Gloves up, mouth guards in and helmet on their head.
That’s what the amateur boxers at the Carbon boxing club’s Roar! The Mane Event had on Saturday night.
The event, took place at the Carbon curling rink as part of the Carbon Lion’s Club Sports Weekend.
Jon Ohlhauser, who started the Carbon boxing club and boxes out of the Grizzly Cage in Calgary was the main event of the evening. He was up against Eiad Khateb from Dynamite club, also in Calgary.
Ohlhauser said, “I didn’t do as well as I wanted to. I did very well the first round. It went great. Then, in the second round I did a little bit of a strategy and it wasn’t working so I stepped out of it, and as I stepped out, I tripped over his foot and he caught me with a right hand and down I went. They ruled it a knock out.”
“It just demonstrates that anything can happen,” Ohlhauser told the Mail. “You really have to be on your game 100 per cent of the time so that you can avoid those types of things.”
Carbon was well represented though, with three boxers participating in the event from the club.
Julian Cardinal faced Michael Roberts of Spruce Grove in the senior novice 115 lbs bout. Roberts took the win with a judge’s unanimous decision.
Ohlhauser said Cardinal did very well, despite the loss. “We were proud and he was excited to have done as well as he did,” he said.
Brandon Lewis represented Carbon in the Senior Novice Sparring – 210 bout against Colin DesLaurier from the Grizzly Cage and Sandy Brown took on Jessica Davis of Lethbridge in the pre-event sparring.
Ohlhauser said he was, “thrilled” with the way the day turned out. “We had a great group of volunteers who pitched in. Boxing Alberta was impressed since this was our first attempt at hosting something like this.”
He said Boxing Alberta’s comments were that, “it went very smoothly and was well done.”
Ohlhauser said he wishes he had won but said, “I tell my guys that I coach, you never lose you either win, or you learn. We don’t use the word lose, so I will just learn from this.
