Niagara's Premier Charity Boxing Event
2020 event is cancelled
Niagara's Premier Charity Boxing Event
2020 event is cancelled
Pearl Gloves is Niagara's premier night out - a charity boxing event featuring everyday folk training as fighters, stretching themselves to their limits and getting punched in the face (for a good cause) in front of hundreds of their closest friends, family, community members and business associates.
The annual event is an absolute 'must do', bringing you to a Las Vegas fight night and back without the plane. Having raised over $400,000 in it's first 5 years, the event's proceeds benefit the MS Society (Niagara Peninsula Chapter of Hope), Hotel Dieu Shaver, and Power Cord in Niagara's Fight Against MS.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system. The average age range for those diagnosed is 15-40. MS is also three times more likely to occur in women than men. MS attacks myelin, which is the insulating cover of the central nervous system. Messages to and from the brain are slowed or blocked. This can lead to problems in seeing or speaking, extreme fatigue, loss of balance, weakness, numbness or loss of coordination.
An estimated 100,000 Canadians are living with MS. While it is most often diagnosed in young adults, we know that it can affect younger children and older adults. MS is unpredictable and its effects can be physical, emotional and financial. Currently there is no cure but each day, researchers are learning more about what causes MS and are zeroing in on ways to prevent it.
201,201.18 Raised
$144,445 Raised
$110,000 Raised
$66,000 Raised
$45,000 Raised
$27,000 Raised
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Pearl Gloves was founded on supporting Niagara’s Fight Against MS.
We’ve trained every year to put on the best night out in Niagara, stopping at nothing, keeping our hands up and our chin down, grinding day in and day out, and raising as much money as we can to better the lives of the members in our community living with MS.
This year, our collective world has changed. The global community is now staring across the ring at a new opponent. As an organization, we have a duty to uphold the safety of our team, partners, competitors, sponsors, guests and supporters.
We have waited as long as possible, and the time has come to make the decision. Our mission is to improve the lives of community members whose health is compromised, and the purpose of our cause is just too great to gamble on. It is with this mindset that we have chosen to cancel the 2020 Pearl Gloves Charity Boxing Event.
The pandemic has affected us all, and world events have enlightened us greater. Only as a healthy community built on respect and love, can we stand together to fight another day.
No Grit. No Pearl.