By Elisinio Castillo

Friends became enemies last Friday in Eureka, Florida. Cuban boxers, junior middleweight Inocente Fiss (16-0, 10KOs) and cruiserweight Pedro Rodriguez (16-1, 13KOs), were involved in a violent altercation. The two boxers began to argue in the apartment they both share, when Fiss attacked Rodriguez with a machete. Rodriguez suffered cuts to his right arm and he was hispitalized, where he underwent surgery to repair ligaments and tendons. Rodriguez claims Fiss came home drunk and began to argue with him over money, according to George Ebro.

"It is very sad what has happened,'' said Carlos Rodriguez, president of Dream Team Boxing, the company that promotes the boxers. "The saddest part is that they were friends, shared the same roof, and to top it off we had plans for them to fight on November 26 on the show being staged by Golden Boy Promotions [at the BB &T Center].''