16.03.04 – OSF Sports and Entertainment, Inc, a division of OSF, Inc along with Corona Deportiva, is hosting Grand Casino Coushatta’s Friday Night Fights featuring a Texas Jr. Flyweight Championship this Friday March 19, 2004 in Houston Texas at the International Ballroom at 14035 S. Main and Hillcroft. The current Texas Flyweight Female Championship will be on the line as current Champion Anissa Zamarron 16-9-2 (5 KO’s) of Austin will be taking on Johanna Alvarez 14-2 (5 KO’s) of New Jersey. The Main event will feature Sugarlands Guadalupe Martinez 11-0 (8 KO’s) against Maurice Chalmers 6-5-1 (3 KO’s) of Houston. Mexican Featherweight Benjamin Flores 2-0 (2 KO’s) will be fighting Lamont Lindsey 1-0 in a four rounder. Plus Heavyweights Enrigue Velasquez and Marvin Williams will be making their pro debuts. Two more fights are also scheduled with fighters making their pro debuts.
I caught up with OSF, CEO Lloyd Broussard and he had this to say, ”We’re excited to have this card scheduled in a place that is becoming a trademark for boxing in the Houston area. Fans are recognizing that this is a place you come to watch good action packed fights and this Fridays’ card will be no different. In the Championship fight of the evening, Zamarron and Alvarez are not only beautiful women but they are skilled and in the co-featured bout we have Guadalupe Martinez and he and another fighter we have on the card Benjamin Flores are young men with a lot of heart and skill and they will be Champions some day. So tell everybody to come out because you are in for well matched and good quality fights this Friday!”
Tickets are available now at Ticketmaster.com, at all Ticketmaster outlets and at the Houston Interantional Ballroom ticket office at 713-729-1400. General admission tickets are $25. VIP tickets and Ringside tables are also available by calling the Ballroom ticket office. Don’t delay get your tickets now!
Carlos “Stiff-jab” Kalinchuk
Contributing Writer & Photographer