Saturday, May 26, 2007

American Metal and Iron Fight Night



About the only sport I like to watch is boxing, so I grabbed an opportunity to shoot James “Lights Out” Toney's attempt at a comeback in the heavyweight division at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA on May 24, 2007. This was the first live boxing match I've attended and wanted to get some experience shooting it. Nhat Meyer was the the photographer on the assignment for the Mercury News - see his excellent slideshow [Nhat's Slideshow]. Lots of fun... (Photos by LiPo Ching)



"Hard-hitting action returned to HP Pavilion at San Jose on Thursday, May 24, 2007 with the second night of the American Metal and Iron Fight Night at the Tank season. The successful boxing series hosted four inspired bouts before a crowd of 4,269, highlighted by James “Lights Out” Toney’s main event fight." (Excerpted from www.fightnightatthetank.com)



"Toney (70-6-3, 43 KOs) survived a strong showing by Danny Batchelder (25-5-1, 12 KOs) earning the split decision in the slow-paced fight. Toney, a seven-time World Champion and future first ballot Hall of Famer, struggled to control the bout against the gritty Batchelder as the two boxers looked cautious and tentative throughout the fight." (Excerpted from www.fightnightatthetank.com)



" [though] Toney won a 10-round split decision over Batchelder... in the process he exposed his ambition of becoming heavyweight champion as being nothing more than a pipe dream. When the scores were read - 98-92 and 97-93 for Toney and 96-94 for Batchelder - the crowd of 4,269 showered him with boos. But Toney (70-9-3) refused to acknowledge that his time had passed. "I'm not done," he said. "I just looked that way." (excerpted from Dylan Hernandez/Mercury News)

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