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MEXICAN HEAVYWEIGHT ANDY RUIZ TAKES TIME OUT TO SUPPORT CHARITABLE FOOD-RESCUE ORGANIZATION FORGOTTEN HARVEST

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Mexican heavyweight Andy "The Destroyer from Mexicali" Ruiz took time out of his preparations to face Josh "Dempsey" Gormley this weekend to give props to Forgotten Harvest, one of the nation's largest food rescue organizations.

WBO #5, IBF #5, and WBC #7 Ruiz (27-0, 18 KOs) and Gormley (22-4, 21 KOs) will meet in the 10-round main event of the next Salita Promotions "Detroit Brawl" this Saturday, July 16, at the historic Masonic Temple in Downtown Detroit.

A cause that is deeply important to event promoter Dmitriy Salita, his Salita Promotions will be donating five charitable meals for each general admission and ten charitable meals for every VIP ticket purchased for the event to Forgotten Harvest.

Sponsored by Greektown Casino and Thomas Magee's Sporting House Whiskey Bar, tickets for "Detroit Brawl" will be priced at VIP $123, Box Seats $100, Ringside $93, Reserved $63 and $38, and Balcony $28, and are available at all Ticketmaster outlets and Tickmaster.com.

Based in Oak Park, Michigan, Forgotten Harvest was formed in 1990 to relieve hunger and prevent food waste throughout the metro Detroit area. Forgotten Harvest "rescued" over 40 million pounds of food last year by collecting surplus prepared and perishable food from over 800 locations, including grocery stores, fruit and vegetable markets, restaurants, caterers, dairies, farmers, wholesale food distributors and other Health Department-approved sources.

This donated food, which would otherwise go to waste, is delivered free of-charge to 280 emergency food providers in the metro Detroit area. Forgotten Harvest has been ranked as a four-star charity by Charity Navigator for nine consecutive years.

Learn more about Forgotten Harvest and how to help drive hunger from our community at www.forgottenharvest.org.

Scheduled in support of the main event that night will be Giorgi Gelashvili (4-0, 2 KOs) of Brooklyn via Georgia facing comebacking veteran Eric Hall (8-9-1, 4 KOs) of Durand, Michigan in a super lightweight six-rounder.

Also, Serdar Hudayberdiyev (2-0, 2 KOs) of Turkmenabat, Turkmenistan, will face fellow undefeated fighter Steven Andrade (3-0, 2 KOs) of Atlanta, Georgia in a welterweight four-rounder.

The opponent for the long-awaited pro debut of Dearborn, Michigan's "Southpaw Prince" Gheith Karim, a three-time national amateur champion, will be two-fight welterweight scrapper Dean Walsh Jr. of Monroe, Michigan.

Detroit prospect Demetrius Banks (7-0, 4 KOs) is scheduled for a six-round cruiserweight match-up against Niagara Falls, New York's Eric George (4-11).

Promising Detroit bantamweight Jarico O'Quinn (1-0, 1 KO), a recent Salita Promotions signee, will take on Sergio Aguilar (0-3) of Miami Beach, Florida, in a four-round bout; super bantamweight Zach Shamoun (3-0-1, 3 KOs) of Royal Oak, Michigan, will face also-unbeaten Jose Elizondo (1-0) of San Antonio, Texas; and so-far perfect undefeated cruiserweight Clarence Dubose (3-0, 3 KOs) of Detroit will look to keep his KO streak intact against Karinn Davis (2-6, 2 KOs) of Jackson, Michigan.

Detroit middleweight Dorell Van Horn Jr. (9-0, 6 KOs) will face Rapid City, South Dakota's Ryan Soft (3-5-1, 1 KO) in a six-rounder.




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