Pro Boxing Returning to Valley : Fights: Warner Center Marriott will stage six-bout card on Nov. 2. If successful, monthly shows could follow.

WOODLAND HILLS — Professional boxing will return to the San Fernando Valley next month by terms of an agreement announced Thursday between promoter Peter Broudy and the Warner Center Marriott.

Welterweights P.J. Goossen and former contender Irish Pat Lawler headline a six-bout card scheduled for Nov. 2 in the hotel’s 1,000-seat Grand Ballroom.

Goossen, who is 13-0 with 12 knockouts, is a nephew of Dan Goossen, one of the founders of the now-defunct Ten Goose Boxing Club of Van Nuys, which staged monthly professional fights at the Country Club in Reseda for more than a decade.

Those shows became less frequent in the spring of 1993, and were halted in April when Dan Goossen was hired as executive vice president of Top Rank Boxing.

“An awful lot of people have asked me about bringing boxing back to the Valley,” Broudy said. “I’m happy to say that’s exactly what we’ve done.”

Broudy, the president of Celebrity Boxing, regularly promotes cards at the Hollywood Palladium, Huntington Park Casino and several Indian reservations. He also has staged bouts at the Country Club.

Next month’s card will mark the Warner Center Marriott’s initial foray into boxing. The Irvine Marriott, near John Wayne Airport in Orange County, has profitably hosted monthly cards for almost a decade.

Brian Nadley, a hotel administrator, said Warner Center officials talked to their counterparts in Irvine extensively and also checked Broudy’s other references before signing an agreement.

“They all have good things to say about Peter and, the bottom line, it’s made money, and from the hotel’s standpoint, that’s what we’re looking for,” Nadley said. “We’re hoping this is a win-win situation.”

The hotel can exercise an option to host boxing events on a monthly basis if the first show goes well, Broudy said.

In Ten Goose’s tenure at the Country Club, boxing fans were treated to the likes of former bantamweight title contender Frankie Duarte, International Boxing Federation middleweight champion Michael Nunn, and the Ruelas brothers--Gabriel, the top contender in the World Boxing Council’s junior lightweight division, and Rafael, the International Boxing Federation lightweight champion.

There were also more than a fair share of under-card slugs, several of whom inadvertently entertained by comedy.

Most of the shows packed the 900-seat facility with a odd mixture of crusty beer-guzzlers, young businessmen, women and television and film stars.

“When you have boxing around, who knows who might show up,” Nadley said.

Broudy said he has a matchmaker working to fill out the five-bout undercard for Nov. 2.

Heavyweight Jimmy Mullins (6-0), a former kick-boxing champion from Simi Valley, is expected to be included.