A live boxing show is coming to Johnstown this weekend with both professional and amateur fighters. (WJAC)
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) A live boxing show is coming to Johnstown this weekend with both professional and amateur fighters.
It's being called the Bulldog Brawl.
Tim, most of these boxers are from Kastle Boxing, a gym in Johnstown.
For some, it's a way to blow off steam, and for others, they're hoping to make boxing a career.
It takes a lot of training to get ready for the Bulldog Brawl.
Once that bell rings, the competition is on.
For Gabrielle Kull, it's not just a guy's sport.
"Being able to know that you can defend yourself,” Kull said. “Just walking in a room and feeling equal to whoever is across from you."
Saturday's matchup will be her first official fight, and her coach is her father, Brock Kull.
"I got into it because of my dad. I saw the passion that he had for it and just the different things that brought him the discipline, the dedication, hard work, and I wanted to see what it was all about," Gabrielle Kull said.
Brock Kull is the head boxing coach at Kastle Boxing. Among his boxers is light heavyweight Orlando Ellis, who is hoping to go pro.
"Well, I always wanted to be a professional boxer, ever since I was younger,” Ellis said. “I just never had time. I was always in football and I was always in school, so now all I do is work."
"I won regionals for 2018 and then I fought in the state championships Saturday," Ellis said.
"Lost just last weekend to a really good Philly fighter who, we feel, he should have beat, and we'll be back,” Brock Kull said. "But this coming Saturday, he's going to get a little bit of vengeance and he's going to prove why he deserves to be in there."
Another member of the team is only 11 years old.
"My dad's a professional MMA fighter and I wanted to box and my dad found out you could box, like, at 10 years old and that's how I got into boxing," Layton Munyon said.
Munyon won the championship in the Golden Gloves regionals. On Saturday, he'll be competing again.
"There's nothing better than being able to show the hard work in the ring when people actually come to see, and people that enjoy the sport and understand the sport can watch the technicality behind it but also, the same thing, see the passion between two people in that ring that are working together," Brock Kull said.
There will be six to eight amateur bouts, as well as three professional boxers.
"We have female boxers. We have young kids, as you saw with Layton,” Brock Kull said. “We have heavyweights. We have brand-new debut fighters and we have seasoned fighters."
"It's great to be able to fight in front of our family, our friends, to showcase how much we work and just bringing it home and being able to kind of give back to our gym too,” Gabrielle Kull said.
The event is May 5. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the first fight starts at 7 p.m.
Tickets are on sale now.
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