The Little Apple

Most of us came up on Friday night for the Borderline Assault bout against the Minnesota Rollergirls. For those of you stuck at home, Go to the B2 Networks website. It's only $9 and the proceeds go to Madison's Girl Neighborhood Power. You can sign up now and log in 10 minutes before the bout starts (7:30pm)

After arriving at Wet Spot's house, a few of us went to a party at CleoSPLATra's house. On the way we heard about the "Basement Boxing" she has at her house. If you want to fight (with gloves and headgear) you weigh in, get your picture taken and then challenge someone around the same size. Sure enough, when we got there people were already signing up on the fight board. Going down the basement they had a carpeted area with foam padding taped up along the wall. They had all the gear including mouthguards. After seeing a couple of matches, our very own Reverend Riot took the ring. He came out swinging and after a flurry of punches between them, he managed to knock the other guy down. Unfortunately, during the exchange his nose got cut open and started bleeding. Even though he was just getting warmed up they had to call the fight. He looks a lot meaner with a bandaid across his nose. Should be just enough to intimidate the other refs tonight.

On Saturday morning, everyone got together for breakfast at the Herkimer. It was great to see the Minnesota skaters again. Even though this will be our third bout against them in 2 months, the two leagues have friendships that go back to the early days of derby. No matter what happens tonight, the afterparty will be a festive occasion.

More to come later.