 Hi, I'm Tom Handel with a CTN member highlight. We're featuring this time the Portland Boxing Club and I have here with me Bobby Russo from the Portland Boxing Club to talk about a big event that's coming up. But before we get into that, could you talk a little bit about what the Portland Boxing Club is and the fact that it's a non-profit and what you do? We've been at the Portland Boxing Club for 21 years and it's a non-profit organization. It's mostly a youth organization and this is how we raise money by doing events and sponsors and so on. We've had great success at the Portland Boxing Club. The Portland Boxing Club is for anybody that's interested in boxing and learning how to box? Yep, amateur boxing. That is predominantly an amateur boxing program but the really good prospects turn into pros which is why we're going to the expo now because we have some pros. Okay, and I understand many years you've been hosting the Northeastern Championship this year, but instead you're having this big event, can you describe it a little? Well, this is the 98th show that we've done and it's really a time that we've kind of outgrown our venues that we've had. The expo modeled us there, the time is right and we're ready. We got the pros to fill the card with and plus some amateur belts too, our best amateurs will be on that show and the main event will be potentially an North American Championship fight. That's not, that's in negotiations right now, but the main event is Ryan Kilslowski from Quincy, Massachusetts who's 17 and 0, just fought on ESPN recently and hot prospect. You're telling me before a little bit about the history of Portland as a boxing city. Can you talk about that a little? Well, Portland in the 60s and 70s was the proclaimed the busiest fight town in the world at that time and it was like a 10-year run every Thursday night for about 10 years. Pack the house. It was like a sports, a Portland sports franchise. So it was really cool. I grew up doing, I was the glove boy at the expo as a little kid and my uncle was the boxing commission and I saw every bout for the whole run and I've been addicted to boxing ever since. So this big event is sort of a little bit of restoring the former glory of those? It is and it's been kind of a goal of mine to get boxing back at the expo and so it's kind of a personal win too for me and we're ready. Like I said, we've done 98 shows and this is the 98th and we've outgrown our venues and we can do the expo now. We've got the pros and we're ready to go. And I understand that some of the pros that will be in this big event are actually from the ranks of Portland Boxing Club, right? Yes. I mean, actually every fighter on that show has box at the Portland Expo, I mean at the Portland Boxing Club at the shows that we've done. The Heat, Ryan fought Jorge who was in a separate bout there in the New England championship a few years back. Ryan, who are the three that are? My personal three are actually I have Russell LaMaure, he's a middleweight, he's five and always a pro. Russell is a highly acclaimed amateur boxer who had like a hundred amateur fights, fought for the U.S. Boxing team, fought all over the world. He's five and always a pro. Jorge Abiyage, he was the national Golden Globes flyweight champion. He's undefeated as a pro. Jimmy Smith, who also came through the program, he's having his second pro fight. He was a New England Golden Globes champion, spent a lot of time in the Marines so he was kind of away from us for a while. You know didn't Iraq twice and so on. And then there is Brandon Berry, who's from the West Forks in Maine. And he has a great following, he's undefeated as a pro as well. In the main event is Ryan Kilsleski from Quincy Mass, who's 17 and 0 as a pro. He just fought on ESPN in July and negotiations are underway for an North American title fight for that. Great. So and this is happening when? November 16th at 7.30 at the Portland Expo. And if anybody wants to get more information about it or how to get tickets as a website or any place where they can get more information. The Portland Boxing Club.org is our website. Tickets are on sale at Bruno's Restaurant and also at Port Ticks at the Merrill Auditorium. Great. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you Tom. Appreciate it.