Tales from the barbershop;Bow to the King!

Pandemonium has erupted inside Barkley Center last Saturday when Ryan Garcia landed his missile-like left hook and dropped Devin Haney on the seat of his pants in the seventh round of their championship fight. Easily influenced by others ,specifically experts, who didn’t even believe that this fight would ever take place,I decided not to take a journey to Brooklyn for this event. Instead , I jumped up in the living room as if my butt was on fire and started yelling at the TV , meanwhile scaring the hell out of two little puppies that my lady friend brought for the viewing. Bunn and Pickle , two little wiener dogs felt the spirit of the night and joined in barking hysterically…

Boy, oh boy, I really wish I was in Brooklyn talking boxing with fans and pundits till wee hours of the night. Instead I was home thrilled to no end , not able to fall asleep reliving the excitement of the night in my head .

I decided it was time to visit my favorite Barber shop in Glendale on Sunday morning.

Time stood still as I walked in. Dave the Barber was loudly clicking his sharp scissors on young men’s curly brown hairs while Al the Barber was leathering Big Steve’s massive bald head. Downtown Ronnie Brown was singing the blues

“All I wanna do is fuss and fight, all I wanna do is stir madness in the middle of the night , They say I’m crazy but at least I don’t bite ,All I wanna do is fuss and fight .”

“Is this Ryan Garcia’s new theme song?” I asked crashing on big brown barber chair .

“As far as I am concerned,” replied Downtown Ronnie Brown:” That boy can do whatever the hell he wants. That boy gives me a Boner and it’s not because he is pretty. It is because that boy can really fight. He turned the whole boxing world upside down Saturday night.”



“ Slow down blues man,” jumped in Dave theBarber:” That boy is all the way crazy. He ain’t nothing but trouble.”

“Crazy!” Exclaimed Ronnie Brown:” Is he crazier than Mike Tyson wanting to eat peoples children or is he crazier than Mayorga smoking at the weight in?”

“ They are all crazy,” concluded Al the Barber:” if getting hit on the noggin is the way you make a living, you cannot be normal.”

“What irks me the most,” reflected big Steve, while inspecting his shiny bald head in the mirror:” Is how All of these so-called experts, never give that boy a chance. Especially Tim Bradley, who proclaimed that he would quit his job if Ryan won the fight. “

“Please, don’t get me started on this subject,” urged downtown, Ronnie Brown:” wasn’t that Bradley kid a former fighter?”

“Yes indeed,” echoed Al the Barber:”He used to fight as a junior welterweight, just like those boys on Saturday night. Unfortunately, he ate his way all the way up to the heavyweight . Look at that mug. He’s so full of himself, as if he invented boxing.”

“ But it’s not his weight that’s the issue here,” countered Dave the Barber:” It’s that Russian boy that beat all the sense out of him, what was his name ,Provodnikov. We all know that anything could happen in the ring. Bradley should know it better than most. All he has to do is remember his first fight with Manny Pacquiao. “

“Forget Bradley,” exclaimed Ronnie Brown:”King Ry told him how he felt afterwards. I want to talk about Ryan and his explosiveness and five knockdowns and how he electrified the crowd. That boy is on fire.”

“ Step aside, step aside or you might get burned,” cried out Al the Barber:” or better yet that boy might explode all on his own considering how he’s living.”

“ In words of late Roger Mayweather,”  cut in Ronnie Brown:” you don’t know shit about Boxing.”