QUOTE OF THE DAY

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."

- Revelations 6:8

COY LaHOOD: Do you imbibe, Reverend?

PREACHER: Only after nine in the morning.

ONE OF THE BEST WESTERNS EVER!

QUOTE OF THE DAY

TWO FOR TUESDAY

"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. "


"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."


- Jimi Hendrix STILL THE BEST SLINGER EVER!

A CHINAMAN AND THE GREEK GO BOXING BOINGO BONZO - ROUND 2






YES INDEED IT IS ROUND TWO, IT WAS SO NICE THAT WE HAD TO DO IT TWICE. AFTER OUR FIRST BOXING BONANZA ON MARCH 22 , AS POSTED RIGHT HERE ON THE FIRST OF MAY.
WE WERE DOUBLY PSYCHED TO GO TO FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS ON ESPN2 @


FRIDAY MORNING THE GREEK WAS SO THRILLED HE PUT ON HIS SPECIAL BOOTS AND WAS DANCING WITH JOY. THE CHINAMAN GOT SO EXCITED HE HAD TO SIT DOWN AND HAVE A SMOKE. BUT FIRST WE HAD SOME OF THE BUIZINESS TO TAKE CARE OF. WE HAD TO VISIT A CUSTOMER AND HAVE LUNCH IN NEW JERSEY. MY BASIC DISLIKE OF GOING TO NEW JERSEY IS THAT THE TRAFFIC THERE SUCKS AND THE FACT THAT YOU CANNOT MAKE A LEFT HANDED TURN WHILE DRIVING ANYWHERE!!! THE GOOD THING WAS THAT AFTER A BRIEF OFFICE MEETING WE WENT TO LUNCH AT BARELI'S RESTAURANT WHICH HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO EAT IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. THEY HAVE ITALIAN / CONTINENTAL FOOD BUT SINCE THE FOOD IS SO GOOD YOU KNOW THE PLACE IS OWNED & RUN BY GREEKS! AFTER OUR PLEASANT & FILLING LUNCH WE WERE OFF TO FIGHT THE TRAFFIC TO GET TO THE FIGHTS.....FOUR HOURS LATER!!!!



HERE WE ARE AT MY FAVORITE HOTEL/RESORT/CASINO IN CT, THE GREAT MOHEGAN SUN. THE FIGHT WAS AT FOXWOODS, BUT THEY HAD NO AVAILABLE ROOMS. MOHEGAN SUN WAS ONLY TO HAPPEN TO GIVE US TWO ROOMS AND ONE ROOM WAS FREE! AFTER A QUICK CHECK IN AND ROOM VISIT IT WAS OFF TO MY FAVE BIG BUBBAS BBQ FOR A BITE TO EAT. I HAD SOME STEAK MEATY CHILI AND MY BUDDY HAD THE ULTIMATE DAWGS (2 HOT DOGS LOADED WITH CHILI, CHEESE BACON & STUFF). DAMN GOOD AS WE SAY. WITH FUEL IN OUR TANKS WE WERE READY. WE WENT TO GET THE CAR AND OFF WE WENT. TWENTY MINUTES LATER WE ARRIVED AT FOXWOODS. AFTER BALLET PARKING, WE SET OFF FOR THE LONG LONG WALK TO THE FOX ARENA, FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS WITH TEDDY ATLAS AND A SOLD OUT VENUE! WOO HOO!!

THERE WAS SOME PRETTY GOOD BOUTS SCHEDULED BY JOE DEGUARDIA'S STAR BOXING. LETS GET TO THE FIGHTS.MAIN EVENT FEATURED WELTERWEIGHTS DELVIN "DOMINICAN STYLE" RODRIGUEZ VS JESSE "FELIZ NAVIDAD" FELICIANO. I

LOCAL RODRIGUEZ WAS HEAVILY FAVORED, BUT FELICIANO CAME TO FIGHT. IN A VERY EXCITING BATTLE, DELVIN HIT JESSE WITH SOME MONSTER SHOTS AND EASILY TOOK THE FIRST FOUR ROUNDS. JESSE NOT ONLY HAD SOME TOUGH CHIN BUT ALOT OF HEART AND START CONNECTING WITH SOME HARD SHOTS BY THE END OF THE FIFTH. BY THE 8TH ROUND JESSE NAILED DELVIN WITH A VICIOUS RIGHT AND THEN FINISHED HIM OFF TKO STYLE. A GREAT FIGHT WITH ALL THE FANS ON THEIR FEET CHEERING. IN THE WELTERWEIGHT CO-FEATURE SAID "SWAMI" QUALI PUT A HURTING ON IRVING " CORNED BEEF" GARCIA AND DESTROYED HIM WITH A TKO IN THE SECOND ROUND.



THE EARLIER BOUTS WERE ALSO FUN AND FEATURED A TALL LANKY JR WELTERWEIGHT NAMED RAY ROBINSON WINNING A FOUR ROUNDER. IT WAS ALL DAMN GOOD FUN. THE GUYS THAT WERE SITTING AROUND US ALSO ENJOYED THE FIGHT NIGHT AND WE ALL HAD A GOOD TIME CHATTING AWAY ABOUT EVERYTHING FROM BOXING TO FISHING? YEAH FISHING! SOME HOW THE CHINAMAN AND THIS RETIRED GUY GOT INTO A DEEP DISCOURSE ABOUT BIG TIME SPORT FISHING. OF COURSE THIS WAS IN BETWEEN ROUNDS! FOR A GOOD RECAP OF THE FIGHTS CHECK OUT THE BOXING TIMES. THEY ARE MUCH BETTER BOXING WRITERS. ALSO FULL DISCLOSURE; I JUST MADE UP THESE BOXERS NICKNAMES!


ANYWAYS IT WAS TIME TO GET BACK TO THE HOTEL. THE CHINAMAN HAD SOME SHOPPING TO DO AND I LEFT HIM HAPPY PERUSING THE SHOPS AT MOHEGAN SUN AND I WAS FEELING FULL AND FLUSH. I WANTED TO STAY THAT WAY. I DID NOT DO ANY GAMBLING. I JUST WENT TO MY ROOM AND PASSED OUT DREAMING ABOUT MY LEFT JAB, YEAH RIGHT! WE HAD TO GET UP EARLY, GRAB A BITE TO EAT AND GET THE CRAZY CHINAMAN BACK TO NYC SO HE COULD CATCH HIS PLANE TO HONG KONG!!!!!!!!

JIMITHEGREEK DOES JURY DUTY AND IT GOES TO TRIAL

I RECEIVED THE DREADED JURY NOTIFICATION LETTER IN THE MAIL. NORMALLY I JUST THROW THEM OUT AS I DO NOT DEEM MYSELF FIT TO BE A JUROR. C'MON, WHO IS KIDDING WHO, NO ONE ACTUALLY WANTS TO DO THEIR CIVIC DUTY AND SERVE AS A JUROR. WHY? WHY, YOU ASK? ....BECAUSE YOU ARE DEALING WITH CIVIL SERVICE AND BUREAUCRACY . NO WHERE IS THE BUREAUCRACY CUMBERSOME, TEDIOUS, FRUSTRATING, ANNOYING AND TO BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS AS IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA. SO MY LETTER SAYS THIS IS IT, I GOTTA SHOW OR THEY WILL HUNT ME DOWN. LIKE OSAMA?

ANYWAYS IT SAID CALL SUNDAY EVE FOR MONDAY. I CALLED AND THE NICE RECORDING SAID TO CALL MONDAY EVE FOR TUESDAY. EGADS, THE NOT SO NICE RECORDING SAID TO SHOW UP TUESDAY MORNING AT 10:00AM. YIKES

SO OFF I GO TO 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, N.Y. WHAT THEY DO NOT TELL YOU IS THAT THERE IS PARKING HELL THERE! IN WE GO AND WAIT IS WHAT WE DO. WAIT FOR THE PERFUNCTORY SPEECH. TURN IN YOUR PAPERS AND WAIT TO BE CALLED. GET CALLED AND WAIT TO BE INTERVIEWED BY THE SAVAGE LAWYERS!..... BUT I HAD A PLAN. Q. " IS THERE ANY REASONS WHY YOU DO NOT BELIEVE YOU WOULD BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL IN THIS CASE?" A. "NO, I CAN'T WAIT TO PUT SOMEONE IN JAIL" "SIR, PLEASE GO SEE THE CLERK. " NOW I AM THINKING THAT I AM OUT HOME FREE, OUTTA HERE LIKE VLADAMIR.....BUT NOOOOO. THE CLERK LAYS OUT THE SKINNY FOR ME. I COULD COOPERATE AND INTERVIEW FOR CIVIL CASE JURIES AND MAYBE BE OUT OF THERE IN A COUPLE OF DAYS TO A WEEK OR HE WOULD MAKE ME SHOW UP EVERYDAY FOR AT LEAST A WEEK OR TWO AND WAIT, WAIT, WAIT. I FIGURED I MAY AS WELL COOPERATE AS NO ONE WOULD PICK ME TO SERVE AS A JUROR! YEAH RIGHT! I WAS PICKED THE VERY NEXT CASE, EVEN THOUGH I WAS WEARING MY NAZI SWASTIKA HEADBAND! (JUST KIDDING BUT I WAS PICKED!!!)

NOT TO BORE MY THOUSANDS OF READERS WITH ALL THE GRIM DETAILS OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.....BUT THIS MEDICAL MAL PRACTISE CASE TOOK UP ALMOST TWO FULL WEEKS IN APRIL. WHAT I LEARNED IS THAT EVEN THOUGH OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IS VERY IMPERFECT IT IS STILL PRETTY DAMN GOOD. EVERYONE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO PURSUE THEIR CAUSE. IN THIS INSTANCE IT TOOK SIX YEARS TO GET TO TRIAL. THERE WERE A TOTAL OF EIGHT OF US SERVING, SIX JURORS AND TWO ALTERNATES. EVERYONE TOOK THIS JUROR RESPONSIBILITY SERIOUSLY AND FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS. THE WHOLE PROCESS WAS WELL DONE AND WAS QUITE FAIR. I LEARNED MIRE ABOUT THE HUMAN WRIST AND CATHETERS THAN I WOULD EVER WANT TO KNOW. I LEARNED THAT THOSE EXPERT WITNESSES MAKE ABOUT FIVE GRAND PER DAY FOR TESTIFYING. I LEARNED THAT SOME OF THE SHARPEST AND BRIGHTEST MINDS IN NEW YORK ARE LAWYERS. I WAS MOST IMPRESSED AT HOW INTELLIGENT AND ARTICULATE THE TWO LAWYERS WERE. ALL IN ALL IT WAS AN EDUCATIONAL, INFORMATIONAL AND SOMETIMES BORING EXPERIENCE. GOOD NEWS IS THAT I DO NOT HAVE TO SERVE JURY DUTY FOR ANOTHER SIX YEARS AND I DID MAKE AN EXTRA 240 BUCKS AND GOT A FREE LUNCH OUT OF THE DEAL!!

THUG GANGSTA JIMITHEGREEK STYLE

TRUE THAT!

FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS WITH MY FAVORITE BROWN EYED YOUNGEST DAUGHTER AT THE MOHEGAN SUN CASINO & RESORT

YET ANOTHER FIGHT NIGHT YOU SAY? AGAIN AT MOHEGAN SUN, YOU SAY? WHAT, IT WAS ON ESPN 2'S FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS? THE SEATS WERE SO CLOSE YOU COULD SEE JIMITHEGREEK'S WHITE BASEBALL HAT ON TV? BLAH BLAH BLAH...WHAT THE DEUCE?? NOW, NOW THIS WAS A SPECIAL FATHER DAUGHTER NIGHT WITH MY FAVORITE 23 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. SHE DROVE DOWN FROM QUINCY. MASS (NO SHE IS NOT A REDSOX FAN!!) AND I DROVE UP FROM NYC. WE BOTH ARRIVED EARLY ENOUGH FOR DINNER. AFTER LOOKING ABOUT AND A FEW I DON'T CARE WHERE WE EAT, WE DECIDED TO DINE AT TODD ENGLISH'S TUSCANY. A SUPER CHOICE IF I SAY SO MYSELF. WE SHARED THE TUSCAN SALAD AND SOME MIGHTY TASTY RUSTIC SPICY MUSSELS IN TOMATO SAUCE. FOR DINDIN I HAD THE TUNA WITH VEAL AGNOLOTTI (FUNKY RAVIOLI!) AND DAUGHTER DEAR HAD THE CRAB-CRUSTED HALIBUT WITH ARTICHOKE SMEAR, BABY CARROTS, SALSIFY & CITRUS BURRO FUSSO? WHO WRITES THIS MENU STUFF? I WAS ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT GETTING THE SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS, BUT I COULD NOT BRING MYSELF TO PAY SIXTEEN SMACKEROOS FOR "HANDCRAFTED" MEATBALLS & PASTA! AREN'T ALL MEATBALLS HANDMADE? ANYWAY THE MEAL WAS INDEED FABULOUS, ALTHOUGH I WAS PRAYING THAT THE TWO STRANGELINGS NEXT TO US WOULD NOT TRY AND HAVE A CONVERSATION OR ANY CONTACT WITH US. LUCKILY NO EYE CONTACT OR ANY CONTACT AT ALL AND THEY WENT OFF TO BOARD THE SPACESHIP! NO ROOM FOR DESERT...ON TO THE FIGHTS!

WELL NOT EXACTLY ......... YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF JIMITHEGREEK WANTED TO LEARN HOW TO GAMBLE. I EXPLAINED THAT IT WAS EASY, JUST THROW YOUR MONEY OUT THE WINDOW AND YOU GET THE SAME RESULTS!!! ANYWAY YOU KNOW THESE KIDS NOWADAYS, THEY NEVER LISTEN!, JUST KIDDING YA'LL!


SO WE GO PLAY SOME WHEEL OF FORTUNE SLOTS AND GUESS WHAT? NOW WE DID NOT WIN THE BIG BONUS, BUT I DID WIN ABOUT A HUNDRED BUCKS ON THE QUARTER SLOTS. AFTER CASHING IN OUR FORTUNE WE WANDERED ABOUT WITH ME IMPARTING MY INFINITE GAMBLING WISDOM AND TIPS. (HOPEFULLY NOTHING STUCK) WE STOPPED BY A ROULETTE TABLE AND I WAS EXPLAINING HOW THE BETS ARE MADE AND THE ODDS ETC. THERE WAS A WOMAN SITTING THERE WAITING FOR THE TABLE TO OPEN AND I JOKED THAT I WAS TEACHING / CORRUPTING MY DAUGHTER. THE LADY KINDA HUFFED AND SNEERED AT ME!! THE FRIGGIN COW WASN'T ACTUALLY AT CHURCH HERSELF WAS SHE!!! OK , NOW WE GO TO THE FIGHTS...............

LOW & BEHOLD, WE GOTS SOME RINGSIDE SEATS, ABOUT CINCO ROWS FROM THE RING. WE BE LIKE SOME VIPS. THE SEATS WERE MEGA GOOD. OF COURSE I SAT NEXT TO THE FAT DRUNK WHO KEPT STUMBLING UP TO GET A BEER OR GO TO THE FAT DRUNKS ROOM. OTHER THAN THAT THE FIGHTS WERE PRETTY GREAT. LETS GO RIGHT TO THE FEATURED FIGHT OF THE NIGHT. MATT "TOO SMOOTH" GODFREY VS FELIX "BAD NEWS" CORA. YEAH IT WAS BAD NEWS FOR CORA ALL RIGHT. HE GOT WHIPPED AROUND, BEATEN LIKE A WHOLE BUNCH OF EGGS IN A BAKERY AND WAS KNOCKED OUT IN THE SECOND ROUND. LET ME TELL YOU WHEN A CRUISERWEIGHT HITS THE CANVAS HARD, ITS LOUD!

THE CO-FEATURE OF THE EVENING WAS LIGHT WELTERWEIGHTS ISRAEL "PITO" CARDONA VS JUAN MANUEL "BUENA VISTA" BUENDIA. THIS WAS A NON STOP 8 ROUNDER THAT WENT UNANIMOUSLY TO BUENDIA. CARDONA WAS GAME BUT JUAN MANUEL WAS TOO FAST & STRONG FOR HIM. WE ALSO SAW THE BIG BOYS, HEAVYWEIGHTS JASON "BIG SIX" ESTRADA VS ZACH PAGE. I THINK PAGE'S NICKNAME SHOULD BE "BIG CAN", AS IN TOMATO CAN! THIS WAS BASICALLY ESTRADA LUMBERING AROUND THE RING TRYING TO CATCH AND HIT THE TOMATO CAN. THE MINUTE "BIG SIX" GETS IN THERE WITH ANYONE BIG WITH SKILLS, HE WILL GO DOWN HARD. THE MOST ENTERTAINING FIGHT ON THE UNDER CARD WAS THE TWO LADIES GOING AT IT. ADDY IRIZARRY WAS THE LOCAL FAVORITE FROM HARTFORD,CT VS ELLA NUNEZ FROM JAMESTOWN, NY. WOW , THIS FIGHT WAS NON-STOP ACTION FROM THE GET GO TO THE END OF THE FOURTH ROUND. ME AND THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER WERE BOTH A BIT AFRAID OF THESE TWO GALS. THEY WERE FIERCE AND THE NY GAL WON A WELL DESERVED DECISION.

ANYWAYS IT TOOK ME AWHILE TO"BLOG" IT BUT I KNEW I WOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER A GREAT AND VERY SPECIAL EVENING FOR ME WITH MY FAVORITE BROWN EYED YOUNGEST DAUGHTER AT THE MOHEGAN SUN CASINO & RESORT.

THE LYNCHING OF IMUS!

SO CBS FINALLY FIRED IMUS ON APRIL 12, 2007. YES , EVERYONE AGREES WHAT HE SAID WAS DEPLORABLE, HORRIBLE AND INEXCUSABLE. ALL THIS IS TRUE, BUT IT IS NOTHING NEW FOR IMUS. HE ALWAYS SAYS SHOCKINGLY BAD THINGS, IT IS HIS SCHTICK. DOES NOT MAKE HIM RIGHT BUT THE FACT THAT CBS WAS A BUNCH OF PANSIES & SOFTEES AND ACQUIESCED TO THE REVERENDS OF EXTORTION AL SHARPTON AND JESSE JACKSON IS JUST AS DEPLORABLE. WHILE IMUS'S WORDS ARE HORRIBLE HIS ACTIONS ARE ULTIMATELY GOOD AS EVIDENCED BY HIS CHARITY WORK AND HIS RANCH FOR KIDS WITH CANCER. HE HAS HELPED MORE KIDS AND PEOPLE THAN THE TWO REVERENDS EVER WILL. MY BEEF IS WITH JACKSON & SHARPTON, TWO OF THE BIGGEST HYPOCRITES EVER.



Al SHARPTON WAS QUOTED WHEN SPEAKING TO AN AUDIENCE AT KEAN COLLEGE IN 1994 THAT;

“White folks was in caves while we was building empires ... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

SHARPTON HAS SOME NERVE DISSING MY GREEK PEEPS, AND WHICH OF HIS PEOPLE WAS HE TALKING ABOUT? MUST BE FROM STROM THURMONDS SIDE OF THE FAMILY

JESSE JACKSON HAS SAID SOME RACISTS REMARKS ABOUT JEWS:

"that Nixon was less attentive to poverty in the U.S. because "four out of five [of Nixon's top advisers] are German Jews and their priorities are on Europe and Asia"; that he was "sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust"; that there are "very few Jewish reporters that have the capacity to be objective about Arab affairs"; In addition Rev. Jackson had referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in January 1984 during a conversation with Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman.

BOTH THESE "REVERENDS' HAVE NO CREDIBILITY IN MY BOOK AND ANY LEGIT NEW YORKER WILL ATTEST THAT SHARPTON'S CREDIBILITY IS LESS THAN ZERO. IT IS TRULY A SHAME THAT THESE TWO ARE CONSIDERED THE SPOKESMEN AND LEADERS OF BLACK AMERICA WHEN WE HAVE SUCH GREAT AFRICAN AMERICANS SUCH AS RICHARD PARSONS, COLIN POWELL, CONDOLEEZA RICE, KENNETH CHENAULT, VERNON JORDAN, HAROLD FORD, CHARLIE RANGEL ETC ETC.

THE ONLY THING THAT JESSE & AL SUCCEEDED IN DOING WAS JUST PISS OFF A FEW MILLION MIDDLE AGED, MIDDLE CLASS WHITE GUYS WHO DON'T GET THE NEW DOUBLE STANDARD. AS FOR IMUS HE WILL SUE CBS MAKE ANOTHER FORTUNE AND COME BACK EVEN MORE POPULAR ON SATELLITE RADIO.

OH AND BY THE WAY DID YOU HEAR THAT THE RUTGERS COACH C. VIVIAN STRINGER JUST GOT A MILLION DOLLAR BOOK DEAL? DOES ANYONE REALLY THINK THAT SHE GETS THIS LUCRATIVE BOOK DEAL WITHOUT THE IMUS HIDEOUS REMARKS?

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"ALWAYS DO RIGHT. THIS WILL GRATIFY SOME PEOPLE, AND ASTONISH THE REST"
- MARK TWAIN

A CHINAMAN AND THE GREEK GO
BOXING BOINGO BONZO - ROUND 1





WHO WOULD BELIEVE IT? THE ODDEST COUPLE YOU COULD SEE AT A PRIZEFIGHT. A CHINAMAN AND THE GREEK AT A BOXING EVENT FEATURING A JEWISH FIGHTER? YES, THERE WE WERE RINGSIDE AT THE HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM IN NYC. WE STAYED FOR THE FULL FIGHT CARD ON MARCH 22, 2007 CULMINATING WITH THE FEATURED EVENT DMITRIY SALITA VS GROVER WILEY.

GROVER WILEY?? MORE ON THAT LATER. LETS SEE , HOW DID WE GET HERE? MY BUD & COLLEAGUE FROM HONG KONG, ENJOYS THE FINER THINGS IN LIFE. THAT WOULD INCLUDE FOOD & BOXING RIGHT NEAR THE TOP. I HAVE TO THANK HIM HERE AND NOW FOR REKINDLING MY LOVE OF BOXING A FEW YEARS BACK. WE HAVE MADE PILGRIMAGES TO THE IBHOF ANNUAL HALL OF FAME WEEKEND. WE HAVE MET SOME GREAT BOXERS , PEOPLE AND JUST HAD A GREAT TIME. WE ARE UNABLE TO MAKE THE HALL OF FAME WEEKEND THIS YEAR DUE TO SOME HIDEOUS WORK RELATED COMMITMENT, SO WE HAD AN ALTERNATE BOXING EXTRAVAGANZA STARTING WITH THE BROADWAY BOXING SHOW ON MARCH 22ND.

SO THE DOORS OPENED AT 6PM WITH THE FIRST BOUT AT 7PM. OF COURSE WE WERE THERE A LITTLE EARLY AS NOT TO MISS ANYTHING! PRIOR TO ARRIVING WE HAD A LITTLE NOSH AT A MEDIOCRE DELI NEAR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AND THEN PERUSED MACY'S BASEMENT / FOOD AREA AND HAD A LITTLE SNACK THERE TOO! LET ME TELL YOU , MACY'S HERALD SQUARE AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE, BUT THEN AGAIN WHAT IS. I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THE CORPORATE OWNERS WILL FULLY RUIN MACY'S JUST LIKE THEY DID WITH THE MAY DEPT STORES (MARSHAL FIELDS ETC). OH WELL WHAT TO DO? BACK TO DA FIGHTS

LIKE I SAID WE ARE THERE EARLY AND SETTLE IN TO OUR 4TH ROW RINGSIDE SEATS AND WATCH THE CROWD FILL IN. IT WAS FASCINATING AS IT WAS ABOUT 40% HASIDIM, 30% BLACK & 20% OTHER. I AM PRETTY SURE THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE CHINESE GUY AND ONE GREEK GUY THERE. IT LOOKED LIKE AND TURNED OUT TO BE A FUN CROWD. THERE WAS SEVEN SCHEDULED BOUTS FEATURING LOCAL NEW YORK FIGHTERS. THE EARLY FIGHTS INCLUDED A COUPLE OF HEAVYWEIGHT MATCHES ALONG WITH A DECENT JR WELTERWEIGHT BOUT. THE GUYS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO WIN WON AND THEY WERE FAIRLY ENTERTAINING. THE THREE FEATURED BOUTS HAD THE "CHIN CHECKERS" CURTIS "SHOWTIME' STEVENS & JAIDON "THE DON" CODRINGTON BOTH WON THEIR FIGHTS HANDILY DESPITE SOME SPIRITED OUTMATCHED COMPETITION. THE FIGHTS WERE QUITE ENTERTAINING IN THE RING AND OUTSIDE THE RING AS WELL. IT WAS QUITE A VOCIFEROUS CROWD AND WE HAD A VERY AMUSING COMMENTATOR BEHIND US. EVERY TIME THE FIGHTERS WOULD CLINCH HE WOULD TELL THEM NOT TO GET TOO SEXY AND FIGHT. OF COURSE THERE WAS MUCH MORE BUT THIS IS A FAMILY BLOG AFTER ALL.

FINALLY THE MAIN EVENT...DMITRIY "STAR OF DAVID" SALITA VS GROVER WILEY FROM OMAHA, NEBRASKA. OMAHA? I THINK THIS IS THE ONLY FIGHTER WE HAVE EVER HEARD OF FROM OMAHA, NEBRASKA. ANYWAYS WILEY'S CLAIM TO FAME IS HIS DEFEAT OF JULIO CESAR CHAVEZ SR IN SEP 05 FINALLY RETIRING HIM. ALSO HIS VERY ADORABLE SON ACCOMPANYING HIM TO THE RING. THE INTERESTING THING WAS THAT THE CROWD REALLY THINNED OUT AS MOST OF THE BLACKS LEFT AND THE ORTHODOX JEWS SURGED AS CLOSE TO THE RING AS THEY COULD GET. I CANNOT RECALL SEEING AND HEARING SUCH RABID FANS AT ANY SPORTING EVENT IN A LONG TIME. IT WAS QUITE ENJOYABLE AS THE NOISE LEVEL JUMPED AT EVERY PUNCH OR MOVE BY SALITA. GROVER WAS A GAME AND TOUGH FIGHTER BUT HE WAS OUTMATCHED BY THE MUCH FASTER DMITRIY. THE UNANIMOUS DECISION FOR THE "STAR OF DAVID" WAS INEVITABLE MUCH TO THE CROWDS FRENZIED DELIGHT. PERSONALLY I LIKE THE NICKNAME "HEBREW HAMMER" BETTER. SINCE THE DECISION WAS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION WE CUT OUT A LITTLE EARLY TO AVOID THE GLUT AT THE PARKING GARAGE

WE ATE ONE NIGHT AT CHURRAACARIA RIODIZIO WITH THE SOME OF THE OFFICE CREW. THE FOOD AND THE SERVICE WAS OUTSTANDING AND ENJOYED BY ALL. HOWEVER I AM VERY SUSPICIOUS OF THE MEAT ORIGIN DUE TO THE FACT THAT MY CHOLESTEROL SHOT UP TO OVER 300 THE VERY NEXT DAY WHEN I TOOK MY BLOOD TEST!! WELL MAYBE THE TIMING WAS NOT GOOD, BUT THE MEAT WAS DAMN GOOD. PROBABLY WAS NOT THE MEAT BUT THE DAMN CHOCOLATE CAKE! YEAH THAT WAS IT THE CAKE!!