Couldn't Work Today

Well the weather in Vegas sucks today, and will likely continue thru the weekend. My bosses aren't happy about it but there is nothing I can do to keep my crew working and generating revenue.

THE FIGHTER

     Well since I couldn't work I went to the movies. I saw "The Fighter" with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale.
Very good movie. I highly recommend it. For those of you who don't know it is the story of the early career of a boxer named Mickey Ward and his drug addled brother. Bale does a great job and should probably win an Oscar this year. For the first 3/4's of the movie he plays Mickey's crack-head brother. In the last quarter he gets out of prison and turns his life around. It is phenomenal the way he portrays both sides of this person so well.

     Mickey Ward had three epic fights with Arturo Gatti. One of the fights was on TV as a date came over to my  house. We almost didn't go out that night. I was watching the fight on my couch while waiting for her to arrive and when we were about to leave she said that we could wait and watch the end of the fight. Felt like the right thing to do was go on the date.

   One fighter I like to watch fight for  a while back in the day was a guy by the name of Rocky Gannon, a cruiserweight. He had 2 tough fights against one guy, sorry don't know his name. These fights were tremendous slugfests. The guys would just wail on each other until the other guy could no longer get back on his feet. Good fights to watch by guys that were not considered great fighters.