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Lacey Township High School Senior Turns Pro In Boxing
Nicholas "Quick Nick" Valliere is a five-time amateur state boxing champion

They don’t call him “Quick Nick” for nothing.
Nicholas Vallieri is in his senior year at Lacey Township High School. But he also spends between three to four hours a day, six days a week training at the Gladiator Gym in Forked River, to pursue his dream of being a successful professional boxer.
So far, the southpaw’s hard work has paid off.
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Vallieri made his professional debut in the junior middleweight class on July 12, when he posted a fourth-round TKO against Jamil Gadseden at the Riverwinds Community Center in West Deptford.
He returned to competition on Aug. 23 at Bally’s Grand Ballroom, up against Greg Thomas of Philadelphia. He closed the show in the second of four rounds with another TKO, according to a proclamation Mayor Gary Quinn presented to him at the Sept. 11 Township Committee meeting.
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“Don’t forget us little guys in Lacey when you’re on national T.V.,” Quinn told Vallieri as they posed for pictures.
Vallieri attends school through the high school’s Student Cooperative Work Program.
Photo credit: Lacey Township
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