This weekend the 29 year-old Lindenhurst native heads toward familiar territory on Long Island as she co-headlines Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing Rockin’ Fights 21 – with the IWBF Junior Middleweight crown up for grabs at The Paramount in Huntington. 24 the specific answer to the seemingly rhetorical, “What are you fighting for?” question will actually be a world title. Fifty years ago, for the young neighborhood residents who occupied that space, perhaps the answer may have involved a certain sociocultural ideology during the Yippie movement.īut for one of the building’s most-frequent modern-day inhabitants – the gym’s head trainer and undefeated pro boxer Alicia “The Empress” Napoleon (4-0, 4 KOs) – on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2015) – “What are you fighting for?” is the cutting interrogatory mantra posed by the Overthrow Boxing Club, a half year-old ultra-hipster retro boxing space that currently occupies 9 Bleecker Street in lower Manhattan, an area of New York City traditionally linked to decades of cultural and social activism.įor most who enter 9 Bleecker these days, the answer to the query posed has less to do with political demonstrations and more to do with fitness. Long Island’s Undefeated “Empress” Napoleon Set For Title Shot Saturday At The Paramountīoxing Wonder Woman seeks IWBF Junior Middleweight crown on Oct.
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