{"id":549495,"date":"2026-03-20T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549495\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:12:11","slug":"championship-boxing-set-to-return-to-the-blue-cross-arena-on-april-25-tickets-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549495\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship boxing set to return to the Blue Cross Arena on April 25, tickets available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 Championship boxing is making a comeback at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester. <\/p>\n<p>United and Healing Through Hope of Monroe County, along with Savage Life Promotions, announced the first major professional boxing event in Rochester in decades Thursday afternoon. Many of the fighters who will be participating were at the announcement. <\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the event celebrates Rochester\u2019s legacy as one of America\u2019s premier fight cities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not now \u2014 why not bring it back \u2014 why not give back Rochester its proud tradition \u2014 where we used to be for decades?\u201d an organizer said. <\/p>\n<p>Championship boxing returns to the Blue Cross Arena on Saturday, April 25. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluecrossarena.com\/events\/2026\/httpswwwbluecrossarenacomsparkeditorevent67222\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.bluecrossarena.com\/events\/2026\/httpswwwbluecrossarenacomsparkeditorevent67222\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets are on sale now.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/rochester-in-focus-march-1-2026\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/rochester-in-focus-march-1-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rochester in Focus: March 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/boxing\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">boxing<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/blue-cross-arena\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue cross arena<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 Championship boxing is making a comeback at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester. United and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[213727,703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-549495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-blue-cross-arena","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549495","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=549495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}