Organizers are pulling out all the stops to make the card an attraction. Thursday’s introductory press conference was staged on a yacht docked in Pier 33 Alcatraz Landing. The Civic Center Plaza fight setting will happen in the shadow of City Hall. Oscar Bonifacino, an openly gay boxer, will fight in the co-feature, partly in recognition of San Francisco’s thriving LGBTQ+ community. The event goal: to beat boxing’s all-time attendance record of 135,132. Even Olascuaga, 12-1 (9 KOs), who may not be boxing’s splashiest name, is a heavy-handed belt holder whose only loss came in his sixth career fight, against an excellent then-titleholder in Kenshiro Teraji.
