With 12 weeks of training beginning on April 16th, any individual that works in the local service industry (or any profession that ever wore an apron, for that matter) can live the dream, and trade in their apron for a pair of boxing gloves in order to fight for the greater good.
They will train in a real gym, with real fighters and for just one night they will experience the lights, the energy and the adrenaline while they duel to the death* in a battle of fisticuffs in front of hundreds of their peers!
Bartenders, barbers, butchers and baristas will battle! Meat Packers, Managers, Maids and the Maître ‘D will maim* one another!
This is a once in a lifetime chance to compete in a grueling spectacle of carnage* with a punctuation of barely palatable pageantry!
It will be a tertiary-sector tilt; a foie-gras-fueled fight night! Watch in content as the bitter, brawling fists of the bartender mercilessly mangle the restaurant manager’s mug.
By the end of their training, participants will be so tough both mentally and physical that in the words of Muhammad Ali, they will be “murdering rocks” and “injuring stones”! They will be able to “hospitalize a brick” – they’ll be “so mean they’ll make medicine sick”!
*No one will be murdered, maimed or harmed in any way. There will be no actual carnage. It is more likely that someone will experience exhaustion before any possibility of physical injury can occur. It should actually be more of a comedy fest than a slugfest.
The Breakdown
Participation in the event involves a 4-step process as follows:
- Application: fill out an application form online. Provide a photo and a refundable deposit payment in order to ?make it official? and move to the next step. Want to get involved, but don?t want to box? We are taking Ring Girl and Ring Announcer applications as well.
- Assessment: is essentially a tryout that will be based on a variety of things, none of which include boxing ability, natural talent or current level of athleticism. There could be as many as 60+ potential boxers being assessed at the tryouts, 30 of which will move on to the training portion of the event.
- Training: Contenders will train a minimum of 2 days per week for the 12 weeks leading up to the event. They may train every day if they?d like. During this period, they will be responsible for collecting monetary pledges in order to raise funds for the cause. At the 9-week mark, the field of 30 will be whittled down to 16 and the matchups will be made for our 8 Restaurant Rumble bouts.
- Fight Night: Pretty self-explanatory. The boxing matches will be held on Wednesday, July 25th at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University
149 W. Hastings Street, in Gastown. Tickets will go on sale in June. It is guaranteed to be a spectacle that no one will soon forget!
