A woman and a man are going to square-off in the ring . . . in Mississippi.
Indeed, this freak show is too freaky even for Las Vegas, which is why they're holding it in Mississippi. Mark your calendar for Oct. 15 if for some reason you feel compelled to buy the pay-per-view.
Get about 20 of your buddies, load up on the beer and have a good ol' time.
Just make sure the women are in the other room.
"You know how women are - they're going to try and take it further and further," Skipper [the male fighter] said on the phone the other day during his lunch break from his job at a machine shop in Laurel. "I got to stop it in its tracks." . .
Sadly enough, fighters do get injured. Last month one of them died in Las Vegas after a fight.
So why increase the risks by having a man fight a woman, even a woman who seems to be far more talented than Skipper, who has been knocked out in his last two fights and has never beaten a fighter with a winning record.
If it wasn't for finishing third in a tough man competition at the bar at a local Ramada Inn a few years back, Skipper never would have become a fighter.
As it is, he's never made more than $1,200 for a fight. So he leaped at the chance to make some money by being the foil for [female boxer] Wolfe.
"At first I said, 'Man, I ain't fighting no woman,' '' Skipper said. "But she challenged me, and I can't see a woman beating me. I'm going to train like I never did before."
Wolfe, who is 21-1 with 15 knockouts, says the fight wasn't exactly her idea, either. She wants desperately to make some big money by fighting Laila Ali, who is perhaps the only woman boxer who can sell tickets.
But she claims Ali has been running from her, so she's taking the money where she can get it.
And money means a lot to a fighter who says she sometimes got only one dollar for her bouts.
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This sounds (sounds) like it's a legitimate fight, but if it's fixed, it wouldn't surprise us. We won't pay to see it, but that doesn't mean we wouldn't sneak over to a friend's house to watch if he has it on pay-per-view.
