Rob Font may have been fighting in his home state of Massachusetts when he faced Andre Soukhamthath in April of 2011, but you wouldn’t have guessed it by the amount of people that showed up to cheer on his Rhode Island-based opponent in their amateur bout at the Holiday Inn Grand Ballroom in Mansfield.“He had a huge following and the kid would sell a ridiculous amount of tickets,” Font said of Soukhamthath. “I was the underdog and I wasn’t even supposed to be in this type of fight and it was nuts. He had these shirts made up, and it was just a sea of red when I wa … Read the Full Article Here
Font used to playing bad guy in opponent’s hometown
Rob Font may have been fighting in his home state of Massachusetts when he faced Andre Soukhamthath in April of 2011, but you wouldn’t have guessed it by the amount of people that showed up to cheer on his Rhode Island-based opponent in their ama…