Griffin and Mack play it to the bone
Mark E. Ortega
UndisputedFightMag.com
January 10, 2011
In boxing, they say friends don't make
for good fights.
On February 4th, light
heavyweights Otis “Triple OG” Griffin [23-6-2, 9 KOs] and Yusaf
Mack [28-3-2, 17 KOs], friends for a number of years, will be looking
across the ring at each other with a IBF world title shot being the
spoils to the winner. What makes this fight different from many other
clashes amongst friends is that neither man is already at the top of
the sport.
Consider this fight a real life version
of the 1999 boxing comedy “Play It to the Bone”, which starred
Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson as fringe contenders who trained
out of the same gym and were given the opportunity to fight each
other for a shot at the world title.
In that film, Woddy Harrelson as Vince
Boudreau said “The worst thing in the ring you wanna feel is
compassion.”