Just the Right Hook

Counterclockwise from left, Richard Rodriguez, Shyela Merritt, Tina Barth and her husband, Greg Barth, join a large, rowdy crowd in cheering on amateur boxers during Fight Night at the Lucky Lady bar on a Thursday in July. The weekly summer fight series, hosted by the bar and head refereed by Francis Sargent, draws the biggest crowds of the week to the venue on Farmington Road in West Peoria. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR