Saturday Night Fights, Part 1

Jenna Versus Amanda, Round 1

Amanda's birthday was approaching last year while I was in Florida for two Springsteen shows. Unfortunately I was in Tampa and missed this event, but I was laughing my ass off a the hotel after the show watching this online. It was when I returned to their house on Sunday I got to discuss "Boxing Night."

It all started when Stacy asked the other kids what they should get her while she was in town that weekend as a birthday gift. After careful thought and consideration, Calvin said, "Boxing gloves."

All the other kids agreed it was a perfect gift.

Scott had an old set of boxing gloves in the garage and occasionally the kids would get them down, but because they had only one set of gloves, one person had the right glove and the other had the left. With Amanda's birthday approaching, it was the perfect gift. This way two people could each have a set and they could actually box!

They live in a nice gated community in Florida and my sister decided the best venue for the Saturday night fights was out in front of the house where all the neighbors in the nice community could also watch (and they really did stop their cars to watch as they drove by.) You can take my sister out of Fern Creek, but you can't take Fern Creek out of my sister. I told her that the community will move the gate so their house is on the outside if they are not careful.

Amanda is the middle child of Scott's three girls. Jenna is the oldest and Chloe is the youngest. She is the most athletic of the three playing fast pitch softball, but Jenna was still bigger than her and Chloe was almost her size.  And as the videos show, she's got a goofy sense of humor as she cracked several jokes while getting pummeled.

For the first boxing match Amanda (black headgear) took a pounding just for the opportunity to hit her older sister Jenna (red headgear) with a couple good punches.



Scott refereed the boxing match between his daughters and Amanda is making jokes right off the bat. A pickup truck slowly passes by just 17 seconds into the video and I can only wonder what they were thinking. Jenna smacks the silly out of Amanda early on and Amanda still had not realized she bit off more than she could chew.

Amanda is a trip. Scott's yelling instructions to her and Amanda finally screams, "Shut up!" It can be difficult when sparring to follow someone's instructions. and she also got lucky that Jenna did not connect with the left at 1:33 in the video.

Jenna Versus Amanda, Round 2




In the second round, Amanda's talking trash, saying Jenna's going down!

As Scott starts the fight, she can't stop laughing because she knows Jenna's gonna smack her down again.

Jenna tags her at 1:31 bringing laughter from everyone.

The round concludes as a car approaches the boxing ring.