Zbikowski Wins Pro Debut in 49 seconds

[Zen]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Tommy Zbikowski, a third-team All-America at safety at Notre Dame, made his professional boxing debut with a 49-second, first-round knockout of the totally outclassed Robert Bell at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.

Not bad for a pro debut. :thumbsup:

[bigmarc27]

I don't have a problem with him fighting, but I don't understand how he can get away with that and Drew Tate (Iowa QB) can't claim a prize he won in a golf tourney.

If you haven't heard, he hit a hole in one that had a prize attached to it. If he had accepted, he would've lost his last year of eligibility.

:headscratch:

I don't see difference enough between the two to have one be okay and the other not... If anything, the boxing is a "pro" debut so I could see it being worse in their eyes.

[Zen]

I don't have a problem with him fighting, but I don't understand how he can get away with that and Drew Tate (Iowa QB) can't claim a prize he won in a golf tourney.

If you haven't heard, he hit a hole in one that had a prize attached to it. If he had accepted, he would've lost his last year of eligibility.

:headscratch:

I don't see difference enough between the two to have one be okay and the other not... If anything, the boxing is a "pro" debut so I could see it being worse in their eyes.

Check to see if the hole-in-one prize was attached to a corporate sponsership spot or something. Tom is allowed to be a pro in a different sport as long as he doesn't do endorsements or anything extra like that. Which sounds stingy but it does makes sense. He wouldn't be endorsing the product as the boxer with the 1-0 record. No, he'd be endorsing it as Tom Zbikowski, Notre Dame safety who also boxes as a pro. It's be like Geena Davis doing commericals as an Olympic-hopeful archer. She isn't doing the ads as a failed archer, but as Geena Davis, actress who's good at archery.

Tom could collect the money because it was being paid to play the sport (the definition of being a "pro"). I bet Drew Tate could collect the prize money at the end of the tourny if he placed. But the hole-in-one prize was probably the SUBWAY HOLE-IN-ONE PRIZE, requiring him to appear in front of a subway logo to accept the SUBWAY prize, etc.

Just a guess.