Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 A championship boxing event that took over Blue Cross Arena last month is facing a serious financial shortfall.<\/p>\n
Uniting and Healing Through Hope of Monroe County said the “Boxing Extravaganza,” hosted April 25 in partnership with Savage Life Promotions, fell well below expected paid attendance numbers, resulting in a deficit of more than $100,000.<\/p>\n
BACKGROUND: GALLERY: Three-day ‘Boxing Extravaganza’<\/a> | Fighters weigh in ahead of championship boxing’s return to Rochester<\/a> | Championship boxing to return to Rochester<\/a><\/p>\n The nonprofit organization is now asking the community for donations to help cover the loss. It will be holding a press conference Thursday to address the situation.<\/p>\n Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n The event promoted the message “Gloves Up, Guns Down,” an initiative aimed at giving young people positive alternatives to violence through boxing and mentorship programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 A championship boxing event that took over Blue Cross Arena last month is facing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-653148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653148","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=653148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}