Tweet
Snow wafts downwards, pristine ivory providing a clean slate, the proverbial White Christmas oft dreamt about, but in this century of technology and transatlantic travel, one cannot allow idle admiration of the incoming inches. Rather, snow becomes slush, which ices over the roads, leaving a plethora of potential accidents waiting to happen, a consequential messy situation.
Alas, in the not-so-little town of Buffalo, there is celebration over reincarnation, in the form of “Baby” Joe Mesi, the undefeated heavyweight whose nearly two years of forced inactivity is finally over; the prolonged legal wrangling has produced a decision – no matter how technical – that will go down as a victory on the one-time contender’s ledger.
Down in the alphabetical ordering of states this story goes, from New York to Nevada, where Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon presided over a case in which the resolution would impact Mesi’s health and wealth, favoring one at the expense of the other.
Herndon found that the state athletic commission’s medical suspension and subsequent countrywide ban – imposed after Mesi suffered two subdural hematomas during a unanimous decision win over Vassiliy Jirov, who sent “Baby Joe” to the canvas thrice in the bout’s final two rounds – was no longer valid, that the penalties were no longer enforceable since Mesi’s state boxing license expired. [details]
Alas, in the not-so-little town of Buffalo, there is celebration over reincarnation, in the form of “Baby” Joe Mesi, the undefeated heavyweight whose nearly two years of forced inactivity is finally over; the prolonged legal wrangling has produced a decision – no matter how technical – that will go down as a victory on the one-time contender’s ledger.
Down in the alphabetical ordering of states this story goes, from New York to Nevada, where Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon presided over a case in which the resolution would impact Mesi’s health and wealth, favoring one at the expense of the other.
Herndon found that the state athletic commission’s medical suspension and subsequent countrywide ban – imposed after Mesi suffered two subdural hematomas during a unanimous decision win over Vassiliy Jirov, who sent “Baby Joe” to the canvas thrice in the bout’s final two rounds – was no longer valid, that the penalties were no longer enforceable since Mesi’s state boxing license expired. [details]
Comment