The weather never will turn, so golfing permanently is out of the question. Poker? Don’t know how to play, though I do now know how to name-drop, thanks to reading Phil Hellmuth’s column. “Walker, Texas Ranger” reruns? If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. I’ve seen more than one. Kansas University baseball? Washed out, again.

For rain-soaked entertainment droughts such as this, a big-time boxing show in Lawrence would be just the tonic to feed the sports fix. One problem: They don’t have those here. Not yet anyway.

“I think there’s a market for boxing in Lawrence,” said Aaron Davis, Kansas Boxing Commissioner and a former basketball player at Wichita State. “Promoters always want to find a big enough venue for a show.”

What about the Holidome?

“I think the Holidome would be perfect,” Davis said. “I would love to see a show in Lawrence, especially with it being a college town. I think we would be doing ourselves a disservice if I didn’t steer some promoters into doing some things in Lawrence.”

For now, the best option involves driving to Mayetta, north of Topeka, to Harrah’s Prairie Band Casino & Resort. Today’s show, which starts at 1 p.m., features three marquee names. David “Strictly Business” Medina (14-1) is billed by the promoter as “the hottest star from Kansas.” Guess where he’s from? You guessed it, Rocky Ford, Colo. Details. He does live and train in Junction City.

Siblings Chantel “The Gorgeous Babe” Cordova (6-0-1) and Marvin Cordova also are on the card. They, too, are from the small town of Rocky Ford. (Some connection to Rocky can always be found on a boxing card, it seems.)

Medina is sensitive about his friend Chantel’s nickname because he fears people won’t take her seriously as a boxer.

“People misunderstand, her grandfather gave her that nickname,” Medina said. “Grandfathers, I guess, can call their granddaughters whatever they want. She’s a great role model and a very technically sound fighter. She doesn’t have a lot of pop, but she’s very good.”

The Gorgeous Babe takes on Melissa Shaffer in the 100-pound division.

Medina’s opponent changed at the last minute. That’s pretty common in the boxing game. To him, the chins have changed, yet the target remains the same.

“I’m more of just a puncher,” Medina said. “I try to knock everybody out. We’re here to fight. Let’s not dance too long. People spend their hard-earned money to come out and watch us. Let’s give them a show. Let’s fight.”

Let’s give them a show in Lawrence someday soon.

“I’ll fight anywhere,” said Medina, who then explained a quality that separates contenders from pretenders. “Anybody can punch. It’s when you get smacked in the face, can you still have the game plan you came into the fight with?”

Professional boxing shows are about more than the 12 rounds of action. They’re about cut men smoothing out battered faces between rounds, ring-card girls walking ever so slowly to soak in the many whistles, ringside photographers craning for the right angle to catch the smashed-in nose at just the right instant, the man in the fedora and pinky ring with the lady in the fur coat on his arm.

Boxing is quite a show. If it came to Lawrence, something tells me it would make a quick return trip.