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U.S. Cellular Field Boxing Event

Boxing at the Park

World class professional boxing is returning to US Cellular Field, home of the Chicago White Sox August 23, 2014, starting at 6:00 PM. Local fight promoters, Hitz Boxing and Round 3 Productions signed on to stage this event at the South Side stadium. Last year’s event attracted 8,200 fans for the first outdoor boxing match in over a century.

The fights marked the first outdoor boxing event since 1962 at Comiskey Park when Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson to win the World’s heavyweight title.

This time around, Chicago’s own Donovan “Don Da Bomb” George (25-4-2, 22 Kos) will be fighting for the Super Middleweight World Title against Dyah Davis of Coconut Creek, Florida. Both of the boxing promoters for this event, Bobby Hitz of Hitz Boxing and Frank Mugnolo of Round 3 Productions signed George to their contract. When George won his first Golden Gloves championship it was Bobby Hitz who presented him with his trophy.

Hitz Boxing and Round 3 Productions just recently started working together in 2013. Hitz holds the record for longest running boxing promoter in Chicagoland.

Two other hometown boxing favorites representing Chicago are Frankie “Time Bomb” Scalise and Mike “Hollywood” Jimenez.

The boxing event is presented by B96 and will be hosted by The J Show’s very own J Niice and Showbiz Shelly. If you get to the park early on Saturday B96 will be hosting a live tailgate event for all the fans. If you do not have you tickets you can purchase them here.

Once you get your tickets for the event then you can purchase parking with Park Jockey at the McClellan school here!

You can also receive $5.00 off by using the promo code BOX14.

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The rematch: Froch Vs Groves

This Saturday 31st May the stage is all but set! Victory is all that matters between the these two British powerhouses.

Around 80,000 eye-witness spectators will be packed inside a near to capacity Wembley Stadium, sitting on the edge of their seats that loom over the ringside of Carl Froch vs George Groves II: The Battle of Britain. The fight is a rematch to a previous duel between the pair, in which Froch triumphed. carousel-froch-groves_3040466

Now Groves wants to put the record straight,  and prove his doubters wrong. However, if there was ever a harder opponent to face, then he comes in the name of Carl Froch. The man has only been defeated twice in his entire professional career, and currently holds the WBA and IBF super middleweight titles.  This highly anticipated fight, is going to be a spectacle. If I was to call it, I’d say Groves won’t give up till the last bell, so Froch to clinch it unanimously after 12.

If you are planning on driving to Wembley and need parking then book with ParkJockey, we have a special promo-code as well so you can get 10% off instead of being punched by extortionate prices! Find parking here, and use ‘BOXING10’ at the checkout!

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