Narváez v. Nievas, in the reapertura of the Luna Park

He will be the 13 of July, by the world-wide title of the flies; not fight there from 1987

It was like revivir those distant ones and longed for Buenosairean days. It was enough to cross the threshold of the Luna Park to be with renewed Ring and a pair of gloves hung in the ropes. They symbolized everything. From those nights so commented of Jose Maria Gatica and Alfredo Prada; of the untouchable Nicolino Locche; of the power of Víctor Emilio Galíndez, until those classic ones guarded of Wednesdays and Saturdays that culminated, entered the dawn well, in the bars and pizzerías of Currents, the avenue that never rested…

Ramon Abeldaño and Adolph passed almost 15 years from that fight between Maple Rossi who marked to the aim of the relation between the sport of the fists and the flat noses with the Luna Park. No longer he is Juan Carlos Tito Lectoure , deceased 1° of last March, but his spirit, latent in each corner of the stage of Bouchard and Lavalle, will be homenajeado, the 13 of the next month, with an international meeting of boxing in which the Argentinean Omar Narváez will face, by the title, with the Nicaraguan Adonis Nievas , world-wide champion of the flies of the World-wide Organization of Boxeo (OMB), confirmed yesterday by Esteban Livera, nephew of Lectoure and general manager of the Palace of Deportes, and by the promoter Osvaldo Rivero, who supports it in this company. Company that took as a dream of Lectoure, months before its death, to celebrate the 70 ° anniversary of the Luna Park.

"This does not mean that the stage reopens for boxing with assiduity. One treats, simply, to remember to Tito with the boxing, the sport whom it liked more ", open Livera.

Although it did not want to reveal the amount of the investment, Livera expressed that the costs of the organization will be resolved completely by the company that now leads. "the expenses will be covered if half of the stage is sold, that counts on a capacity for 18,000 spectators", it said.

The combats of semibottom of the meeting, that will start to 20,30, will be carried out by Diego Rocky Giménez and Caesar Leiva, Mariano Carrera and Néstor Casanova and Aladino Alanis and Dionisio Ri'os.

At night of the 13 of July it will have, in addition, an entertainment to all the world-wide champions that along with gave to the Argentina and the projection of a video on the life of Lectoure historical images of the traditional centric scene.

The entrances, that are on sale, oscillate between $ 10 (popular) and $ 140 (Ring-side); they are possible to be acquired in the Luna Park or by Entrance Extra (4324-1010).

All ready one, then, for one night with flavor to old times. A tribute to the passion , as it says the official program. In fact, a tribute to nostalgia.