Front from left, thirteen year old Kody Shankle, seventeen year old Sam Wahlen, thirteen year old Billy Wolfe, fifteen year old Riley Shankle, back from left, Dustin Stoner, Brad Regis, Lucas Adams, and Steve Mowry are training at Cubs Gym in Butler.

Seven Butler area boxers will be in action Saturday night at the Butler Cubs ASA Amateur Boxing Show at the Cubs Hall.

The show — with 16 bouts lined up — is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.

“We've got a lot of good matches and our (Cubs) fighters are straight-ahead, aggressive fighters,” Cubs boxing trainer Don Spinetti said.

Cubs fighters on the card include Allegheny Mountain Association Golden Glove champions Billy Wolfe III (22-5) and Sam Whalen (4-2). Wolfe, 13, is from Worthington while Whalen, 17, is a former Knoch football nose-guard.

Other Cubs boxers who will be in action include 17-year-old Lucas Adams (8-9), 21-year-old Dustin Stoner (4-1) and 21-year-old Mel Rodgers.

Rodgers, a Butler resident, will be making her amateur boxing debut against Caitlyn Engler of Pittsburgh. There will be two female bouts on the card as Butler resident Megan Wolferton, who trains in Wexford, takes on Jane Quinlan of Pittsburgh.

Two fighters from K.P. Peth's gym in Butler — Knoch graduate Steve Mowry and Butler resident Brad Regis — are on the card. The 6-foot-9 Mowry (3-0) will fight 6-6 Mike Shook of Tarentum.

“They will look like two basketball players in the ring,” Spinetti said.

Mowry is 4-0 as an amateur MMA fighter as well and hopes to turn pro in both sports sometime in 2015.

“He wants to become the Bo Jackson of boxing,” Cubs assistant trainer Ryan Covert, who regularly works out with Mowry, said. “Other guys have tried it, but MMA fighters don't have what it takes in boxing and boxers can't convert to MMA.

“But Steve has very unique skills. He can pull this off.”

Former world lightweight champion Paul Spadafora's nephew, Gino Spadafora, will be on the card as well. A youngster in the 60-pound division, Gino will have Spadafora in his corner Saturday night.

Some of the Butler area boxers — including Mowry — will be fighting in their own community for the first time.

“That makes a difference,” Covert said, recalling his own career. “When I fought in Pittsburgh, I seemed to get stopped. When I fought here, nobody stopped me.

“There's something about fighting in front of your family and friends ... That's what made me get up and come back (to win) after getting knocked down in the first round at Pullman Park. There really is community pride in this sport.”

Tickets for Saturday's show are $12.