“If a guy used to be a neo-Nazi and has a big swastika on his back and can’t take it off, what are they going to do, not let him fight?”
Thus rages Eric Amgar of GoldenPalace.com, an online casino that likes to etch its logo in henna tattoos on boxers’ backs. The source of his indignation: the Nevada Athletic Commission’s unanimous vote last week to ban such tattoos in NAC-sponsored bouts.
The NAC—the same group that won’t let Mike Tyson fight again in Nevada—was none too pleased to see Golden Palace-inscribed boxers Leonard Dorin and Bernard Hopkins in the ring.
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