Monday, December 05, 2011

'Capital Showdown' Weigh-in Friday at Carnegie Library; Event Open to Public!

The official weigh-in for the "Capital Showdown" card will be on Friday, December 9 at 2 PM at the Carnegie Library, 801 K Street NW at Mount Vernon Square in DC. All the boxers are slated to be there along with Golden Boy representatives Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins.

The event is open to the public but space is limited on a first come, first served basis.

By the way, the "Capital Showdown" card itself on Saturday, December 10 at the Washington Convention Center will begin at 6:30 PM ET with the HBO telecast to get underway at 9:45 PM ET.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why is the first fight so early? Almost 5 hours before the HBO telecast starts.

Anonymous said...

Because its 9fights total on the card.

Anonymous said...

There are 7 non televised fights and 2 televised fights. I doesn't take 5 hours to have 7 fights, especially when 4 of them are 4 rounders. There's gonna alot of extra time, even more so if there is knockouts

Anonymous said...

I heard that LMAO. Just stay your broke ass home.

Anonymous said...

This is a boxing outing and if you don't like the logistics involved then you don't have to go or even watch it on TV.
As Don King would say,(Welcome to America)

Anonymous said...

What do you know about boxing? The Cotto-Margarito fight had 9 fights and started at 7. This card has 9 fights (3 of which STILL don't have opponents) and starts at 5. Tell me how that makes sense. I know how these DC promotions work, there is gonna be a lot of standing around. Thats why DC doesn't get big fights.

Anonymous said...

in all seriousness...5pm is kinda early, haha, stupid monkies

Gary Digital Williams said...

The Beltway Brawl in 1994 started at 4:30. They had 12 bouts and didn't end until 1 am. Most Don King cards were like that. This really isn't that early.

Yes there will be some down time, but this isn't that early.

Anonymous said...

Bro that was like, what...almost 20 years ago. In 20 years, the drastic improvements in technology and human intellect is supposed to speed things up. You mean that the DC area is still operating the same way they did 20 years ago...wow! No wonder.

Anonymous said...

Golden Boy is saying 1st fight is at 6:30

Brian said...

You will have an intermission early on long before they go live possibly.

Let us remember this isn't a boxing show it is an event, plenty of time to network and politick,

it is an event, that is the first
in awhile of many...Let us put on a good show and represent the Beltway scene.

Events like this bolster our bottom line, business is up, Golden Boy spending Golden money while they are in the region.

Brian said...

long day for sure, but it maybe well worth it for our boxing landscape