LESSON FROM THE NELSONS
Being the occasional insomniac – no, I’m lying – being a habitual insomniac, I was flipping channels the other day when I stumbled across something on a random channel that almost knocked me off my knock-off couch. Showing on KOTV was a truly memorable Azumah Nelson fight from decades ago. I felt a tsunami of memories flooding my mind and I remembered exactly where I was when that particular fight aired live (yes, I know I’m old school). That was the era when GBC-TV hadn’t been funkified to GTV. Transmission started at about 16:00 every weekday and 10:00AM on weekends. They brought “transmission to a close” at midnight, every night. The Azumah Nelson fight was at 05:00AM. What that meant was that the station will bring the fight live to the nation and after the fight the personnel – together with their Abraham Lincoln-period machines – will go to sleep again, and resume broadcast at 10:00AM. I was a little tyke with no fancy-ass alarms on a smart phone. I did have a JJ Raw...