Word: lacey
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...Initial reaction was negative because of the way it was presented,” said Currier House Committee President Lacey Whitmire...
...adrenaline boost you don't get every day." In the past three years, some 1,200 lawyers, bankers, judges and other suits - mostly thirty- and fortysomething men - have joined London's The Real Fight Club, a for-profit company founded in 2001 by events promoter Alan Lacey. The white-collar amateurs squeeze in two to four 90-minute training sessions a week - plus cross-training on alternate days - with the ultimate goal of getting into the ring to beat the hell out of each other in front of crowds. The attraction? Says Lacey, "Death or glory. Boxing is a chance...
...ALAN LACEY, founder of The Real Fight Club
...gloves are 16 ounces instead of 8, which blunts the punches. There are paramedics and an ambulance waiting, and bouts are stopped if there is too much blood. "The bottom line is that all of these guys have to go back to the office the next day," Lacey says. There's been one knockout - a lawyer named Paul "Mad Manx" Beckett - in 280 rounds. Few egos are badly bruised, though, because no winners are named. "It's intense enough without that," says Paul Damonte, 39, a money broker...
...Lacey's hit idea was imported from the U.S., where he felt the pull of pugilism first-hand. He is a wiry 50-year-old with perfectly coiffed hair, but look closely and you'll see a fine white line snaking above each eye - scars from the gym. He began to learn to box in 1998, when he was "looking down at the abyss of middle age and not fancying the drop." He heard about white-collar fights at New York's Gleason's Gym - once home of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson - and flew over to box a dentist...