Filed under: Featured Videos , News , Videos (This story originally appeared on lohud.com , a fellow Gannett site.) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – At 6:50 p.m., as 14-year-old Cecilia Guida, a Brewster High sophomore, rehearsed the national anthem in a stairway off the stage area where Saturday night’s athletes stretched, got their hands taped and received last-minute instructions, Michael Kulp was scurrying around Westchester County Center, looking for another 125-pound MMA fighter. Michael Lopez, a former All-Section wrestler from Brewster High, was all ready to go but lost his opponent, whose mother had died earlier in the day. Boxing promoter Don King might not have such a life.
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Far from pro, but MMA and other bouts draw large New York crowd – MMA Junkie