Former IBF lightweight champion Richard “RC” Commey (30-5-1, 27 KOs) returns to the ring after a two-year absence on Sunday, February 23rd on a show presented by World Kid Promotions at Kings Theater in Brooklyn, New York. The action will be streamed live on www.bxngtv.com. Commey joins another former champion, Brooklyn junior middleweight Sadam “World Kid” Ali (27-3, 14 KOs), who returns to the ring after a 5 ½ years absence from the ring in the eight-round main event against Victoriano Antonio Santillan (13-7-2, 8 KOs) of Argentina. The former champions' friendship is critical in terms of Commey’s return and they’re doing it together. “I have a great relationship with Sadam,” Commey explained. “I was training in his gym when I wasn’t world champ and I’m still training there. I stayed in camp with him when he became world champion. We are very good friends – like family – especially when we talk about boxing.”

A Ghana native, Commey fights out of The Bronx and faces an opponent to be finalized in an eight-round welterweight bout. The 37 year-old Commey captured the vacant IBF crown on February 2, 2019, when he stopped Isa Chaniev (13-1) in the second round. Three-and-one-half months later, Commey successfully defended his title with an eighth-round stoppage of Raymundo Beltran (36-8-1). Commey was idle for the last two years because of life and managerial issues that are now resolved. He’s returning to the ring, not for a one-and-done fight, but for a final career run.

“I had to clear my mind,” Commey talked about his situation that kept him out of the ring. “This is the first of many fights to follow, but I still have to look at my performance that will tell me about upcoming fights.”

Also on the show, YouTube infuiencer junior welterweight Adam Saleh (1-0-1, 0 KOs) of East Meadow, New York, who is supported by his nearly 5-million subscribers, is booked for a four-round match against TBA.

Other fighters on the undercard include Brooklyn bantamweight Khalid Twaiti (14-0, 5 KOs), runner-up in the 2015 USA National Championships, is coming off his first ten-round fight last October, in which he won by way of a dominant unanimous decision (99-91, 99-91, 98-91) over Emmanuel Rodriguez (15-1) in Newark, New Jersey... Brooklyn junior lightweight “Speedy” Chiara Dituri (9-2, 3 KOs) in a six-round match, as well as pro-debuting New York City junior middleweight Jahanze Riswan and pro-debuting light heavyweight Mike Boyle, who is a Yonkers (NY) firefighter, in a pair of four-rounders.

A former WBO junior middleweight champ and a 2008 U.S. Olympian, Ali’s company, World Kid, is promoting this event, its first since 2012, which was also held in Brooklyn.  Ali captured his title in 2017, upsetting Miguel Cotto (41-5) at the famed Madison Square Garden.