FIGHTING FOR HOPE Tonight’s card

Sixteen bouts, sparring sessions and local celebrity matchups highlight tonight’s “Fighting for Hope” amateur fight card at California Palms Hotel, 1051 North Canfield Rd., Austintown.

Sponsored by Lights Out Management, Banner Supply and Original Jay’s Hot Dogs, the group is teaming up with Hope Foundation of the Mahoning Valley to assist in raising funds and awareness for the organization in order to better assist the area’s chronically and terminally ill children.

THE BOUTS

85: Keonte Johnson (Detroit) vs. Carlos Johnson, Jr. (Cleveland).

85: Joshua Knuckles (Cleveland) vs. Duane Martin (Detroit).

Women 125: Ali Bates (Pittsburgh) vs. Kyla Savage (Cleveland).

130: Silvio Cercone (Pittsburgh) vs. Reginald Riggins (Cleveland).

Women 135: Eric Barone (Burnside A.C.) vs. Jordan Helgert (Pittsburgh).

135: Shavell Johnson (Columbus) vs. Zi Stalnacker (Akron).

140: Austin Gibson (Burnside A.C) vs. Adam Sawman (Salem B.C.).

140: Demonte Howell (South Side B.C.) vs. Drew Smith (Salem B.C).

140: Nate Cordova (Burnside A.C.) vs. Matthew Tyler (Cleveland).

145: Caleb Roderick (Pittsburgh) vs. Mark Williams (Detroit).

145: Rosie Morales (Butler) vs. Bruce Morton (Detroit).

160: C.C. Clark (Pittsburgh) vs. Hussein Villal (Detroit).

165: Cedric Wybkoff (Detroit) vs. Mardell Halas (Salem B.C.)

185: James Jackson (Ashtabula) vs. Josh Jones (Dayton).

185: Davon Siegfried (Butler) vs. Damon Norman (Ashtabula).

Heavyweight: Chris Young (Downtown B.C.) vs. Jordan Roussos (Pittsburgh).

Greg Gulas, The Neutral Corner