Oct 13 2009

Someone Wants Tickets!

Category: Kazakhstan,Sport — ChrisM @ 4:26 pm

The anonymous author of KZBlog has posted about the Shumenov v. Campillo rematch that many have been waiting for. For fuller details, go and read the blog post linked to, but basically the Kazakh guy narrowly lost on a points decision in the last round. Obviously his supporters in the crowd felt this was wrong, and there was a whiff of a doping scandal when his opponent (Campillo) disappeared right when he was required to undergo a drugs test. Anyway, all that wasn’t the main reason I noticed the post, it was that the author can be clearly seen pleading subtly hinting for a ticket to this rematch, as he knows some of the Kazakh boxer’s family, indirectly. Good luck to both of them!

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2 Responses to “Someone Wants Tickets!”

  1. KZBlog says:
    October 16th, 2009 11:05 am

    All I’m saying is, they invite us for beshbarmak when random uncles and cousins come to town, they invited us for manty when their grandkid started school for the first time, could they invite us to a really cool boxing match? Plus knowing this family and how tight and traditional they are, I really want to see one of the older women call Shumenov “sweetie” or “darling” or tell him to wash his hands or something. I want to see a world champion boxer being ordered around by his auntie!

  2. ChrisM says:
    October 16th, 2009 2:25 pm

    If there are cheap seat tickets going spare (hey, I’ll be the guy that holds the bucket the boxer spits into), I’ll pretend to be your long lost cousin 🙂