Withdrawal won’t KO boxing card
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This article was published 13/11/2010 (5827 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Over the years, Noel Harding has received a crash course into the oft-unpredictable nature of boxing in Manitoba. So when a late, drastic change was thrown his way, Harding simply, pardon the pun, rolled with the punches.
Early Friday, the Pan-Am Boxing Club in Winnipeg pulled the plug on their fighters appearing in tonight’s scheduled ‘Brawls in the B-Town’ card slated for the Manitoba Room at the Keystone Centre, forcing Harding, the event organizer, to find a way to keep the show alive at the last minute.
“The show must go on. I’m not the kind of guy to cancel my event the day before the event,” Harding said.
So, Harding has instead organized a Brandon Boxing Club intraclub card and the club’s owner is adamant that tonight’s event will deliver for entertainment value.
“It’ll actually be more entertaining than the amateur bouts would’ve been,” Harding said. “… We’re going to be making some match-ups that are going to be very entertaining — they’re going to be just as entertaining, if not more entertaining, than an actual amateur bout. It’s going to be a good night. … I’m going to put forward the best possible show for the community.”
The crux of the problem, Harding said, comes from the Manitoba Amateur Boxing Association’s decision to switch its provincial championships — which have been moved twice — to this coming Monday and Tuesday, which affected the appearance of the Pan-Am fighters. It also meant that the card would not be a sanctioned amateur event.
“We haven’t had a show in 13 months (in Brandon) and the community wants boxing,” Harding said.
Harding said he anticipated “at least six to eight fights minimum” on the card.