BOXING IN LAUGHLIN

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com


THERE WAS.....BOXING....FRIDAY IN LAUGHLIN NEVADA...


EXCELLENT.


ESPN2 RAN ITS FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS CARD FROM THE EDGEWATER CASINO PROPERTY AND IT WAS A MAJOR SUCCESS.


E2 RUNNING A TOURNAMENT FOR FOUR DIVISIONS ...THIS FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS...135 POUNDERS.....FOUR 6 ROUND BOUTS....ALL GOOD.


MAMMOUTH UNDERTAKING TO PUT A RUSSIAN...A SPAINARD....A GHANAN...2 MEXICANS AND 3 AMERICANS IN THE MATCHES....


BANNER PROMOTIONS WITH PROMOTER ART PUELLO PUTTING ON THE SHOW AND A GOOD JOB OF IT WITH THE EDGEWATER AND ESPN STAFFS.


I WATCHED THE MATCHES AT HOME ON REPLAY AND AT THE ARENA....COMPETITIVE AND EXCITING....AND WITH THE 6 ROUND FLOORMAT THEY HELD THE BOXERS IN THE RING FOR A POSSIBLE 7THE ROUND IF THE SCODRES WERE EVEN......THEY WERE...... FIRST FIGHT AND THEN A DECISION......IF STILL EVEN ESPN VIEWERS WOULD SCORE THE FIGHT...WOW...WHAT A NOVEL IDEA....FIGHTING AN ODD NUMBER OF ROUNDS WOULD HAVE SOLVED THIS DILEMA....I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY THEY FOUGHT 12 ROUNDERS.


THE DAMN THING DELAYED BY COLLEGE BASKETBALL WHICH CAN ALWAYS BE AN ISSUE..BUT OVERALL GREAT ENTERTAINMENT AND THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED.


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