What: 18th Annual Salute to Philly Boxers Awards Banquet
When: Sunday, January 5, 2014
Where: 3901 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Time: 6 PM
Tickets: $30
Contacts: David Wilkes (215-222-7127), Sloan Harrison (215-471-6540), Eddie Everett (215-755-3859)
The votes are still being tallied for all the nominees. But it is safe to say that Danny “Swift” Garcia will win “Boxer of the Year.”
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
