Stadtwerke Boxing Cup on March 1 at the Sportfabrik
24.02.2025 – Boxclub Nordend Offenbach e.V. invites you to this year's Stadtwerke Offenbach Boxing Cup. At the Boxing Night on Saturday, March 1, women and men will step into the ring. The tournament will take place at the Stadtwerke Offenbach Sportfabrik in Bürgel, Mainzer Ring 150. The fights start at 8 pm.
Top international boxers from Spain and Poland are expected to take part. A women's club from Spain and a Polish team from Gliwice will be competing against a selection from the Nordend Boxing Club. The highlight of the evening is the sparring show fight between boxer Sarah "Babyface" Bormann, world champion in the minimum weight and half-flyweight categories, from Bad Soden against the reigning Spanish European champion Isabel Rivero from Valladolid.
A total of ten fights are planned. Admission is at 7 p.m., tickets are available at the box office at a price of 20 euros for adults, young people pay 10 euros.
Sport and prospects through social work belong together
Trainer and organizer Bernd Hackfort is delighted that Box-Gym-Hanau-Kesselstadt will be taking part. The club has a similar history to Boxclub Nordend. It was founded 23 years ago as a social project in the Protestant community. Two young boxers from Hanau will fill out the opposing team and three Bambinis will spar against three Bambinis from Boxclub Nordend.
The Nordend Boxing Club was founded in 2003 in the Nordend Youth Center. Around 100 boxers train at the boxing club, 16 of whom belong to the performance group and train every day. All the others are active in the bambini, youth and hobby boxing groups and share the same passion. Hackfort demands the utmost discipline and constant attendance during training. In return, however, everyone who comes to him at the boxing club receives help and support beyond training. Hackfort takes care of them and, together with his team, helps them to find a training place and provides support when things "aren't going so well".
Since he founded the boxing club together with social worker Wolfgang Malik, who has been president of the club for many years, sport and prospects through social work have always gone hand in hand. Clear rules apply in the boxing club and in the ring, and anyone who doesn't abide by them has to leave. This is flanked by compulsory homework help for those with poor grades. "If you want to box, you have to perform," says Hackfort. "For us, it's not about street cred, but about respect and responsibility." With this approach, the Nordend Boxing Club has made a name for itself far beyond the city limits and has already won a number of awards as a violence prevention and integration project.
Stadtwerke supports the idea of boxing as a prevention and integration project
This social commitment is also the reason why Stadtwerke has supported the club, which trains in the "Rockywood", as its main sponsor with €15,000 per year since it was founded in 2003. "As an association rooted in Offenbach that assumes social responsibility, the boxing club fulfills our sponsorship guidelines in an exemplary manner," says Stadtwerke Managing Director Peter Walther. "We therefore also support the idea of offering boxing in our city as a prevention and integration project in the long term." The partnership with Stadtwerke is extremely valuable for Hackfort: "The popular Stadtwerke Boxing Cup in particular has given us access to young people and networks that we wouldn't otherwise have. Lord Mayor Dr. Felix Schwenke explains: "Through their donation and sponsorship activities, our municipal utilities return part of their profits to the city's society. We promote the most diverse aspects of public life and thus assume joint responsibility for the people of Offenbach - far beyond the provision of services of general interest."