BROOKLYN – The Daily News Golden Gloves, the nation’s largest and most prestigious amateur boxing tournament, will relocate to Barclays Center in Brooklyn when it holds its two-day Finals event in April 2013.
“The Golden Gloves will be the lynchpin of our grass-roots boxing program at Barclays Center,” said Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark. “While Golden Boy Promotions will bring the best of professional boxing back to Brooklyn, we are excited to host such a New York institution as the Daily News Golden Gloves. There’s a rich heritage of boxing in Brooklyn and we are thrilled to make the sport a major part of our new arena.”
Since its inception, the iconic Daily News Golden Gloves has produced many boxing greats, including World Champions Emile Griffith, Jose Torres, Floyd Paterson, Howard Davis, and Brooklyn natives Riddick Bowe and Mark Breland, who won five Golden Gloves titles and a gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games.
”The Daily News is excited to announce that the iconic Golden Gloves Finals will take place at the new Barclays Center in 2013, beginning an exciting new chapter in the rich history of the tournament,” said Daily News CEO Bill Holiber. “The Barclays Center will bring a new excitement to the sport of boxing and as a true partner of the Golden Gloves, will help the Daily News continue our strong tradition of supporting amateur boxing in New York.”
The Golden Gloves tournament, which will celebrate its 86th anniversary at Barclays Center, begins with several weeks of elimination bouts held throughout the New York metropolitan area beginning annually in January and then culminates with the Finals at the Barclays Center, where male and female championship bouts will be held over two days in April.
Opening on September 28, 2012, Barclays Center will launch with a three-month grand opening celebration, which will include a major professional boxing event. In July of 2010, Barclays Center formed a programming alliance with Golden Boy Promotions, the world’s leading boxing promoter and whose president is Oscar de la Hoya. As part of the partnership, Barclays Center will hold at least one boxing event a month, in addition to the Daily News Golden Gloves Finals.
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About the Daily News
The New York Daily News is the largest and most widely-read newspaper in the New York City metropolitan area and second largest local media website in New York. Founded in 1919, the Daily News has won 10 Pulitzer Prize Awards for excellence in journalism. The Daily News is the fourth largest daily and the sixth largest Sunday newspaper circulated in the United States and features the largest combined print and online audience of any metropolitan newspaper in the country. NYDailyNews.com is one of the top twelve news websites in the United States. New York’s Hometown Newspaper is also available as an iPad app and on Blackberry, iPhone and Android mobile devices and features the third-largest digital circulation of any newspaper in the country. The Daily News is committed to the people and communities of the five boroughs, sponsoring numerous community events and programs such as the Daily News Golden Gloves, the annual Daily News Spelling Bee, Citizenship NOW!, the Daily News Readers Care Food Drive with City Harvest and more.
About Barclays Center
Scheduled to open in September 2012, Barclays Center will be a major sports and entertainment venue in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. Developed by Brooklyn-based real estate developer Forest City Ratner Companies, and designed by the award-winning architectural firms AECOM (www.aecom.com/architecture) and SHoP Architects (www.shoparc.com), Barclays Center will have one of the most intimate seating configurations ever designed into a modern multi-purpose arena, with unparalleled sightlines and first-class amenities. Barclays Center will offer approximately 18,000 seats for basketball and up to 19,000 seats for concerts, and will also have 100 luxury suites, four bars/lounges, three clubs, and a restaurant.
Barclays Center will host an extensive variety of events, including premier concerts, monthly major professional boxing cards, top college basketball, family shows, professional hockey, and NETS Basketball. Some of the special programming that is already scheduled includes JAY Z, who will open the building on September 28 with the first of his multiple concerts, Andrea Bocelli, the Barclays Center Classic men’s college basketball tournament, Atlantic 10 Men’s Basketball Championship, Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, Legends Classic, Islanders vs. Devils game, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and Disney on Ice, and the New York Masters equestrian show jumping. Current programming alliances with Barclays Center include Golden Boy Promotions, IMG, Feld Entertainment, Lagardère Unlimited, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
In addition to Barclays, the naming rights partner, Founding Partners for Barclays Center include Cushman & Wakefield, EmblemHealth, Foxwoods Resort Casino, MetroPCS, and Stolichnaya. Other sponsors include: Anheuser-Busch, The Coca-Cola Company, Haier America, HighPoint Solutions, LIU Brooklyn, New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Phillips-Van Heusen, Tyco, and Willis.
Located atop one of the largest transportation hubs in New York City, Barclays Center will be accessible by 11 subway lines and the Long Island Rail Road.
For more information on Barclays Center please visit www.barclayscenter.com.
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Barclays Center Grand Opening Celebration
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