Otis Griffin, Yusaf Mack "Play It to the Bone" this Friday

IBF eliminator this Friday between Otis Griffin and Yusaf Mack with the winner getting a shot at 175-pound champ Tavoris Cloud.

Griffin, Mack play it to the bone
by Mark Ortega

In boxing, they say friends don't make for good fights.

This Friday, light heavyweights Otis “Triple OG” Griffin [23-6-2, 9 KOs] and Yusaf Mack [28-3-2, 17 KOs], friends for a number of years, will be looking across the ring at each other with a IBF world title shot being the spoils to the winner. What makes this fight different from many other clashes amongst friends is that neither man is already at the top of the sport.

Consider this fight a real life version of the 1999 boxing comedy “Play It to the Bone”, which starred Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson as fringe contenders who trained out of the same gym and were given the opportunity to fight each other for a shot at the world title.

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