History will be made Thursday, Aug 5th when fans will be treated to a seven…yes seven bout pro boxing and mma show. Never in the 26-year history of the Battle in the Ballroom at the Irvine Marriott have seven bouts been set.  Plus fans will also get three or four top amateur heavyweight bouts that begin at 6:45pm. On top of that...

We know we’ve already had some heavyweight false alarms twice in 2010 when the Battle In The Ballroom announced some great heavyweight matchups but they did not take place…..but for the Thursday August 5th show,...

With the summer starting to heat things up the Battle in the Ballroom is sure to catch fire August 5th. Four exciting Boxing bouts and two Mixed Martial Arts battles are set for an electrifying fight night. The Battle in the Ballroom is on a current two show sellout streak so we ask fight fans to purchase tickets early to ensure the best...

As has been the tradition for the last 26 years at the Irvine Marriott’s Battle In The Ballroom pro shows, when fans sense that fighters have given above and beyond what is expected of them, and fight toe-to-toe each and every round, they show their appreciation by wadding up paper money and throwing it in the ring. It is then collected...

Those who attended Saturday night’s “Melee at McDermont,” the first professional, six-bout event in Lindsay’s McDermont Field House, pretty much got their money’s worth: skilled boxing, a...

It will be first come-first serve, as only 34 tickets remain for this Thursday's Battle In The Ballroom boxing and mixed martial arts show at the Irvine Marriott.   Four pro boxing and two pro mma bouts are on...

  Under 100 tickets are left for the Battle in the Ballroom show in two weeks at the Irvine Marriott and it will be a full six bout show featuring both pro boxing and mixed martial arts! Get your tickets...

I went to my first fight in the 1980s, at the Irvine Marriott. Reagan-era yuppies coming in after work at the brokerages, still in their suits and suspenders, getting a little drunk and a little rowdy about a sport of which they knew little. Too trendy to last. I went to my second fight Thursday night, again at the Marriott. Sold out....

A sellout crowd of more than 1,400 fight fans packed the ballroom in the Irvine Marriott for another Battle in the Ballroom. Fight fans in attendance saw 5 explosive boxing bouts and 2 MMA battles. In our heavyweight fights of the night, Scott Alexander (5-0-1) went the distance with Marcus Dickerson (4-2-2) for a draw in our featured...

It will be a big night this Thursday evening at the Irvine Marriott's Battle In The Ballroom, as 14 professional fighters enter the ring to treat fight fans to a night of non-stop combative entertainment!   With...