Fight Night cancelled

Fight Night, an amateur boxing night, was canceled Thursday.

Yance Bosen, a USU student and Sigma Chi’s risk manager, said he found out at 11 a.m. Thursday that the university was canceling Fight Night.

Bosen said the fights were cancelled because the university told him the fraternity had not turned in the proper insurance papers.

“I went through a registered gym in Salt Lake which is sanctioned by the Utah Amateur Boxing Association and we signed an agreement that said we were sanctioned by them and USA Boxing,” Bosen said. “We paid around $250. That was faxed to Jerry Workman (USU event manager), and he said that’s not what they needed. We called USA Boxing and three days was the earliest they could fax him the stuff.”

University officials were unavailable for comment at press time.

Bosen said USU officials told him when he originally signed the contract to be able to hold the fight night, they explained what he needed, but Bosen said the officials had originally told him they didn’t need that paper work.

“The guy who’s helping me put it on has organized well over 300 fights and he’s never had a problem like this,” Bosen said.

Bosen said he went to talk to the president’s office about the situation and they called back at about 4 p.m. Thursday.

“They blamed it on my promoter. They said it was because we hadn’t sold enough tickets for him to come to Logan, but that’s completely false because he wasn’t getting paid a cent,” he said. “All our proceeds were going to the Huntsman Cancer Institute. The guy was doing it as a favor because his wife just died of cancer.”

All ticket money will be refunded, but Bosen said 18 fighters were signed up and people were coming to watch from Salt Lake, Idaho and one fighter’s dad and brother were flying in from California. He said he’s frustrated because three months of planning have to be undone and Sigma Chi has had to call all the boxing officials, ushers and other people, all who were volunteering their time, to tell them the fights were canceled.

“What they were doing with the insurance was legitimate, but I don’t feel like they gave us a chance to work it out,” Bosen said. “It’s their prerogative, but I don’t think it’s very good ethics. I really feel like the university did not want (the fights) to happen.”

-dilewis@cc.usu.edu