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Have you ever found yourself in a boxing-starved city and can’t believe that the only way you can indulge your favorite past time is to turn on the boob tube and watch the latest prima Donnas in their latest title-fights? What about the journeymen, the trial horses and the ham-n-eggers? What about the heart of the sport? What about the crowd noise, the sweat and blood flying, the roller coaster of emotion that can only come from being at a boxing card in person? Did you ever think about being the next Don King or Bob Arum or, at the very least, bringing boxing to your town so you can always have it around and share it with those who have yet to experience the chaotic bliss that is a live fight? That question is what inspired me to call up Jake Donovan, who just finished promoting his first boxing card, and ask him what he’s learned from it all; and if he would be willing to share the lessons he’s learned from pushing the school of hard knocks with all of the other boxing junkies out there. [details]