At The Circus

Watched the Valuev-McCline fight on TV last night. Gotta admit that boxing on TV's much more prominent over here. Three networks compete for market share right now, so they'll show even mediocre fights on Saturday late prime. Valuev fought some cannon fodder named Jameel McCline who seems to have an exclusive subscription to bad news, so by round three that guy's kneecap snapped out of it's socket, since it was obviously too much to have 120 Kilograms of meat bouncing on some gristle for an extended period of time.

Somehow Valuev fights always feel like tha last gasp of heavyweight boxing as big business. Next exit mud wrestling with dwarfs? Well, next weekend we're off to Göteborg to see some real pro fight. Asa Sandell will be featured in the historical first pro bout on Swedish ground since professional boxing was banned there in 1970. It's gonna be a riot of a weekend. Asa's trainer Blackmore's one of the greatest partiers in the Western hemisphere (he sure helped to give us a fun send-off from Brooklyn), plus Fred's trainer Grant Seligson will be there cornerman. Can't wait..... P.S.: On a note of pure inside jokerism - anybody ever notice the distinct similarities between Valujev and German journo scammer Tom Kummer? Didn't Spy magazine invent this 'seperated at birth' column in the 80s?