Small fight venues that measure up

[greynotsoold]

Morongo is cool, pechanga is ok, but my favorite venue of all time is the Home Depot Center in Carson.

I have so many boxing memories over there after going countless times. I feel right at home at the HDC.

I've been to Pechanga. It kind of sucked that the police put up a sobriety checkpoint on the main road, about 8 feet outside the reservation. I took a back road out, wandered around in the dark for four hours, then came out about 150 feet north of the check point on a dirt road.
The Olympic Auditorium was the best place to see a fight.

I bet that really killed your buzz huh.. lol the mission was well worth it though yea?

Speaking of Olympic Auditorium, you just reminded me of something i forgot all these years...

I watched Vargas-Vanderpool over there and that was the first time I saw Pacquiao live as he faced Emmanuel Lucero on the undercard..

That was the last time at the Olympics... what a memory bruh.. I actually saw pacman at the OA right before he blew up in his very next fight against barrera....

My mom used to take me there for boxing and wrestling in 1968,69,70. After my sister was born in 72 we only went to wrestling. We used to take the bus into the rat-ass downtown LA station, then catch a bus to the Olympic. After the fights we would catch a bus across the street from the Olympic and go up Figueroa; we had friends that lived up there, near Alpine and Hill streets, by the Croatian church.
Last time I went to the fights there, I sat in the 8th row. Roger Mayweather fought one of the Bejines brothers. Azabache Martinez, Dana Roston and Marcos Villasan were also on the card.