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We're excited to be promoting the Fight For A Life Foundation, a charity benefiting Pediatric HIV/AIDs. Brooke Gilchrist, Executive Director of FFAL and Managing Director for The Metropolitan Marketing Group, has also brought Riddick Bowe on as the spokesperson for the Foundation and will be promoting the events leading up to the proposed September 11th, 2010 exhibition boxing match. It looks like Baltimore might win the bid for this event. They are offering up Camden Yard for free, getting big-name people involved with the charity, and already have partners and sponsors committed. Washington has been a bit quieter. I'm wondering if they are really "fighting it out" as one put it on the Ed Norris Show (105.7FM Baltimore). Nice terms to hold it in the DC area, but considering it's a charity, I'd hope so. The bottom line is that this event will bring at least 15,000 people in for the night. Hotels, restaurants and hospitality industries will certainly benefit from events spanning 3 days, along with the September 11th memorial events and the start of the football season, it will be a star studded weekend. Let's not forget the jobs and revenue for each city; staffing for the venue, security, temp employees, merchandising, food and beverage sales. If Bowe ends up locking Lennox Lewis in, then we could expect even more.

Is it time to bring an event and charity like this to our nation's capital or make a home in Baltimore, where it seems, boxing is still king?

Don't forget to join us Friday, March 26th at Public Bar DC.