Headed to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL this past weekend to cover the Boxing after Dark card for HBO, and finally got to try a remote angle I've been working on for sometime. The corner...
I mounted a camera on the back of the turnbuckle of a neutral corner and used the ropes to frame the image. I attempted this in Vegas in the beginning of the month with my assistant Al Powers, and after hours in the arena, we failed to get it to work because of the HBO slo-mo cam catching our lens. We then mounted the camera directly on top of the HBO cam, and it would move with the slo-mo cam, but then the boom mic was picking up the shutter, so it was scrapped all together... (see below)
Anyway, long story short, on the BAD cards there is no slo-mo cam which gave me clearance to raise the camera up for the shot. About a half-hour the Florida Commission asked me to move it back farther from the ring, so we made a quick change, and it may have improved the angle a bit. Mixed results the first time out, and I'll make a few changes (ie. raise it higher still) before the next HBO card in June. I think it's a shot that has potential. Here is another example of a shot that may just work from this angle...jubilation!
Anyway, onto the fights, Andre Berto defeated Juan Urango in the main event. The fight was a lackluster affair, but Berto dominated on the cards and deserved the win, even if he didn't excite. In the co-feature, contender Kermit Cintron jump-started his career with a big win over unbeaten prospect Alfredo Angulo. Cintron used good movement and combinations, throwing over 1000 punches in the bout and consistently bouncing right hands off Angulo, like this one:
Thanks to my assistant Louis LaPorte for his help throughout the night.
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