ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 Organizers behind Rochester\u2019s recent boxing event are asking the community for donations after the event left them more than $100,000 in debt.<\/p>\n
RELATED: Boxing event in Rochester leaves promoters more than $100K in debt, fighters still unpaid<\/a><\/p>\n United and Healing Through Hope of Monroe County, the organization that ran the event in partnership with Savage Life Promotions, says they couldn\u2019t sell enough tickets to cover the costs. They\u2019re still on the hook to pay the Blue Cross Arena and the boxers.<\/p>\n Organizers Clay Harris and Derick Gramling outlined next steps Thursday, including a public appeal for donations.<\/p>\n \u201cRochester knows that Clay Harris and his organization has poured into this city, without any compensation, just for the love. We\u2019re asking Rochester now, and this region, is to help us now,\u201d Harris said. <\/p>\n During the interview, News10NBC\u2019s Erin Mahon asked, \u201cIs it the community\u2019s responsibility to pay for the consequence of this event?\u201d <\/p>\n Harris responded, evading the question, by asking if Mahon attends church, and followed by quoting the Bible saying, \u201cThe Lord says, \u2018We are our brother\u2019s keeper. We ought to bare one another\u2019s burdens in the time of need.’\u201d <\/p>\n Watch the extended version of that interaction: <\/p>\n The New York State Athletic Commission has suspended Gramling and says it is taking steps to hold promoters accountable for paying athletes and participants.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Stay with News10NBC for updates.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0boxing<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Blue cross arena<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 Organizers behind Rochester\u2019s recent boxing event are asking the community for donations after the event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,273115,802,85],"class_list":["post-656174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blue-cross-arena","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}