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far and away the fight of the night (your description of the shakur-valdez fight as "entertaining" was generous, dan), and the smith-vargas undercard bout got the crowd energy up and it never died. wish i'd been there!
It was always the concerns of boxing folks who thought how can we protect this sport of Boxing, from the bad influences P.E.D.s Organized crime, oh no Kinihan (bounty up) then of course celebraty boxing concern's many also. But who thought that a few little girls would ruin what was once such a powerful sport of Mens Boxing ? Well it has started over this weekend.
far and away the fight of the night (your description of the shakur-valdez fight as "entertaining" was generous, dan), and the smith-vargas undercard bout got the crowd energy up and it never died. wish i'd been there!
It was always the concerns of boxing folks who thought how can we protect this sport of Boxing, from the bad influences P.E.D.s Organized crime, oh no Kinihan (bounty up) then of course celebraty boxing concern's many also. But who thought that a few little girls would ruin what was once such a powerful sport of Mens Boxing ? Well it has started over this weekend.
For me a victory for an almost certainly clean fighter over an almost certainly dirty fighter.
Taylor deserves her homecoming fight in Dublin if there's a rematch.
Katie is 36 in July and so hopefully she retires after the rematch for the sake of her health.