#showmanship

#showmanship

Then López entered, dancing. Wearing a Popeye shirt, he raised one hand above his head and bounced like a pogo stick. Rocking through some b-boy footwork, he added Latin flavor, shimmying his shoulders. The official weighing (139.6 pounds) seemed merely an interruption to his dance as he continued prowling the stage. Stevenson was forced to walk over to him, so that the two could perform the next part of the ritual and stare at each other, eye to eye.

The minute I walked through the doors of that boxing club, that was it. I saw the ring, the bags, the lines on the floor, and I was immediately obsessed. This was going to be my life. I saw boxing as a game of tag. I'm going to hit you and you can't hit me. It took speed and accuracy and I was really good at it.

The Savannah Bananas player Robert Anthony Cruz attempted a backflip during a live segment on CNN but fell face-first into the crowd, making for a memorable moment.