Knockout Sports Entertainment

MIGHTY MIKE EVANS
C.E.O.

A natural born leader from Ford Heights, Illinois, “Mighty” Mike Evans began as an amateur wrestler. From Bloom High School he led his wrestling team to 1st place in the National Junior Competition the first time in the school’s history. Evans himself placed 1st in Greco Roman and Freestyle wrestling competitions.

Mr. Evans began with strong determination which he presents to all facets of his life. Today, he is a global boxing champion, an actor, a local hero, and much more.

Mr. Evans’ ability for combat sport expanded and grew into the Boxing arena. In 1984, he became the Mid-west Regional Heavyweight Champion. He pursued onward to become the IBF Inter-Continental Champion in 1991 and in 2002 he rose globally in the Global Boxing Federation as the Heavy-weight Champion.

He became an international sensation. He built connections with the boxing world as well as the acting industry. Mr. Evans has performed in the film, City Heat and has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1984.

In 2006 the Evans and Patel team was born and Knockout Sports Entertainment became their partnership.

Today Michael Evans works as a local hero and professional business man in his community. He trains youth boxers and is the co-president of the Knockout Sports Foundation which serves the amateur boxing community world wide.

NILAM PATEL
PRESIDENT

In 1993, Nilam Patel arrived in the United States from India at the age of 15. In 2007, became the world’s first Indian female boxing promoter. Mrs. Patel grew up in a small town in India called Chitali, located four hours from Bombay. At 15 years of age, she moved to Niles, IL to live with her uncle. She graduated from Main East High School in Park Ridge, IL and earned her associates degree at Robert Morris College.

She rose to become a successful business woman who owned and operated an established hotel in South Holland, IL. At the South Holland Inn, Mrs. Patel executed the day to day operations and connected with the constant stream of diverse guests. One of these guests was Mr. “Mighty” Mike Evans. Through a vision of strength, unity, and drive towards a common goal, Mrs. Patel and Mr. Evans teamed up to build an organization that would give back to their shared community in the south suburbs of Chicago and globally.

In 2007, Mrs. Patel became the world’s first Indian female professional Boxing Promoter and Manager of Knockout Sports Entertainment Inc. Through her accomplishments promoting professional boxing events in Illinois, which held a total of 1,500 attendees, she rose to stand among many prominent boxing promoters, including, Don King. Mrs. Patel established herself as a world class boxing promoter.

The world of boxing accepted Mrs. Patel as their one of their own. She has what it takes to make any outstanding vision a reality. Strengthening and expansion are her goals through a vision of hope and faith. She focuses on self confidence and believes that is the greatest motivator and creator to achieving the highest accomplishments.

JOHN BRANKLINE
LIMITED PARTNER / INVESTOR LIAISON

This author brings twenty nine years combined experience in the financial arena. He is a seasoned professional who has helped many corporations and individuals by providing a wide variety of financial consultation and accounting management direction.

After an honorable discharge from the military service, he was hired by a fortune 200 company and placed on the National Transition Team which was dispatched to different locations throughout the country when the corporation was in the process of acquiring a new company or spinning off an existing entity. There he helped advise his team members of results from accounting investigations for asset allocation and departmental profitability. This was a very busy team in the eighties.

Since then John Brankline has participated with individuals on a personal level to begin a start-up company or advance an existing company with horizontal integration and limited vertical integration while always complying with the Generally Accepted Accounting Practices and Procedures for professionals. Annually keeps up with the changing tax code provided by the Internal Revenue Service.

He serves on the Board of Directors for several companies and has functioned as C.F.O. of several other companies. Most recently, he is advising clients with financial organization tools to protect assets and minimize tax liabilities.

He has an infrastructure ready to implement financial strategies necessary to protect his clients from lawsuits and liens as well as establishing individual and corporate pension plans and trusts.

Investors are happy to participate in funding companies with John Brankline providing the financial protection for companies to succeed and repay their investors handsomely.

Scott Holzmann
Matchmaker / Events Coordinator

Scott Tolzmann has been involved in the sport of boxing for over 20 years, both as an amateur combatant, as well as a coach. He formerly served as the Executive Director and head trainer/coach at Twin Cities Boxing, a nonprofit amateur boxing program that served the at-risk population in North Minneapolis. He liaised with several local communities and organizations including the Hennepin County Juvenile probation, Police Activities League, YMCA Nellie Stone Beacon Center, Minnesota Transition School, and several others to help keep youth and young adults off the streets and away from gang violence, drugs, and chemical/substance abuse. He is presently the head trainer/coach of the Upper Midwest Golden Gloves Boxing Gym in Columbia Heights, MN.

Scott's boxing experience includes working as an assistant coach for the Ugandan Amateur Boxing Federation, in which he traveled to Kenya, South Africa, and Namibia, Africa to prepare and present local professional boxing prospect, Ismail Muwendo, for the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Olympic qualifier. He has also traveled and trained at many amateur boxing gyms and programs around the world including those in Thailand, Laos, Uganda, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Over the years, Scott has acted in the capacity of professional boxing matchmaker, marketing specialist, and event coordinator for several high profile promotional companies. He also trained and managed Mohammed “African Assassin” Kayongo to the WBF Intercontinental Title.

Scott graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Legal Studies from the University of Great Falls Montana with honors, Associates of Arts from Ridgewater College in law enforcement with a 4.0 GPA. In July 2011, he surpassed the militia-style Law Enforcement SKILLS training program from Alexandria Technical College, in which I was awarded the Top Physical Fitness Award in his class (99.14%).

“I truly believe in the sport of boxing and its direct correlation to clean living. The sport of boxing is inherently based on the concept of accountability, which if embraced responsibly, stems success, opportunity, and productivity.

Boxing is a sport that is not for everyone, but it is a sport that gives anybody the opportunity to participate without having to be scouted out or picked for the team. Boxing allows individualism, you can walk in and be whoever you want to become. Boxing is a type of sport that doesn't teach others to be violent or "how to be a bully." Instead, it is a sport that provides self-confidence, self-esteem, respect, modesty, and versatility - keeping kids off the streets and from crime and drugs. Boxing is a sport that embraces at risk youth because it becomes their physical and/or mental outlet (relief) in life (a safe haven from dysfunctional surroundings). At risk youth very often don’t fit in the “box” of being an orthodox adolescent, thus, they don’t always fit in well in the conventional team sport. I believe boxing can be and often is the method needed to teach youth moral conduct, technique, discipline, skills, self-esteem, and how to control emotions.”