European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition pages Mary Gordon throws a right Hook toward Kate both off company Forward Supply 2nd Bridge combat 1st Galloway won the photos by Teri and stripes Ever feel like just punching someone out 90 fighters get their Chance to do just that in a Green zone tourney by Teri Weaver stars and stripes Forward operating base Union Iraq when Armando Montemayor took a swing at Douglas Gra the crowd just lost it was fight night for Black Jack the 2nd brigade combat 1st cavalry division and More than 300 people had turned out at dusk last Friday for the first of five sparring matches Over two ninety people had signed up to fight in nine different weight class the boxers had picked their trunk their nicknames and their one sergeant used a chaplain for guidance in the Cor another pugilist strode in As the fighting including four had trained for at least a the brigades members had welded the ring Ham mered on the Strung the and stuffed the Corner they had set rules three two minute rounds with a ring judge and medical staff on a sound system pumped out music so loud Many danced in the no one would admit whether bets were and As the tournament the brigades commander stood at the Center of the red under the lights and under a Black Stet son with a Cigar in one hand and a pair of boxing gloves hanging from his he quoted Don King Only in America except it want it was where 17 members of the brigade have died in six two last its where the Black Jack brigade patrols some of the most troubled parts of the including Haifa a notorious strip on the Western Side where violence keeps rotating in year after but the violence in that sector has according to members off the 2nd brigade combat 1st cavalry planned a boxing tournament that Drew More than 300 spectators on its opening night Friday on Forward operating base Union Iii in the International prizes will be awarded next the Man in the Bryan i could take you Down to Haifa Street right Roberts said while watching one of his pummel another in the ring Early in the one of the Bri Gades two joint Security stations is in the heart of and Rob erts said the new Model of putting and iraqi soldiers inside the City to live and patrol is making a Roberts it was time to approve a plan of another the tournament had been on the brigades wish list before they deployed late last thanks to a few soldiers now dubbed the ring but they ran out of time before leaving fort they brought the show on the and when Montemayor took his swing at the the crowd took for three they yelled and jeered at their friends and in the fighters stumbled forgot to dance on their burst gushers from each others All night the noise roared up the sides of the a fifth floor Cavern inside a former iraqi government building near the Green the buildings construction Lay the roof fans watched from rooftops and and they screamed into the rank didst but Pride certainly a Golden gloves Boxer since he was a won by a technical knockout in the second Ive always loved he said after the he Hopes to fight again this the championships Are email Teri Weaver at  military services we do what we say say what we do Al from construction to maintenance from supplies to weve got it All located at Afghanistan Qatar Kuwait Iraq email us