{"id":854388,"date":"2026-08-11T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854388\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:12:08","slug":"organizers-cancel-boxing-event-headlined-by-hasim-rahman-in-rochester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854388\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers cancel boxing event headlined by Hasim Rahman in Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 A boxing event scheduled to be held at the home of the Rochester Red Wings has been canceled by organizers, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The event was slated to be headlined by two-time world heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman, 53, as he kicked off his campaign to become the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history. <\/p>\n

BACKGROUND: New date, opponent announced for Hasim Rahman’s fight in Rochester<\/a> | Boxer Hasim ‘The Rock’ Rahman eyes comeback at age 53, with fight planned for Rochester<\/a><\/p>\n

The Red Wings said tickets purchased through the team have already been refunded. Those purchased through a third party will have go to through the original point of purchase for a refund.<\/p>\n

No details about what led to the cancellation have been released. The event was originally scheduled for July 14 before being rescheduled to Aug. 18.<\/p>\n

A separate boxing event in Rochester, held April 25 at the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial, was marred by lower-than-expected attendance and an estimated $100,000 deficit \u2014 including late payments to fighters \u2014 that organizers have been working to repay.<\/p>\n

BACKGROUND: Organizers say most fighters have been paid after boxing event left $100K deficit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 A boxing event scheduled to be held at the home of the Rochester Red Wings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-854388","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\/854388","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=854388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}