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Popular Champion Boxer Jimmy Lange to Use Celebrity to Help Fallen Fighter’s Family with Benefit |
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Written by Media Relations
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
McLean, VA (September 24, 2007) – Northern Virginia fighter Jimmy Lange, who captured the World Boxing Council (WBC) Continental Americas 154-pound title last spring, is more than just your typical boxing champion. The “Fan Favorite” of the season one realty-boxing TV program “The Contender” whose fights have consistently drawn thousands of enthusiastic fans will use his celebrity to help a deceased fighter’s family.
On Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner (7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va.), Lange is hosting a tribute to former colleague and world champion Diego “Chico” Corrales -- the two trained together in Florida -- by staging a special evening featuring five professional bouts, a musical performance by Emil Stucchio & The Classics, a three-course dinner and a silent auction. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Corrales’ wife and six children. Corrales, known as an extremely fierce competitor who always gave 100-percent inside the ring, was killed in a motorcycle accident last May.
In the evening’s Main Event, Washington, D.C. junior middleweight Luther “Sugarman” Smith (22-5, 12 KOs) will seek his 23rd career victory by taking on Ohio’s Jesse Williams (3-4-1, 1 KO) in a six-round contest. Smith, undefeated in his first 19 professional bouts, is looking to get back on the winning track after suffering a loss to highly-regarded David Estrada last July in West Palm Beach, Fla. The former contender’s biggest victory to date occurred in 2002 when he scored a second-round knock out of Oba Carr.
The rest of the five-bout card scheduled by matchmaker Joe Hensley features a host of rising talents.
4 Rounds - Middleweights
Ron Reaves vs. Charles Norwood
(2-0, 1 KO) (2-1, 1KO)
Washington, D.C. Roanoke, VA via Baltimore, Md.
4 Rounds - Featherweights
Angelo Ward vs. James Franks
(Pro Debut) (2-3, 2 KOs)
Baltimore, Md. Norfolk, Va.
4 Rounds – Middleweights
John Mackey vs. James North
(6-0, 3 KOs) (8-18, 3 KOs)
Birmingham, Ala. Weston, W.Vavia Washington, D.C.
4 Rounds – Middleweights
George Rivera vs. John Terry
(4-1, 2 KOs) (2-6, 1 KO)
Charlottesville, Va. Portsmouth, Va.
(Bouts subject to change)
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