From Businessweek: “….The event at the Indian Recreation
Club in Happy Valley, organized by IronMonger Events Ltd., seeks to raise HK$1
million ($129,022) for Operation Smile, which funds surgery for children with
facial deformities, and Operation Breakthrough, which combats crime and
juvenile delinquency in low-income and immigrant communities. Standard tables
of 12 cost HK$24,000 with the ringside version pulling in HK$50,000.
“Steve Taw, the oldest competitor at age 53 in the history
of Hong Kong’s sixth annual Hedge Fund Fight Nite, competed four years after
his son’s victory in the same charity event.
“I’m the only one ever following in his son’s footsteps,”
said the white-haired Taw, known in the ring as “The Wizard of Wanchai” after
the commercial area of bars and clubs made popular in “The World of Suzie
Wong,” the 1960 William Holden movie, before the event.
“His son Thomas, 27, who sports the same square jawline and
broad wry smile, works in electronic trading at Macquarie Group Ltd. He said
gets more nervous watching his father, a director at South Ocean Management
Ltd., fight than he does stepping into the ring himself. The senior Taw said
before the event that while he’s “in it to win it,” his focus will be on
putting on a good show when facing off against Blair “The Bear” Crichton, an
associate vice president in business development at HSBC……..
“….Andrea “Glynn-sanity” Glynn, 28, and Danielle “Steely”
Midalia, 30, will face off in the only women’s bout of the evening. They are
the final two of 10 women who tried out for the event this spring….
Read all about it at http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-24/hedge-fund-boxers-tame-animal-instincts-in-hong-kong-fight-night
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