No comments on this one please, just reporting here.
We've beaten this subject to death here, and I'm just posting it as reading material.
The guys at RT are well aware of the improvements they needed to make, as evidenced by Blake's comments in this forum.

FYI - I was sitting next to this dude, and talked to him most of the night. He's a nice kid who knows boxing...

From The Paul Simpson Show:


http://www.paulsimpsonshow.com/2009/08/22/the-debacle-at-the-chafitz-arena/


The Debacle at The Chafitz Arena
August 22nd, 2009 by PaulOn Saturday August 22, 2009 professional boxing returned to the Gateway City as Rumbletime Promotions hosted ‘It’s On’ at The Chafitz Arena on the campus of St. Louis University. It was supposed to be the triumphant return of Deandre ‘The Bull’ Lattimore and boxing to St. Louis, but what transpired was an absolute embarrassment to the media, fans and most importantly the powers that be in the sport of boxing! There were many things that took place tonight that didn’t sit well with me. First of all, the event started an hour and a half late. This was probably done on purpose to allow more spectators to get in to the event. By my estimation, there were only 700 people in attendance. The Media (the few of us that were there) and fans were subjected to delay after delay for bizarre reasons such as a late arriving ambulance and a late arriving commissioner. The Ring Announcer for the evening must have had better things to do such as stand outside and smoke a cigarette, instead of being in ring center in time to introduce the fighters for the night’s first bout. Also, during several of the key bouts, this man was actually ‘cheer-leading,’ encouraging the crowd to get excited and make some noise. This was extremely unprofessional behavior! The ‘powers that be’ for some retarded reason decided to have an intermission at 10:15. The announcement was that it was to be a ten minute intermission. No surprise to me, the intermission wound up being about thirty-five minutes. During the intermission came yet another weird occurrence. The National Anthem was not sung at the start of the event (like anyone with reasonable intelligence would have done), but rather somewhere around 10:25 pm!!! With people yawning and probably nodding off to sleep, the feature attraction commenced around 11:50 pm. It featured Deandre ‘The Bull’ Lattimore against Sammy Spakman. Despite a record of 21-19, the thirty-nine year old Sparkman gave Lattimore an extremely spirited fight. Lattimore looked sluggish, was constantly off balance and did not seem to have any snap to his punches. Sparkman was able to hurt Lattimore several times, consistently beat him to the punch and seemed to carry the fight. Going the full ten rounds, the fight wound up going to the judges scorecards. Perhaps it was because the fight took place in Lattimore’s hometown, perhaps it was due to the fact that the event ended well past midnight or perhaps it was the fact that the judges were blind and stupid, Lattimore wound up winning by oddly large margins (one judge had him winning 99-91). I have no clue what fight this person was watching.

The Good Things

Despite the foolishness that everyone was subjected to, there were several good things that did take place. Number One, was the amateur exhibition bout, which was the first bout on the undercard. Aaron Thomas and Kent Cruz provided a spirited bout, showing solid skills. Skyler Thompson and Ryan Davis provided a solid six-round middle weight fight with great back and fourth action. Davis winning by Unanimous Decision. The Third bout of the evening, featured one of the main reasons why I was reporting at his event. It was a fight featuring women, Mayela Perez versus one of the prettiest, toughest and most talented fighters in the sport, in Hollie ‘Hot Stuff’ Dunaway. This bout proved to be a spirited one as well as Perez pressured Dunaway from rounds two through five landing good body shots and stiff right hands. Dunaway won the fight by working behind a good left jab, solid counter-punching and strong right hands. Hollie even took the opportunity to taunt her opponent in round five by standing against the ropes and allowing Perez to fire hooks at her body. Dunaway responded by rotating her torso from side to side and smiling to the crowd! Few, if any of those punches landed. Ryan Coyne ‘The Irish Outlaw’ proved too much for Larry Jarrett, as he pummeled his opponent from the opening bell of the six round cruiserweight fight. Jarrett had his nose broken in round three by a Coyne uppercut, but received more punishment from there. The Co-feature of the main event was another solid bout pitting Alex ‘The Technician’ Bunema against Willie Lee. Lee proved to be a tough test against Bunema, outworking him over the duration of the ten round fight, for the NABF Light Middleweight title fight. Bunema however landed the harder more effective shots and had a good showing, but it wasn’t enough as Willie Lee won the NABF Lt. Middleweight title by a Split Decision.

In Conclusion

One of the main objectives of this event, was to capture the attention of the boxing world, thereby leading to more cards and televised events at the big venues in and around St. Louis. I must say that Rumble Time Promotions (the host promoter) failed miserably to do so! To make St. Louis an attractive city to hold major fights and boxing events, Rumble Time needs to do several things. 1. The events must be better organized, with all personnel performing and acting in a ‘professional manner’ (no cheerleading ring announcers, all athletic commission officials showing up on time, etc.). 2. Every attempt must be made to have more interesting, if not competitive matches. It’s time to select better opponents for Danny Williams, fighters that are capable of going the full eight or ten rounds and provide a moving target. A Good, Young Lightweight, or a Solid Young veteran. The recently terminated Cab Drivers and Unemployed Stockbrokers that he has been knocking out have to go! 3. With a better effort on the part of the State Athletic Commission and The Host Promoter, great attempts should be made to have the event televised. I like most avid boxing fans, want to see HBO, Showtime and ESPN hold events here in St. Louis, but Rumbletime Promotions needs to rethink their strategy in promoting cards.