Coon Rapids, Minn - The new head of the state boxing commission says he'd like to bring a nationally televised fight to Minnesota as early as this fall.
Former heavyweight boxer Scott LeDoux was named by Gov. Tim Pawlenty today to lead the commission. The commission itself is new this year, five years after the state eliminated a body that oversaw the sport here.
Fights were held in Minnesota until last summer under the regulation of other bodies, but national boxing regulators stopped sanctioning those.
LeDoux, of Andover, went 33-13-4 during a boxing career that ended in 1983.