BOSSIER CITY, La. – It won’t feature a multi-million dollar purse or a global broadcast audience, but the rivalry at the upcoming “Battle of the Badges” event is generating plenty of championship-level trash talk.
Local firefighters and law enforcement officers from DeSoto, Bossier, and Caddo parishes will square off Sept. 12 at the Live Casino & Hotel, trading their duty gear for boxing gloves to raise money for charity.
While the primary mission is supporting the “I’m Still Me” summer burn camp for children, the cross-town rivalry between the men in red and the boys in blue is as intense as any main event…