Man pleads no contest to holding ’Fight Nights’ in Farrell, Pa., garage

SHARON, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man has pleaded no contest to promoting “Fight Nights” between scantily clad women in his garage.

A judge in Mercer County Common Pleas Court sentenced 58-year-old Lawrence Owens, of Farrell, to a year’s probation after Tuesday’s plea.

The Herald of Sharon reports Owens hosted the events in his garage last November, December and January in his Farrell garage.

Owens entered the plea to a charge of illegally promoting a tough man contest.

Owens had previously argued the boxing matches, which took place in a wading pool filled with a small amount of water, amounted to something akin to “mud wrestling” not a tough guy contest, in which combatants try to knock out one another.