Stanislav Tišer

“Well, awesome. Simply everyone wanted to box in Lucerna. Every boxer wanted to box there – it was the Mecca of box. An awesome place, sold out, plenty of people and it was even allowed to smoke inside. There were lights above the ring, smoke all around, awesome, people cheering hard. They stood on tables, balconies – everywhere – sitting on stairs, standing. Sold out, a perfect atmosphere.”

“Sometimes I was pondering over whether it’s right. But I only did it for a short time. On the other hand, I thought – if the Japanese or a German guy comes here, they change a hundred marks and live here for a week as kings. But us, we need to work terribly long to earn that much. But he earns so much money, comes here – okay, he may become 200 marks shorter but he still has the other 800 if he brought a thousand – and can live here as a king. Usually, they didn’t even report. They came for four, five days and returned home. So this is how I saw it. We never tricked any local person, only the foreigners who were in the money. Most of those who came here had it, you know.”