Sports column: Local boxer Sands wins with KO, prepares for next fight

Going into a Feb. 8 bout at St. Paul’s Crowne Plaza in St. Paul, Al Sands of Duluth had a record of 6-1 with six knockouts in six years of boxing. His opponent, JJ Corn, had stats of 47-25-3 and 26 KOs in 28 years of boxing — two years longer than Sands has been on the planet, let alone in a boxing ring.

By: Sarah Packingham, For the Budgeteer News