Sponsors sought for boxing events

Boxing membership Gloves Not Weapons has signed a contract with the Pine Bluff Conference Heart to host two Silver Gloves qualifying tournaments within the subsequent two months.

All of the group desires now are sponsors.

“That is for town of Pine Bluff,” membership founder and director Albert Brewer mentioned. “We will seize their consideration that this can be a match they will need to come again to yearly.”

The Arkansas State Silver Gloves is about for June 4-5. It was held for a few years on the North Little Rock Neighborhood Heart.

Winners from that match will compete within the Area 6 Silver Gloves, set for July 24-26 in Pine Bluff. The area is made up of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas.

Silver Gloves is a nationwide match for boxers 16 and youthful that’s held in the identical spirit of the Golden Gloves, the premier novice boxing championship within the U.S. Darrion White, now 10, gained the nationwide championship on the 45-pound division in his age group two years in the past and wore his belt to a ceremony exterior the Conference Heart marquee Tuesday. The Pine Bluff Regional Chamber of Commerce Redcoats held the ceremony to welcome Gloves Not Weapons as a member.

Brewer, a former All-Military boxer, has mentioned his aim is to make Pine Bluff the game’s capital of Arkansas.

“We have got a variety of expertise,” mentioned Jammie Robertson, who volunteers as a coach with Gloves Not Weapons. “We have got a variety of youngsters. It may very well be an actual good program. We simply need assistance to maintain it going. We placed on a battle about three weeks in the past, and we had about eight new youngsters simply present up, desirous to battle as a result of a few of them got here and had seen the way it was.”

Robertson additionally advised the story of how his son Desmond, now 15, went from being a “sofa potato” and enjoying video video games to studying how you can field competitively. Desmond seems to be ahead to competing in his hometown.

“I imagine I will do higher as a result of I have been working exhausting and been working with knowledgeable,” Desmond mentioned.

Extra details about sponsoring the state and area Silver Gloves tournaments is on the market from Brewer at (870) 329-3875.