Glen Burnie, MD (March 18, 2013) – Jake the Snake Promotions will have a total of 13 bouts as part of a stacked Olympic-style boxing card Friday, March 22 at the elegant Michaels Eighth Avenue Ballroom in Glen Burnie, MD.
The card features boxers from Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina and four fighters that are traveling all the way from Ireland.
General admission tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Individual VIP tickets are $50 and $500 for a table of ten. All VIP ticketholders can enjoy gets hors d’oeurves from 7-8. Tickets are available by calling 410-375-9175. Doors open at 6:30 pm and the first fight is 8:15.
Headlining the card is a bout featuring popular heavyweight Sam Crose of the Baltimore Boxing Club and Tom Busch of Team Maryland. Both fighters are known locally and Crose trains under the watchful eye of Jake “The Snake” Smith.
In the co-feature, Courtney Feldheim of Maryland meets Katie Poplawski, a student at Georgetown University, of Washington D.C. in a 141 pound bout. Feldheim, who is also a fitness instructor at the Merritt Athletic Club, most recently fought January 19 in Salisbury, MD.
Fans will also have the opportunity to watch special attraction bouts featuring Team North Carolina’s Brandon Knox and Washington D.C. middleweight Adan Gonzalez in separate bouts. The 2012 NCBA tournament Silver Medalist, Knox is considered the best fighter traveling from the Carolinas for this first ever event. Gonzalez, a Georgetown University student who won multiple amateur tournaments, has been featured in various media outlets for his success in boxing and involvement in charitable causes.
“I hate to sound like a broken record but I really love the structure of this event,” said Promoter Jake Smith of Jake the Snake Promotions. “There are a lot of fighters out there and only a few of the tournaments feature boxers from different areas. I’m hoping to run future events like this and believe the fans will have a great time.”
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.
