Past, Present And Future of Boxing Converge

in Atlantic City Saturday Night Live on GFL

This Saturday February 6th at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, NJ, Joe DeGuardia’s Star

Boxing presents an exciting six bout card, headlined by Atlantic City’s own welterweight contender

Shamone “The Truth” Alvarez (20-2, 11KO) taking on exciting knockout artist Alexis Camacho (17-2, 16KO)

being shown live on GoFightLive.tv. The show certainly brings together the past, present and future of

Boxing in Atlantic City, and the industry in general. The ‘time machine’ factor adds to the other elements of

this show that make it a bit more special then just your ordinary night of boxing in Atlantic City.

The whole card can be viewed on www.gofightlive.tv for just $5.99 at 7:00 pm eastern time by clicking:

http://www.gofightlive.tv/showEvent.do?event=589 

For starters, Alexis Camacho, one of the main event participants, recently began working with legendary

trainer, and New Jersey native, Lou Duva. This will be Camacho’s first fight with Duva as his trainer. Duva, is

one of the biggest names in boxing history, having trained countless world champions throughout his career,

including most notably two of boxing’s all-time greats, Pernell Whitaker and Evander Holyfield. Certainly,

Duva has a longstanding history with the great past of Atlantic City.

The show Saturday night at the Tropicana will be the first professional boxing event held there in a long time.

DeGuardia, who has consistently promoted shows throughout Atlantic City for years, hopes the success of

the show Saturday night will be the first of a soon to be series of Star Boxing promoted events at the

Tropicana.

In addition to DeGuardia’s own events with his company Star Boxing, he has plans with the newly formed

Boxing Promoters Association (which DeGuardia serves as the President) to bring boxing back to what it

once was in Atlantic City. DeGuardia feels in time Atlantic City will again become a true fight city, where

many of boxing biggest fights once took place.

“On Saturday night, significant elements of the past, present and future of boxing will all be at the Tropicana

Casino in Resort,” stated DeGuardia. “Lou Duva was around when boxing was at an all-time high in Atlantic

City, now on Saturday night he brings in one of his newest bangers. For awhile now Star Boxing has been

consistently promoting shows in Atlantic City, we usually try to do at least a handful year in and year out,

but this is the first time we are doing a show at the Tropicana in four years. The Tropicana is one of the the

hottest night spots in all of Atlantic City, and we are looking to build off the success of this show Saturday

with the intent of creating a regular series there. Further, I strongly believe that the future of the sport will

strongly be dictated by the newly formed Boxing Promoters Association (BPA), which includes over 30 of

the top U.S. promoters. There is nothing like seeing a live boxing event and Saturday promises to live up to

the tradition and history of boxing in Atlantic City. We at Star Boxing and the BPA in general, truly believe

that boxing is going to continue to flourish, and the fan base is going to continue to grow. I am very excited

with the progress we have made thus far since the creation this past summer, and equally as excited to be

returning to the Tropicana, to present an exciting an action-packed night of boxing this Saturday night. I am

optimistic about the future of boxing in Atlantic City.”

The Tropicana Casino and Resort is located at 2831 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ and can be contacted by

calling (609) 340-4000. Tickets are priced at $100 (ringside), $50 and $30 with a limited number of V.I.P.

packages available at $200. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Star Boxing office at (718) 823-2000 or

visiting www.starboxing.com. Tickets may also be purchased at any Ticketmaster outlet,

www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Tropicana North Tower Box Office.

About Star Boxing:

Star Boxing, Inc. has been in operation since 1992. Star Boxing has worked to produce some of the most

exciting and memorable boxing events in recent history. Star has continued to work with and develop a

number of very exciting world champions, world rated contenders and young prospects. Star has

consistently brought credibility, integrity, and exciting fights to the boxing industry. For more information on

Star Boxing, visit the official website at www.starboxing.com.

About Tropicana Casino & Resort:

The Tropicana Casino & Resort is a 24-hour gaming destination located on the beach and Boardwalk.

Featuring more than 2,100 rooms and suites and home of The Quarter, a 200,000 square foot entertainment

complex, Tropicana is the premier resort in Atlantic City. With more than 20 restaurants, 25 shops, 12 bars

and lounges, 2 pools, an IMAX Theatre and a spa, Tropicana is consistently rated as the “Must-See

Attraction” in Atlantic City. For more information, visit the new official Web Site at www.tropicana.net For

more exclusive discounts, current information, pictures, and video, be sure to check out the Tropicana on

the Web at www.facebook.com/TropAC or follow us on Twitter twitter.com/TropicanaAC.

- Press Release from GFL with a little editing from us (color, etc..)

Subject to change

(2/4/10)