia / Biography / Star Boxing Inc.
caption_attribution_description: English: Fight phot
context_page_description: Joseph DeGuardia AKA Joe DeGuardia is an American boxing promoter and lawyer. He is the founder and CEO of Star Boxing, a boxing promotional firm that has been in operation since 1992.DeGuardia has promoted many notable boxing stars throughout his time in the professional boxing industry. Being the son of former professional boxer Joseph DeGuardia Sr., DeGuardia competed in the ring himself and achieved a successful amateur career. Among other titles, DeGuardia won the New York Golden Gloves Championship in 1988 while still attending law school at Hofstra University. In 1991, he took over the community based Morris Park Boxing Club, which his father had founded, and relocated it to a new location.
context_section_description: Joe DeGuardia began promoting boxing in 1992, founding Star Boxing, a boxing promotional company originally based in the Bronx, NY. For the last 27 years, DeGuardia has been professionally active in the boxing industry promoting. Past and present, boxers promoted by Star Boxing include former world champion Antonio Tarver, two time World Champion and 2008 US Olympian Demetrius Andrade, former WBO Jr. Welterweight champion Chris Algieri, former IBF Welterweight champion Joshua Clottey former WBF Heavyweight Champion Carlos Takam and former WBC International Light Heavyweight champ Joe Smith Jr.. In 2016, DeGuardia moved Star Boxing's offices to White Plains, NY.
  Since 2012, Star Boxing has developed a big presence in Long Island, NY. In the town of Huntington, the promotional company has used The Paramount as a home-base with their series of fight shows called Rockin' Fights. Professional fighters that participated in the Rockin' Fights series include Chris Algieri, Cletus Seldin, and Joe Smith Jr.
caption: Johnny Hernandez v Danny Gonzalez, Rockin' Fights 32
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