I was reporting for my local newspaper from Ringside last night..

:bears: Made the Calgary Herald today. I was covering Dale Brown's retirement show last night. Here's what they ran with....

Dale Brown is calling it a career, but boxing in Calgary has a bright
future.

In front of an estimated 600 fans, super lightweight prospect Julius Odion
improved his record to 9-0-2 with a dominating unanimous decision over
Mexico's Jorge Luis Lopez at the Deerfoot Inn & Casino on Saturday night. A
five punch combination dropped Lopez in the first round and Odion won every
round afterwards.

The night, however, belonged to former three-time world title challenger
Dale Brown. Brown, who retired from the ring in January, was awarded an
honorary World Championship belt before the fights. The usually even-keeled
Brown choked back tears during a ten minute speech in the ring.


On the undercard, Calgary's Goitom Ghebrezghi lost a technical decision to
the game Eduardo Calderon. The fight was stopped in the third round after
an accidental clash of heads opened up a cut over Calderon's right eye.


To open the show, Dale Philips, Calgary, and Jegbefumere Bone Albert,
Vancouver, both scored second round knockouts against over-matched Mexican
opponents.

 

Congratulations.

I guess the over-matched Mexican opponents shall go nameless. ::

 

:: They were fucking BUMS man. I didn't want to mention that both took clear dives.

 

I had to write that REALLY FAST. The fights didn't end until 11:20, and I had an 11:30 deadline. It was crazy... pretty cool though.

 

They were that obvious?

 

It sounds cool. Nice job.:clap:

 

The first one was. Albert, who opened the show, was making his bro debut. He's this huge nigerian kid... and he was fighting a short, chunky mexican fellow. A decent right hand sent the kid to the ropes and he just fell down and took a count.

In the second fight, Dale dropped his opponent with a body shot. Looked like he could have gotten up to me, but even if he couldn't, he didn't need to be mentioned. ::

 

Thanks man.

 

That's easily the best article on boxing that i've ever read. :bears:

 

I thought so. :clap:

 

Calgary? Holy Land or that other shithole???

 

You suck at paragraphs. That's the type of drivel people are used to reading at Sherdog, this shithole and other internet sites. You have no business writing for a newspaper, except when they are in desperate, desperate need of filler. I mean, you say that Calgary has a bright future for boxing, but don't even attempt to support that view.

 

Wow, that sounds intelligent! :doh:

 

Well, at least you managed to figure out how the "quote" feature works this time. I know, hitting that "quote" button and all... it can be confusing for less intelligent members.

 

Yeah, a lot harder to hit the favorites button and copying something from Wikpedia. :laughing:

 

I've never copied from Wikipedia.

 

That's believable.:laughing:

 

:dunno:

This is getting kind of boring. You're saying the same thing over and over again, without any proof whatsoever. You sound like a Bush aide.

 

Good job, Andrew.:bears:

 

:clap:

 

As I said, I had 11 minutes. It was a small, small story at the end of the sports section.

And besides, I'm not really a print guy. I don't have much experience, but I think I did a solid job considering I was asked to do it the night before.

 

Let us see Rubio's published work here.

 

Don't you have an ignore list for times like these?

 

:: He won't bother me.

I just thought it was pretty cool I made a newspaper. Hopefully I can do it again in July when there's another show.

 

Mostly technical writing; user manuels, textbooks, etc... What have you published?

 

My stuff is in the World Boxing Hall of Fame, "Rubio."

 

Isn't that just a website? Shit, anyone can do that, and the World Boxing Hall of Fame is a minor entity.

 

Yeah, start posting your stuff here, little man.