Man hospitalized after fight at Club Axis

Lawrence police are investigating an early morning fight at a central Lawrence nightclub where at least one person was injured.

Sgt. William Cory, a police spokesman, said a 23-year-old man was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and later flown to Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan.

Police were called to the fight around 1 a.m. today in the parking lot of Club Axis, 821 Iowa.

Officers are still investigating and have not released much information, but Cory said the fight was between “a patron and possibly bar employees.”

The injured man was believed to be a patron, Cory said.

Police have made no arrests.

Officers have responded to trouble at the nightclub a couple of different times earlier this year.

A Kansas City, Kan., man and a Lawrence man were arrested and charged with hitting and kicking a man found outside on May 13.

A Lawrence man was arrested April 28 for reckless driving and other charges when two police officers had to jump out of the way of his vehicle as it left the nightclub’s parking lot. Officers had ordered the man to leave the parking lot.

Club Axis opened earlier this year. It is on the site of the former Moon Bar, where former Kansas University basketball player J.R. Giddens was cut in a melee outside the building in May 2005.