Baltimore Boxing presents “Bully Beatdown” October 20!
VINNY PAZ TO ATTEND AS SPECIAL GUEST!
Baltimore, MD (October 4, 2012) – Jake Smith’s Baltimore Boxing Promotions returns to the Du Burns Arena Saturday, October 20 for the first ever “Bully Beatdown” fight card.
In association with Jack Crowe’s Rew Materials of Baltimore, Diamond Detail and Northwest Honda/BMW, Baltimore Boxing Promotions’ “Bully Beatdown” will be an entertaining evening featuring ten Olympic-style bouts along with educational information about anti-bullying.
“This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time,” said Smith, a Maryland and DC Boxing Hall of Famer who teamed up with various causes in the past. “Bullying nationwide is at an all-time high and must be stopped immediately. If we all pitch in and promote anti-bullying, lives literally will be saved.”
Advanced general admission tickets for $20, floor seating at $30 and VIP seats for $50 are available by calling 410-375-9175 or logging onto BaltimoreBoxing.com. All VIP ticketholders can enjoy free hors d’oeuvres and half priced drinks from 7-8 pm.
VIP ticketholders also have exclusive access to meet and greet five-time world champion and boxing great Vinny Paz, the event’s special guest attendee. Paz, who participated in some of the most exciting fights in boxing history, defeated the likes of Hall of Famer Roberto Duran (twice), Lloyd Honeyghan, Gilbert Dele, Greg Haugen and Dana Rosenblatt among others.
Headlining the card is an East Coast Middleweight Championship bout between titlist Jerome Featherstone of Baltimore and upset-minded Keith Samuels. A former standout in both wrestling and football that fights out of the Baltimore Boxing and Fitness Gym, Featherstone is undefeated in the squared circle and continues to improve each time out. A tough and experienced fighter, Samuels comes from the talent-rich Washington, DC area.
The Featherstone-Samuels match is scheduled for three rounds.
In supporting bouts, junior welterweight Alex Livichuzhca meets Jose Cabb in a battle of Baltimoreans, while former Penn State Boxing captain AJ Williams meets Bobby Sha of York, PA in a middleweight matchup. Former Detroit Tigers prospect Ryan Roberson of Silver Spring, MD will swap his baseball bat for a pair of gloves when he faces Mike Lloyd in a heavyweight contest. Local favorites Kerry Brewster, Ira Seidel and Keyan Coleman are also slated to appear in separate bouts.
Doors for “Bully Beatdown” open at 6:30 pm and the first bout is scheduled for 8:15.
For more information, go to Baltimoreboxing.com.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
