MMA card scheduled tonight at Yankee Lake

STAFF/WIRE REPORTS

BROOKFIELD — A Mixed Martial Arts fight card will be held tonight at the Yankee Lake ballroom.

The Yankee Lake Brawlroom 15 will have 17 scheduled bouts including two title fights.

Doors open at 6 p.m. and the action starts at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are available at the Yankee Lake Inn or Store and at Dillards in the Southern Park Mall.

Meeting for the bantamweight title will be Rob Miller of Greenville and Gary Taylor of Sharon.

Also, Mark Wiant takes on Adam Milstead for the light heavyweight crown.

For the complete fight card visit yankeelakebrawlroom.com.

Golf Dome boxing

GIRARD SEmD On Oct. 10 there will be an Olympic-style amateur boxing show at the Golf Dome.

On the card will be 12 bouts.

The event opens at 5:30 p.m. and the first bout starts at 7 p.m.

For tickets or information call (330) 717-4201 or (330) 509-9327.

Among others, Kelly Pavlik is scheduled to appear to greet the crowd.

Proceeds will benefit the Austintown Colts Youth Football organization and the Downtown Boxing Club.

Klitschko vs. Arreola

LOS ANGELES — Vitali Klitschko kept the memory of his last fight at Staples Center in his mind throughout the six years it took him to get back there against Chris Arreola tonight.

Klitschko led Lennox Lewis on every scorecard of that bout in June 2003, but a cut over his eye forced the fight’s stoppage midway through, leaving Klitschko pleading for more time to finish. On the verge of asserting dominance in the heavyweight division, Klitschko’s body betrayed him — an all-too-familiar theme in his otherwise impressive career.

“It was the most frustrating time, but also the best,” Klitschko said. “Because I learned that to be a champion, it takes more than hard work. Sometimes you have to have luck as well.”

The experience drove Klitschko (37-2, 36 KOs) through nearly four years away from the sport, when a series of injuries repeatedly threatened to stop his career for good. Arreola (27-0, 24 KOs) weighed in at 251 pounds Thursday.