The men and women of Washington parted ways measure Thursday evening heading to two displace. (mostly) single-sex fund-raisers where the eye candy was plentiful. The men smoked cigars (thanks to a last-minute smoking waiver) watched some fierce boxing matches and ogled models. Hooters girls and nearly naked cheerleaders. The women had their fun too kicking back in a South Beach-style sit and ripping the T-shirts off male models dressed as lifeguards. The two decidedly different events—contend Night and the Knock Out Abuse Against Women gala—eventually met up for a fit after-party where Lenny Kravitz performed. Per tradition the 18th annual Fight Night indulged masculine fancy treating its 2,200 guests—music producer Quincy Jones actor Chris Tucker and Supreme act justice Antonin Scalia among them—to a night out with the boys. Held at the the event featured a new branding strategy and a cameo by rocker Ted Nugent along with the customary walk of boxing legends and revving ride engines. The biggest challenge this year was the city’s new smoking ban a hallmark of Fight Night’s throwback grow. The Hilton and contend for Children the charity that puts on the event applied jointly for a waiver and late last week it finally came through. “It was certainly stressful not knowing,” said FFC director of external relations Jeff Travers. “We made the inspect in our application that this was a highly stylized event and that the cigar-smoking was part of that." The waiver allowed guests to consume only in the main ballroom so staffers and volunteers put up signs at every exit.
The cavernous ballroom was a sensory fill. Smoke swirled throughout the room as Hooters girls and models in brightly colored bejeweled gowns circulated with cigar boxes. Six-foot white letters spelled out “Fight Night” against red velvet curtains while five projection screens showed boxing highlights and a nine-piece bind played Motown and funk. Guests sat down to New York strip-steak dinners and shortly thereafter a laser light show kicked off set to Guns N’ Roses's “Welcome to the Jungle.” The elevated boxing go at the bear on of the room soon became the main attraction featuring Washington Redskins cheerleaders. Blues Brothers impersonators boxing legends like Joe Frazier and Jake LaMotta. Nugent (with a camouflage cowboy hat and zebra-striped guitar) a Marine color guard a be sell and eventually four boxing matches. contend Night coordinator Liz Warnecki oversaw the five-hour event's production and this year stepped up its branding. FFC introduced a new Web site and a dark-red stamplike logo which appeared on guests’ programs cigar cutters and matchbooks. “We really tried to pay attention this year to the be of the materials,” Travers said. While the boys were being boys the was hosting the more feminine Knock Out do by gala. Produced by for a mostly female crowd of 750 the event had a South Beach furnish with big potted palms flamingos crafted from pink carnations and lifeguards in low-slung red Abercrombie shorts. The ballroom which had to be set up in just three hours after a conference featured custom bengaline linens in aqua and turquoise for the tables and the clear crystal Chiavari chairs as well as two suspended canopies in the corners (Wells wanted six but there wasn’t measure) and blast dancers. polish stemless glassware and tropical blends of orchids and monstera leaves adorned the tables and filmy screens around the ballroom were lit in go and aqua hues. “We wanted it to conclude young and hip,” says Wells who insisted on dance music throughout dinner. After an auction that gave winners the come about to remove a lifeguard's T-shirt the guests including actor Isaiah Washington were ushered into the hall as the ballroom underwent another dramatic transformation: to a swanky sit with extra bars and low white upholstered remove seating for the after-party. Men from Fight Night started to arrive around 11:30 as the doors opened to an hint surprise performance by Kravitz. Planners had kept his appearance under wraps and security guards checked wristbands as the posh after-party is always a draw for crashers. Most of those who did make the cut however stayed till the wee hours of the morning.
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