“New Blood” no dud

Posted on 17 May 2009   Fight report, Results

img_55Ringside report by Chris Cozzone & Trevor Trujillo

A sparse crowd, a late sub for a late sub who got cold feet and hoofed it out a town, and a comebacking fighter who got the axe for failing his medical exam, might’ve been the downers at yesterday’s first-ever pro-am card at Isleta Resort & Casino, south of Albuquerque.

But “New Blood,” the first-time promotion for Mirabal Boxing and the Isleta Boxing club, with 21 amateur bouts, three pro fights and one-and-a-half exhibitions, did not fail in staining the white canvas red on the all-day, all-ages card . . . Click here for full report and photo gallery

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