Hobbs: Fight report and gallery

Posted on 11 July 2010   Fight report

Ringside report byGerardo “Silent G” Martinez
Photos by Chris Cozzone

On a knockout card, the School of Hard Knocks, under Isidro Castillo, and star pupil, Edgar Zubia, all from Hobbs, debuted at the Club La Sierra in their hometown.

In six well-matched bouts, just one ending early, the crowd got increasingly boisterous until it nearly boiled over during the main event, when the 600 or so in attendance started to sound like 2,000. An easy win for their hometown favorite, Edgar “Z” Zubia, however, wasn’t in the books as the Hobbs hometowner from the School of Hard Knocks was forced to endure, well, a hard lesson in hard knocks brought upon him by underestimated Roswell foe John “Smiley” Herrera . . . Click here for more

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