{"id":485407,"date":"2010-03-29T10:47:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec4e3cf6970b"},"modified":"2010-03-29T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:47:07","slug":"ban-on-professional-boxing-may-be-lifted-in-glendale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/485407","title":{"rendered":"Ban on professional boxing may be lifted in Glendale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.artofboxingpromotions.com\/media_images\/FINAL%20%20GLENDALE%20GLORY%20POSTER18x24.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artofboxingpromotions.com\/media_images\/FINAL%20%20GLENDALE%20GLORY%20POSTER18x24.jpg\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 5px 5px 0pt; WIDTH: 180px; HEIGHT: 238px\" title=\"http:\/\/www.artofboxingpromotions.com\/media_images\/FINAL%20%20GLENDALE%20GLORY%20POSTER18x24.jpg\"><\/img><span>For decades, Glendale has banned professional boxing, fearing it would bring the wrong element to the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But on Tuesday, the City Council may permanently lift the ban, with some critics even saying they think it&#8217;s a good idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><span>A wary City Council last year voted to temporarily lift a 62-year ban on pro boxing matches in the city after promoters and local boxers lobbied to open up the Glendale market.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The yearlong trial period\u2019s two events ran smoothly and generated about $20,000 in revenue for the Glendale Civic Auditorium &#8212; two reasons why city officials are recommending that the City Council approve permanently lifting the ban, according to a city report.<br \/><\/br><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both events were produced by local fighter and promoter Kahren Karutyunyan\u2019s Art of Boxing Productions, with the second match nationally televised on ESPN.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat gave great exposure to the promoter, the city and the Civic Auditorium,\u201d Brittney Bilotti, community services administrator with the Community Services\u00a0and Parks department, told the Glendale News-Press.<br \/><\/br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glendalenewspress.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/29\/politics\/gnp-boxing032910.txt\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melanie Hicken<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: A poster from\u00a0one of the\u00a0Art of Boxing events in Glendale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/br><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, Glendale has banned professional boxing, fearing it would bring the wrong element to the city. But on Tuesday, the City Council may permanently lift the ban, with some critics even saying they think it&#8217;s a good idea. A wary City Council last year voted to temporarily lift a 62-year ban on pro boxing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}