Australian boxing troupe keeps on swinging

BIRDSVILLE, Australia - When Fred Brophy bangs a drum on the floodlit stage outside his boxing tent, the large crowd gathered in front of him falls silent in rapt attention.

Sporting a cowboy hat and a silky bright-red shirt, the tall and weathered 67-year-old looks every bit the showman.

Brophy runs a boxing troupe - the last in Australia and one of the few left worldwide - traveling to outback towns where someone's always up for a fight.