{"id":458996,"date":"2026-02-07T04:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458996\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:14:16","slug":"young-boxer-receives-scholarship-at-river-city-fight-night-charity-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458996\/","title":{"rendered":"Young boxer receives scholarship at River City Fight Night charity event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emonie Athey received the second Guardian of the Gloves boxing scholarship Thursday night at River City Fight Night, held at Great American Ranch in Midlothian.<\/p>\n

The scholarship provides a year-long membership to Vintage Boxing Gym<\/a> and covers tournament expenses, travel costs and boxing gear. Athey has been training at the gym with her father for about a year.<\/p>\n

“She is a tough little girl with the biggest smile, and she’s tough,” Vintage Boxing Gym General Manager Liz Cane said about the young recipient.<\/p>\n

The evening also honored first responders who participated in the previous River City Fight Night event on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n

River City Fight Night showcases WBC title fighters and local professional boxers in 4-5 bouts. The monthly charity boxing series rotates between Great American Ranch in Midlothian and River City Roll in Richmond.<\/p>\n

Proceeds from the events support Guardian of the Gloves<\/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring every child has the opportunity to participate in boxing, regardless of financial means.<\/p>\n

The main event featured Andrew Kim versus Roberto Cantos. Kim started boxing at Vintage Boxing Gym six years ago and now serves as a coach and mentor at the facility.<\/p>\n

Three fights featured Vintage Boxing Gym members competing to help raise money for the Guardian of the Gloves scholarship program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emonie Athey received the second Guardian of the Gloves boxing scholarship Thursday night at River City Fight Night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,187823,187826,187821,187825,187828,187829,187822,82,187824,187830,187827],"class_list":["post-458996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charity-boxing","tag-great-american-ranch","tag-guardian-of-the-gloves","tag-midlothian-boxing","tag-nonprofit-boxing","tag-richmond-boxing","tag-river-city-fight-night","tag-sports","tag-vintage-boxing-gym","tag-wbc-fighters","tag-youth-boxing-scholarships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}