Pit Fighting
October, 2000
John Lober and Izzy Johnson size each other up, two panthers wearing black shorts, fingerless padded gloves and wrestling shoes. Lober, a.k.a. the Machine, has his nickname tattooed across his stomach in four-inch-high letters. Johnson endures eight hours of ring work per day and has fists the size of grapefruit. Lober and Johnson--trained in multiple martial arts--can inflict horrendous pain. They circle each other in the ring--an octagon in a southern California bingo pit. They are breaking th...
