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	By Gary “Digital” Williams; FightNews September 19th, 2014		By Gary “Digital” Williams; FightNews September 19th, 2014
	Here is the scale watch for the GFS Entertainment Promotions card on Saturday,		Here is the scale watch for the GFS Entertainment Promotions card on Saturday,

Blue at 05:15, 22 September 2014

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			By Gary “Digital” Williams; FightNews September 19th, 2014
			Here is the scale watch for the GFS Entertainment Promotions card on Saturday,
			September 20 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC:
			Henry Buchanan 173 vs. Alexander Johnson 174
			DeMarcus Corley 133 vs. Daniel Attah 135
			Demond Nicholson 161 vs. Dennis Sharpe 163
			Jarrett Hurd 154 vs. Damon Antoine (will weigh in on Friday)
			Jeff Lacy 178 vs. Rayco Saunders 174
			Hector Camacho, Jr.’s bout with Ryan Davis has been scratched. No official word was given.
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	Results from Washington DC [http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/results-from-washington-dc-4-261709]		Results from Washington DC [http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/results-from-washington-dc-4-261709]

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   Much More on the Debacle in D.C.; Jeff Lacy Lashes Out[http://www.boxingscene.com/much-more-on-debacle-dc-jeff-lacy-lashes-out--82386]
   by David P. Greisman; BoxingScene Last update:  9/21/2014

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Much More on the Debacle in D.C.; Jeff Lacy Lashes Out[http://www.boxingscene.com/much-more-on-debacle-dc-jeff-lacy-lashes-out--82386]
by David P. Greisman; BoxingScene Last update: 9/21/2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It had already been a bizarre evening at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Then the night got even stranger, with an announcement that former super-middleweight titleholder Jeff
Lacy’s fight with Rayco Saunders had been canceled. Later, Lacy and Saunders each came out to the ring
ready to fight. Finally, their bout was called off nonetheless.
But even before that, there was the cancelation of a fight between Hector Camacho Jr. and Ryan Davis,
not that you would’ve known this by checking the event’s website or the bout sheet handed out to media.
No official reason was given, though rumblings among press row and other D.C. boxing insiders said that
Camacho had gotten injured in training camp, was overweight, had shown up in the city anyway and had
even gotten paid some money ahead of time. Another undercard bout, this one between Jarrett Hurd and
Eddie Soto, had also been called off.
There were extended gaps between fights, never mind the significant swaths of empty seats. Daniel Attah
at one point came to the ring, waited for DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley to come out, then returned to his
locker room. It would be quite a while before Attah made his second ring walk of the evening and the
match with Corley actually occurred.
There had been six pro fights listed on the bout sheet, which followed a handful of amateur bouts. Only
three actually happened.

In the first pro fight, local middleweight/super middleweight Demond Nicholson scored a fourth-round
technical knockout over journeyman Dennis Sharpe. Then Corley won an extremely wide unanimous decision
over Attah, putting Attah down five times over the course of the bout.
And right before Henry “Sugar Poo” Buchanan stepped into the ring with Alexander Johnson, it was
announced that Buchanan-Johnson would be the last bout of the evening, even though Lacy-Saunders had not
yet occurred. No official reason had been given. Johnson landed a left cross in the first round that put
Buchanan down for the count. Fans began to file out of the venue. Jeff Lacy soon began to walk to the
ring. He went up the steps and onto the canvas.
“They ain’t told me nothing,” Lacy said to someone at ringside. He paced around the ring. Saunders soon
came out toward the ring. “There’s no fight!” a person at ringside, apparently acting in an official
capacity, yelled out. “Everybody’s out. There’s no fight!” that person yelled. “Let’s go! No fight!” He
yelled to another staffer: “Do not let nobody else through there! That’s it! There ain’t no fight!”
Lacy picked up a microphone, holding it with his still-gloved hands.
“I never said I didn’t want to fight. I’m in the ring to fight,” he said. “I want to let my fans know
because I got a reputation.” He didn’t want people to think that he was to blame for the bout not
happening, he said. “Me and my opponent are right here ready to fight. They didn’t tell us nothing. For
some reason, these seats are starting to be empty. For whatever reason, I don’t know. But we ready to
fight.”
He soon spoke with BoxingScene.com while taking off his gloves and then walking back to his dressing
room: “They had us in the back warming up,” Lacy said. “They kept moving me back from main event to
swing bout to I don’t know what else. But I come to find out everybody leaving, so I came out her to
pay my respects to my fans. They didn’t say why. They still haven’t told me anything.”
Derek Gionta, who was Saunders’ chief second, corroborated this afterward.
“They switched the order of the fights a number of times and moved our locker room once,” Gionta told
BoxingScene.com. There was confusion the entire time. One rumor was that the card had gone over its
time limit and the venue needed to shut down. Gionta was told by a member of the convention center’s
security team that Lacy didn’t want to fight. “I find it hard to believe that Jeff didn't want to fight,”
Gionta said. “Everyone believes it was a money issue.”
That appears to be what it was. The head of the city’s athletic commission told a local matchmaker/
publicist that the fight had been called off because the promoter hadn’t provided the money for the
bout to be paid to the fighters afterward. While the money was there up front for the other matches that
had already taken place, that was not the case for Lacy-Saunders, and so that fight couldn’t be allowed
to go on.
“I didn’t do everything that I’ve done to fight for free,” Lacy said. “That’s the reason why I came,
because they threw money in my face. I lived up to my end of the agreement on the contract. At the end
of the day, I was ready to fight, my opponent was ready to fight, and we come out here to fight, and the
arena was empty.”
This was a card put on GFS Boxing as part of its “Celebrity Weekend of Champions,” which also included a
golf tournament, an awards ceremony, and appearances by Roger and Jeff Mayweather at a gym in suburban
Maryland, where they worked one-on-one with a number of amateur boxers (Floyd Mayweather Sr. had also been
advertised but was not there). Lacy later said he’d been promised $10,000 for the fight with Saunders.
Gionta said Saunders was paid his travel money, which is part of the fighter’s compensation and covers car
rental, gas, food, etc. It’s not much, however.
“The purse, which is a substantial amount more, was not paid to Rayco,” Gionta said. “Looks like they will
go after the promoter's bond to pay his purse. Not sure what the other fighters will do.”
It was another bizarre situation for Lacy, who got stopped in two rounds against Humberto Savigne this past
July, then proceeded to use social media toclaim that the man he’d faced was much bigger than the man who
had been at the weigh-in and must’ve been a brother of Savigne’s who had been substituted in. The 37-year-
old from St. Petersburg, Florida, remains 26-5 with 18 KOs and 1 no contest. Saunders, 40, of Pittsburgh,
remains 23-24-2 with 10 KOs.
“I’ve been in training camp, I just came off a fight, I stayed in training camp. It’s been over two to
three months,” Lacy said. “It goes to show you the business of boxing, how bad it is. It showcased what us
fighters have to deal with behind the curtains. This is the sport I love. I grew up loving the sport. It’s
a pure love that I have for this sport, at the age of seven. And I feel the devil is trying to strip that
away from me.”