The boxing card for the 2007 Fight Night "Fight for Children" on Thursday, November 8 at the Washington Hilton and Towers Hotel is complete and for the first time in three years, there will be Beltway Boxers on the card!
The eight-round main event features Smithsburgh, MD lightweight Dean "Pitbull" White as he takes on Leo Martinez of Columbus, OH. White (14-8-1, seven KO's) will be trying to break a three-bout losing streak that includes an eight-round unanimous decision loss to Jamie Palma on September 15 at the ABC Sports Complex in Springfield, VA. Martinez (11-9, five KO's) is riding a three-fight winning streak which includes a six-round majority decision win over Jorge Lara on September 14 in Chicago, IL. One of Martinez's biggest victories was a six-round split decision over future world champion Eric Aiken in October of 2005.
The co-feature bout will be the traditional "Fight for Children" Title bout and that contest will be an interesting Battle of the Beltway. Undefeated Arlington, VA junior welterweight Bayan Jargal will match up against DC's Reggie "The Mechanic" Holly in a six-round contest.
Jargal (3-0-1, two KO's) is coming off a four-round unanimous decision win over Edward Anderson on October 6 at the Hilton McLean Tyson's Corner in McLean VA. This will be Jargal's first scheduled six-round contest. Holly (7-2, two KO's) won a six-round unanimous decision over Ken Humphreys in his last outing on June 23 at Howard University's Burr Gymnasium.
In other bouts on the card, undefeated Venezuelan heavyweight Wilmer Vasquez (3-0, two KO's) will take on Corey Winfield of Winston-Salem, North Carolina in a four-round bout. Also, Lancaster, PA super middleweight Nazyir Bell will make his pro debut in a scheduled six-round contest against Atlanta, GA's Breon Smiley (1-1, one KO).
The matchmaker for the card also has Beltway ties. His name is Eric Bottjer and he cut his boxing teeth as a promoter, matchmaker and writer throughout the area in the late 80's-early 90's. In the days before the internet, Bottjer created newsletters that covered the Beltway Boxing scene in much the same way as this blog. Bottjer moved on to work as matchmaker for many top-flight promoters including Don King and Cedric Kushner.
The boxers on this card will be performing in front of another sell-out crowd of movers and shakers as well as boxing legends that will include Hector Camacho, Jake LaMotta, Aaron Pryor, Ray Mancini and many others.
Gary,
ReplyDeleteall these charity boxing events, its all good. But are they(promoters)really giving money to the charity? Johnny Lange(reverse Robin Hood)? Jake Smith?
Beltway boxing fan-
As far as the Diego Corrales benefit card, that was a different situation. It looks like that one will be a one-time situation.
ReplyDeleteThis will be my first time going to the Jonathan Odgen Foundation. Jake's involvement is strictly in putting the bouts together for the card. He is not involved with the raising money for the foundation.
Fight Night is an annual event that literally raises millions of dollars for children's charities. Last year, the Alexandria Boxing Club was one of the recipients of funds from the event. Eric Bottjer's job (like Jake's) is to put bouts on the card. However, those who attend the event aren't particularly interested in who is fighting on the show. There is so much going on in that event that the live boxing is almost secondary.
The Fight Night card in DC and the Ogden Foundation card in Baltimore are both run by quality organizations that pay the promoter a set sum to deliver the card. In those situations, the total cost of the fight card is like the cost for the dinner or for the hall, and is just one more thing that is deducted from the tickets sales with the final balance being what is either given away to charities by Fight Night or by the Jonathan Ogden Foundation. Those organizations are legitimate entities that file tax returns and are scrutinized by the IRS as real tax exempt entities. What the Langes in Virginia do is a horse of a different color. Who knows how much money comes in and how much money goes to the Corrales family. The answer there is only something the Langes know and they have not come forward with any announcements that were published on the blog.
ReplyDeleteWhat happen to all the quality fights of years gone by,when they had world champions and future world champions fighting this card is a club show.
ReplyDeleteI'm truly just taking a stab but I really do believe that the budget may have been cut for the live boxing aspect of the card.
ReplyDeleteAgain, it is secondary to the other aspects of the event.
Having said that, an event like this is a good atmosphere for a solid prospect and someone like Jargal, for example, qualifies as such.
Fightnight has always been more about the special guests and "aura" than the fights themselves. The only fight in the past 10 years that matched two legit contenders was when Zab Judah stopped Darryl Tyson in 1998. They've had guys like Michael Grant, Frankie Randall, Hector Camacho, Butterbean, in the last 10 years but all against lesser competition.
ReplyDeleteIts just a bunch of non-boxing fans who go there to smoke cigars, be seen, and cheat on their wives. Needless to say, this event is not for the true boxing fan, because real boxing fans couldn't get one foot in the door. Certainly for a great cause, but for great boxing, go to Michaels 8th Avenue or Rosecroft.
To the Enlightened One:
ReplyDeleteAs my main main, the Godfather of Go Go says:
"Am I right?
Sho ya right!
I thought I was RIIIIGHHHTTT!"
Dead straight head on bullseye baby!
Now, with that said, I can go cause I got the paper and the connections, AND I am a boxing fan! For all these punk boy types at Fight Night who like to smoke their cigars (I don't smoke) and drink they little drinks with their pinkies out (I don't drink), and cheat on their wives (I hit that on the regular, so I'm SATSIFIED (check the spelling, I know what I'm doing) - that may be their thing, but at least it's for a good cause. To the Enlightened One, make more money baby, prosper, spread it around, and the world looks good from the top. See Ya!
MFG
MFG you sound just like that lame billy d that bit the dust ages ago. Can you even get in?
ReplyDeleteMFG (WTF does that even mean?)
ReplyDeleteAt least Enlightened One summed it up, with no pretense or hype...I wouldn't be surprised to see him ringside at any of the venues he mentioned.
Dean has lost his last 3 the only person he can beat is Thomas Snow And Teflon Boyd.Dean give it up.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a promoter trying to setup his next card!!
ReplyDeleteYeah probably from Virgina or West Virginia.
ReplyDeleteWho said Billy D bit the dust? I read the website consistently but I haven't commented in a while. I can't go to Fight Night because I have a previous committment in Atlantic City from Thursday to Sunday. Look me up at The Trump Taj Mahal! Me and the Mrs. gonna get our roll on! Come 7, come 11! You guys keep it real and quit perpetrating that junk and smelling like a skunk! - Ya HEARD! Holler if you hear me! And if you forgot, here it go:
ReplyDeleteFrom the one and onlyest
mever the loneliest
talking mess in fun
dark enough, don't need no sun
I clean up real nice
Had an Asian girl, called her sticky rice
I don't drink a martini
'cause it will shrink the weenie
every day while I'm alive
I keeps it real with Colt 45!
New Jacks, Young Bucks step up yo game or step off! This is old school flavor baby, Memphis Style! Back in the Stax Records days baby (ya'll don't know nothin' 'bout that)
BillybobD you don't sound like a brother...you sound like a brother wannabe...
ReplyDeleteI'm planning to do a boxing/dinner benefit show for Jimmy Lange and his family...
ReplyDeleteRight in time for Xmas shopping.
linda what difference does it make what color he is?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't to me. Seems to for him. Read his posts carefully...go back further if need be, maybe I am wrong, what's your take?
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ReplyDeleteBenefit boxing show for Jimmy and his father? wow! That sounds great.They can really use your help Boxbible. Good thinking!
ReplyDeleteNo... I was gonna do the benefit show "for" Jimmy Lange and his family... so "I" can benefit from it...
ReplyDeleteJOHN NORRIS,im in top flight shape again ready to stomp the teeth out me one more like last friday in my drive way,im after the chicago thurseday night fight night bad boyz i call en thats all im ready to roll to chicago sept 14 th 08 ph 715 276 1620
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