New Promoters at Country Club Jump the Gun With First Card : Boxing: State officials say details must be finalized before they give go-ahead to June 16 fights in Reseda.

Iguana Boxing Promoters, the new partnership promoting boxing at Tony Longval’s Country Club in Reseda, is so pumped up about its plans that its announcement of a June 16 card on Thursday was premature, according to Rob Lynch, the assistant chief inspector of the California Athletic Commission.

IBP needs to supply the commission with a surety bond and proof of medical insurance, Lynch said. The bond covers payment to the commission and the fighters in case IBP’s checks bounce.

The promoter of record, Mitchell Winik, has sent in the other necessary papers--a formal application, resumes, photographs and fingerprints.

Lynch said he told Winik and his partner Peter Broudy not to announce the card until the commission received all payment and paperwork.

“I’ll have to have a little chat with them,” Lynch said.

Winik and Broudy said that proof of the surety bond and the medical insurance have been faxed to the CAC.

If that is the case, the first card will be held June 16. Beginning in July, IBP plans to promote two cards per month, featuring six or seven fights per card.

The cheap seats, previously $20, will be reduced to $12. They comprise 25% of the 930 seats at the club. The rest of the seats will sell for $60, $50, $40 and $30 as they have in the past.

“By lowering the prices I feel fans will come out not only once a month, but twice a month,” Broudy said. “It only holds 950 people. It’s crazy not to have this place packed.”

Super flyweight Cecilio (El Torito) Espino (24-3) will headline the June 16 card with a 10-round bout. An opponent has not yet signed to fight the 116-pounder.

Junior middleweight P.J. Goossen (7-0) and his brother, lightweight Chuck Goossen (2-1), are also on the initial card. They are the sons of Patrick Goossen, a former member of Ten Goose Boxing which promoted bouts at the club the past 10 years.

Middleweight Ray (Baby Animal) Villanueva, featherweight Gonzalo Ramirez, and welterweight Richard Benjamin are also slated for the first card. It will be Benjamin’s first fight since he broke his hand Feb. 11.

IBP is filling the void vacated by Ten Goose, which announced last month that it will cut back to roughly four cards a year because its fighters, including Rafael Ruelas, the WBC’s No. 1 lightweight contender, have outgrown the venue.

Broudy and Winik signed a one-year, exclusive promotional contract with Longval. Ten Goose president Dan Goossen will promote a few cards until August, however, because of an agreement made with Longval before IBP entered the picture.

Broudy claimed that attendance fell to an average of 430 fans per card the past six months. The CAC could not provide attendance figures; Dan Goossen said that attendance was not a problem.

Unlike Dan Goossen, Broudy does not manage boxers.

“Being as I don’t have a stake in the fighters, I make for competitive fights,” he said. “As long as it is evenly matched, the people will come back.”

Broudy also plans to boost ticket sales by requiring fighters, other than headliners, to literally sell 50 to 100 tickets each per card.

Among the fresh faces Broudy plans to bring in for bouts are former world champion Rene Arredondo who is coming out of retirement, and Lamar Murphy, a lightweight who is 10-0 with eight knockouts.

Longval has extensive plans for the area around his club. In the next three weeks he is opening a training gym which will feature two boxing rings.

His long-term plans call for an outdoor, world title bout in the spacious parking lot behind the club.