Wall Street pros will step out of the trading ring and into the boxing ring tonight for charity. Sixteen of Wall Street’s finest, all men, will duke it out at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. Judges for the brawls include former heavyweight champions Larry Holmes and Lennox Lewis……
When Josh “The Matrix” Weintraub
[pictured at left] of Bear Stearns Cos. steps into the boxing ring tonight, he
will have 130 supporters in his corner as he fights Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s
Shane “Second Coming” Kinahan in a charity match.
Weintraub and Kinahan are two of the 16
Wall Street professionals — all men — who have trained since August to beat
each other up in a series of three-round bouts. Almost 800 friends, family,
colleagues and guests paid as much as $800 apiece to watch and dine on beef
tenderloin and Guinness ice cream.
The first Extell Wall Street Boxing Charity
Championship will raise money for organizations including the Prostate Cancer
Foundation and Hedge Funds Care, a New York-based group that combats child
abuse. Tuesday’s Children, which helps families of Sept. 11 victims, and Say Yes
to Education, which aids inner- city school kids, also will benefit from
tonight’s black-tie gala at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan.
“It seemed a great way to contribute my
time and energy to help the community and at the same time do something I like
to do,” said Weintraub, 37. The mortgage bond trader, who sold tickets to
friends and colleagues, is raising money for the Valerie Fund, an organization
that aids children with cancer. “The night will be full out.”
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