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By: Thomas Crone For the St. Louis AmericanJuly 29, 2004
14 year old Melvin Latimore works out at the 12th and Park Recreation Center. Photo by Wiley Price
You've heard the talk of a pro fight or two coming to town. Lavish, big-ticket arena cards, with Our Town's Cory Spinks and the still-bankable Mike Tyson bandied about as the assumed headliners. These fights attract the marginal fans, the types who'll watch the expensive pay-per-views a couple times a year, but little else.
And they'll excite the local media, who'll be able to follow and exploit the simple storylines. In one case, the amiable, local kid who's made good. In the other, the tarnished champion, returning for a dual claim on vindication and debt-dissolving cash.
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If those fights happen, there'll be the usual talk about St. Louis' role as a hub of boxing in this country, as a cradle to nearly a dozen world champions. Talk radio will buzz, briefly, with the names of Liston and Moore. The fights will happen, with a few local heroes peppered onto the undercard. And then the show will be over.
The promoters will move on to the next extravaganza in Vegas, Atlantic City, Tunica or Philly. We'll still have boxing in St. Louis, though not a lot of folks will be talking about it, at least not through the usual, public channels.
But pro fights will continue to happen, regularly, in the usual strange assortment of banquet facilities, union halls, casino parking lots and oversized nightclubs. The amateurs will do battle in high school gyms, city rec centers, bingo parlors and fraternal clubs. A few hu"
By: Thomas Crone For the St. Louis AmericanJuly 29, 2004
14 year old Melvin Latimore works out at the 12th and Park Recreation Center. Photo by Wiley Price
You've heard the talk of a pro fight or two coming to town. Lavish, big-ticket arena cards, with Our Town's Cory Spinks and the still-bankable Mike Tyson bandied about as the assumed headliners. These fights attract the marginal fans, the types who'll watch the expensive pay-per-views a couple times a year, but little else.
And they'll excite the local media, who'll be able to follow and exploit the simple storylines. In one case, the amiable, local kid who's made good. In the other, the tarnished champion, returning for a dual claim on vindication and debt-dissolving cash.
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If those fights happen, there'll be the usual talk about St. Louis' role as a hub of boxing in this country, as a cradle to nearly a dozen world champions. Talk radio will buzz, briefly, with the names of Liston and Moore. The fights will happen, with a few local heroes peppered onto the undercard. And then the show will be over.
The promoters will move on to the next extravaganza in Vegas, Atlantic City, Tunica or Philly. We'll still have boxing in St. Louis, though not a lot of folks will be talking about it, at least not through the usual, public channels.
But pro fights will continue to happen, regularly, in the usual strange assortment of banquet facilities, union halls, casino parking lots and oversized nightclubs. The amateurs will do battle in high school gyms, city rec centers, bingo parlors and fraternal clubs. A few hu"
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