When we heard that the Golden Gloves were moving back up to San Francisco from the Cow Palace, we were all "sure, that sounds cool", but we didn't really get how awesome it was until we set foot in the Civic Center Friday night. Right away, we want to take our hats off to the entire organization for taking what was, as we said earlier, basically a friends and family event and making it into some fantastic sports entertainment.

In addition to a breathtaking setting, we were excited to see several local luminaries in the audience, including past Golden Glove champion and former professional fighter, pride of the Sunset, "Irish" Pat Lawler and UFC Fighter Josh "The Punk" Thompson.

But enough of our starf**cking. What about the fights? Animal cops, Teamsters, and our constant companion's shiner after the jump!

All photos by Tim Ehhalt