Expert: Alan Kahn - 4/5/2008

Question
Hi
Some year ago I Regularly attended dinner amateur boxing evenings in Birmingham area, I have a group of business some 12 colleges how would very much like to meet at a venue in the Birmingham/Midlands area @ a boxing dinner  event can you advise me of any forth coming events or how I can contact in is area. Regards Chris Samson

Answer
HI Chris,

It's great that you and your friends want to meet around a boxing oriented venue, and I believe the Olympic boxing team is going to have a demo in Birmingham during May 2008. Here is a link.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20080409/APS/804092316&source=RSS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The U.S. Olympic boxing team, including Tuscaloosa native Deontay Wilder, will fight an exhibition in Birmingham on May 28 against the Dominican Republic.

The 11-bout exhibition at Boutwell Auditorium includes eight boxers who have qualified for the Beijing Games in August. The other three could make the team before the exhibition.

Wilder, a heavyweight, is an unlikely Olympian who became the first U.S. boxer to qualify for the Olympics after only 20 career fights. He gave up college scholarship opportunities in other sports to help support his daughter, who has spina bifida.

Wilder was working for a Budweiser distributor when he stepped into a boxing gym on a whim two years ago.

The U.S. team also has exhibitions in Philadelphia and Chattanooga.

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here is their calendar:

http://www.usaboxing.org/88.htm

Hope this helps.

sincerely,

Alan Kahn