When you come to the Toughman boxing event tonight and Saturday nights at Logan you see the finished product.

You see the ring, the floor seats in place and all of the sound and light equipment.

What you don't see is all of the people who work behind the scenes to make it happen.

"They do a tremendous job," West Virginia Toughman promoter Jerry Thomas said. "The Logan event takes about 150 people to manage, produce and operate. That's from the ring crew to the security to the ticket takers to the ticket sellers to the doctors, medics, officials and the people who handle the fighters and tape the gloves. We also have people who screen the fighters, handle the advertising and answer the phone calls and e-mails. It takes a lot of people to produce this event. The event itself is the fun part. We work two or three months prior to the event to get everything together. But it comes together nicely."

A lot people are essential to making the Toughman event work without a hitch.

"We deal with a lot of the same people like Roger Bryant of the Logan Emergency Ambulance Service," Thomas said. "Roger's been involved with every event in Logan that we've had. We also have Dr. Kenny Sells who has been a fight doctor from 12 to 15 years."

Former Toughman champions Scott Allred and Billy Fox will be the ring officials this weekend.

"Some of the officials are former Toughman champions," Thomas said. "A good example is Scott Allred from Julian in Boone County. He was known as the