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Marianne Marston

15th April 2008 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



LIKE A PHOENIX RISING FROM THE ASHES OF SMOKIN' JOE'S, ENGLISH FEATHERWEIGHT MARIANNE MARSTON IS BACK.



English Featherweight Marianne Marston felt her 'American dream' was over after the sudden closure of Smokin' Joe Frazier's Gym at the end of March 2008, but just 10 days later, as she was seriously considering either returning to London or relocating to Los Angeles to train at Freddie Roach's Wild Card Gym, a friend suggested she try-out for Percy (Buster) Custus at The James Shuler Memorial Gym in West Philadelphia.

She did and was invited back the following day to meet former IBF Light Middleweight World Champion Robert 'Bam Bam' Hines with a view to him co-training Marianne along with Buster himself.

After just a day of working together Robert commented "Marianne's good, she's tough, skilled and packs plenty of power, you can see she's had good trainers, they taught her to box. Now I'll teach her the art of boxing and she'll be unstopable"

It is clear that Marianne feels that she has not only found a new home in the James Shuler Memorial Gym but also World-Class coaches that can take her to new levels of fitness and heightened ring skills - as she says "I never thought I would say this as I really loved being trained by Joe & Marvis Frazier and Val Colbert at Smokin' Joe Frazier's Gym but them closing down may have done me a favour. If they hadn't I wouldn't have met Robert whose coaching is truly perfect for me. Not just his training techniques and conditioning regime, but his total commitment to both me and my boxing career. Like myself he's a southpaw, so demonstrating techniques useful to me comes naturally to him."

It looks like Marianne's dream is right back on track as Robert has said she will be ready for her professional debut this summer as originally planned.



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Photo opportunity: 12.30pm-2.30pm Wednesday 16th April 2008 at The James Shuler Memorial Gym, 750 Brooklyn Street, Philadelphia PA 19104



There will be an opportunity for photographs or filming during Marianne's daily training session and between 2.30pm-3pm interviews can also be arranged with both Marianne Marston and Robert Hines.



Marianne's updated Press Pack, which includes her biography and a brief information/background page on Robert 'Bam Bam' Hines etc., is available for download in PDF format at:

http://www.mariannemarston.com/MariannePressPackApril08.pdf



A selection of high resolution photographs are available for download at:

http://www.mariannemarston.com/MediaCentre.html



To arrange interviews/photographs with Marianne Marston and/or Robert 'Bam Bam' Hines and Percy (Buster) Custus please contact:



Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro

The James Shuler Memorial Gym, Philadelphia PA, USA



Tel: (Gym) 1 215 662 5239 - (Rio Cell) 1 215 459 5060



E.Mail (Rio): Rio@justlisten2this.com

E.Mail (Marianne): info@mariannemarston.com



Website:

www.mariannemarston.com