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Talk about best-kept secrets: Most people don't know that the popular college party bar Giligin's has a second location -- in Thailand.
The Pattaya version has the same owners, the same name and the same tropical theme and Corona beer specials, but with one distinctive addition: whores! Plenty of young Thai prostitutes who, according to the Giligin's Web site, www.
The site features telling pics of the bar's owners -- all protruding tongues and backward baseball caps, clutching their "hand-picked" staff of toyear-olds. In his native Kazakhstan, International Boxing Federation cruiserweight champion Vassily Jirov learned to develop his boxing footwork by being forced to outrace angry police dogs down a narrow hallway. By comparison, facing a pound pugilist in the boxing ring has to seem like a snap.
Sure enough, the self-proclaimed Russian Tiger -- who moved to Scottsdale in after winning a gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics -- has cruised through his unheralded weight division like it's just a preliminary to some anticipated main event. That main event would be either a heavyweight title shot or a step down to take on light-heavyweight king Roy Jones Jr. But, with his unmatched knockout percentage and relentless body-attacking style, Jirov might continue to be a victim of his own success, scaring away opponents unwilling to tangle with a tiger.
