Daily News Golden Gloves
April 17, 2008 — April 18, 2008 at WaMu Theater at MSG
81st Anniversary
The Daily News Golden Gloves is the oldest and largest amateur boxing tournament in the world. Since 1927, hundreds of amateur boxers from across the New York metropolitan area have fought their way to Madison Square Garden for a chance to win a Daily News Golden Gloves championship.
The 81st Annual Daily News Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament kicked off in January. This year, more than 1,000 amateur boxing hopefuls signed up for consideration — up from around 600 last year. Organizers say this is the highest turnout for the world's oldest amateur boxing tournament since the 1970s.
The Daily News Golden Gloves is perhaps best known as the launching pad for many professional pugilists, including world champions Emile Griffith, Jose Torres, Floyd Patterson, Howard Davis, Riddick Bowe, Mark Breland, Zab Judah, three-time world women's lightweight champ Alicia Ashley, and Melissa Salamone.
The Daily News Golden Gloves tournament consists of approximately 12 weeks of elimination bouts held throughout the New York metropolitan area. A field of hundreds of fighters will be narrowed down through these bouts to compete in the finals at The WAMU Theater at Madison Square Garden, to be held on April 18 and 19. For more information about the Daily News Golden Gloves, visit NYDailyNews.com/GoldenGloves.
