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Melson Nominated for Most Inspirational of 2015!

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New York, NY (December 29, 2015) – Junior middleweight boxer and philanthropist Boyd “Rainmaker” Melson has been nominated for Most Inspirational by Ring Magazine.

Having dedicated most of his life during the last 13 years to help cure Chronic Spinal Cord Injuries, Melson’s selfless efforts have been chronicled by various media outlets. The visibility of the cause he fights for and organization he donates 100% of his fight purses to, Team Fight to Walk, has grown tremendously during the last few years.

The 2003 West Point graduate also helped organize three successful “Fighting for the Cure” galas and successfully lobbied New York’s powers that be to reinstate a bill that allocates a percentage of each moving violation towards Spinal Cord Injury research. Last summer, the 15-1-1 junior middleweight along with Dr. Wise Young, Dr. Patricia Morton and others met with Congressman Chaka Fattah at a briefing at the Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC to discuss clinical trials that could help hundreds of thousands suffering from Spinal Cord Injuries walk again. Word from Congress about the trial going forward is expected within 90 dni.

Skupni, Melson’s raised more than $350,000 for Team Fight to Walk.

»Last December the WBC honored me with their Ambassador Of Peace Award and this past July the NABF honored me with their Humanitarian Award,"Je dejal Melson, who captured the WBC USNBC title with a career best performance in May 2015. “A sport that I was forced to first partake in because of a mandatory gym class at West Point my Plebe (novinec) year along with my belief how I could use the boxing ring in order to help find a way to help people walk again has turned into this.”

»My only hope is that any human being learning of this story, especially children, internalize the following: understand your power of creating a vision, understanding what your own abilities are to achieve that vision and prepare to suffer while holding on to that vision for as long as their is air in your lungs. I believe my experience throughout this journey so far has shown again how one person can be the raindrop that creates the storm of change. What is real in our minds is real. I’m honored that Ring Magazine included me and I hope the publicity helps raise funds and awareness for Spinal Cord Injuries. Thank you to the sport I love for sharing my dream.”

To support Melson, please visit the comment section ofringtv.craveonline.com/news/407191-2015-ring-awards-finalists-for-most-inspirational or tweet @Ringmagazine. For more information about Team Fight to Walk, obiščiteTeamfighttowalk.com. Tax deductible donations can be made on the website or by texting “Walk” to 20222.

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Team Boj za Walk gostiti "Boj Za Cure" Gala oktobra 15!

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New York, NY (September 24, 2015) - WBC-USNBC junior prvak v srednji kategoriji Boyd Melson in Christan Zaccagnino, Ustanovitelji Team Boj za Walk, bo gostil tretjo letno "Boj za Cure" gala koristi organizacije Četrtek, Oktober 15 pri 6:15 pm

na Beckwith Pointe v New Rochelle, NY.

Vstopnice in sponzorske pakete "Boj za Cure" so na voljo, ki jih bo teamfighttowalk.com/gala ali kliče 914-497-5727. Vse donacije so odbitna na IRS predpisi.
New York Knicks super John Starks bo služil kot častni predsednik za ta poseben večer, in številne druge goste bo na voljo, da se družijo z imetniki vstopnic. Sedanji seznam gostov vključuje nekdanji svetovni prvak in funt za funt zvezdnik Paul Williams, Super Bowl XXV prvak Stephen Baker od New York Giants, srednji prvak Danny Jacobs, nekdanji prvaki Junior Jones in Chris Algieri skupaj z nekdanjo New York Knicks Herb Williams in John Wallace. Več gostje bodo znani v kratkem. Ta izjemen večer zabave in zavedanja vključuje koktajle & predjedi, formalna večerja, tiha dražba, blackjack tabel, živa glasba, odprt bar, DJ in gostujoči predavatelji.
V zadnjih dveh letih, Team Boj hoditi gostila uspešne svečanosti v New Yorku featuring komedija akte iz Artie Lange in Damon Rozier skupaj z čustvenih govorov Melson, Zaccagnino, Major Max Brewer, svetovno znana Dr.. Wise Young, Eric LeGrand in preživeli raka obrnil svetovni prvak boxer Danny Jacobs.
V juniju, Melson, Dr. Young in dr. Patricia Morton srečal s kongresom v Washingtonu, DC, naj predloži dokaze iz uspešnih spinalne preskušanjih Cord poškodb na Kitajskem. Kitajski poskusi videli 15 iz nje 20 bolniki ponovno možnost, da ponovno hodi in 10 Bolniki imajo mehurja in funkcijo črevesja vrnitev. To je popolnoma enak postopek, ki bi se uporabljal v Ameriki in se pričakuje uradni odgovor od FDA na sojenju, da pridejo do konca letošnjega.
Če so sojenja potekala, stroške za operacijo in terapijo je $150,000 na bolnika in 100% teh stroškov se dvigne preko javnih donacij. Sojenje bo potekalo v bolnišnici University v Newarku, NJ in bo vključena 12 bolniki. Trenutno, zvezna vlada ne ponuja finančno pomoč, čeprav je na tisoče vojakov se vračajo iz vojne z hrbtenjače.
Od trenutka, ko se je sestal na plesnem klubu v času svojega junior leto na West Point v 2002, Najbolj pomembna stvar v Melson življenju je bilo spet videti Zaccagnino sprehod. Christan zlomil vratu pri starosti 10 po potapljaški nesreči in je bila priklenjena na invalidski voziček, odkar. Pospešila prizadevanja za financiranje omenjenega sojenja, Melson je podaril 100% njegovih torbice iz 16 njegovega 17 profesionalna ekipa Team Boj za Walk, a 501(c)(3) z enim od svojih torbice gredo prijatelju iz otroštva, katere sin je bil boj z rakom na možganih. Med obema galas in njegovih strokovnih Deluje, Melson je pomagal dvigniti več kot $330,000.
»Smo blizu, kot kdajkoli prej, da bi bistveno razliko v Ameriki,"Je dejal Melson. "Team Boj za Walk je bilo delo zelo težko za to in naše fundraising prizadevanja so bila nonstop. Vedno, tam je dolga pot, čeprav smo dobili odobritev FDA. Naši zadnji dve galas so bili izjemno, in smo z namenom, da v letošnjem letu povečati še več denarja za vzrok. Potrebujemo pomoč od vsakogar tam. Moramo se zbuditi in živeti vsak dan z dejstvom, da si delimo ta planet vodijo našo aktivno zavest. Naši galas so čustveno preselili številne udeležence, ki so poslušali zgodbe in bojev od tistih, ki trpijo zaradi kroničnih poškodb hrbtenjače, ki se ne more imeti operacijo v Ameriki, ki bi jim omogočila, da bi spet hodila. Če ne morete udeležiti Gala, Prosimo, razmislite o darovanju za Teamfighttowalk.com. Vsak dolar naredi razliko!”