SAN DIEGO?Nothing is better for a real boxing nut than couch surfing in the hotel lobby in the hours before a boxing show.
So it was here Friday, just a short time before rising Pinoy lightweight star Mercito ?No Mercy? Gesta was to take the ring at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel against Mexican journeyman Ivan Valle.
In the lobby and then in the coffee shop I got to drink java and gab away with Don Chargin, the legendary, 82 year old fight promoter, Golden Boy publicist Bill Caplan and youthful veteran John Chavez from BoxingTruth.com.
It was just fight guys talking fight talk except for the brief golf gossip about how I beat Chavez like a drum on the hotel’s swampy, nine hole executive course earlier.
I don’t want to say that hacker Chavez spent a lot of time in the sand traps but I did suggest that next time he bring a beach chair an
