Fight Night at The Tank

If you enjoy watching desperate men — and sometimes women — beat one another to a bloody vegetative state, you need not look further than your local boxing event.
Fight Night at the Tank is largely a showcase of new local professional boxing talent getting their first big break in a big event setting. There are usually 5 or 6 bouts, mostly the lighter weights (fly, feather, welter, junior middle, middle), and they go between 4 and 10 rounds each. There is plenty of room to spread out since only about 3,000 are in attendance on any given night in the comfy confines of HP Pavilion.
The mood inside HP on fight night is always one of electricity and excitement, as there is always the chance that someone will die. On this particular night (November 16), all the goombahs, bookies, pimps, tuffies and skinny white boys eagerly awaited Andre Ward, Olympic middleweight gold medalist, Greece ’04, who beat the crap out of some unknown from Gary, Indiana. But it went all six rounds at least.
Bout 5, the main event, matched a couple of washed up old school veterans against each other, for whatever reason. One was a tall lanky hispanic dude. The other was a scrappy scrawny cracker from Miami named Vitali Popitko who was balding and had a nice rose color to him. Although I worried that a strong wind would blow him over, I had to put my money on the Great White Hope, clearly the underdog. Well it just so happens that we would get our money’s worth on this very special night as the two would pummel and beat each other merciless. The hispanic guy had blood gushing from his left eye and the Great White Hope must’ve had a busted rib or two cuz he went down on one knee in obvious pain five or six times.
Great White battled courageously as the hispanic guy sucker punched him over and over working those busted ribs. In the end, the two old-​timers battled Jake LaMotta style through 3 rounds of the 10 round bout, but Popitko succumbed to the agonizing pain of the busted ribs. Either that or he was a real big pussy cuz I didn’t see him absorb that many square shots. In any case, Fight Night is just good, clean, wholesome, bloody, violent, fun for the whole family! Bring all the little goombahs!