Hill Hammers Harris!

    Heavyweight Eugene Hill of Dickinson, Texas pounded down Joseph Harris of Memphis, Tennessee  in a scheduled six-round bout.

See round one below!

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      Hill weighed in at 252 pounds and he brought a record of 17-1 with 14 KO's. "Mean Gene" was coming off a controversial eight-round split decision win over Zack Page in August in Houston.

 Harris weighed in at 226 lbs. and came in at 10-9 with 7 KO's, having most recently lost to Andres Taylor in Maryland in August.

 But Harris had won four fights in a row prior to that, and he was tailor-made for Hill, in that he would stand still and attempt to slug with "Mean Gene".

It was clear early on this would be a losing effort Harris as he tried to beat the much too powerful Hill at his own game. Harris took a knee from the beating in round two.

See the rest of round two below!

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Hill continued blasting away at Harris, who was clearly a very strong athlete in his own right, but nowhere near the league of "Mean Gene".

    Harris continued to deflate in round three, being wobbled by a left hook. As the two fighters leaned in to attempt to press the advantage over one another throughout the match, it could be heard that they were talking to one another, although exactly what they were saying was not discernible at ringside.

"He was telling me I hit hard", Hill said with a smile after the match.

Harris' corner motioned to Referee Ronnie Ralston to stop the bout at 1:23 of the fourth round.

"Stingray" Sticks Primero!

Former WBO Flyweight Champion Rayonta "Stingray" Whitfield of Augusta, Georgia took on Evaristo Primero of El Paso in an eight-round bout.

    Whitfield brought a record of 21-1 with 11 KO's and was coming off a 10th round TKO loss to Omar Andres Narvaez in losing the WBO title in Argentina in February of 2009.

Primero came in at 14-21-1 with 7 KO's and had lost seven of this last eight fights, including an eight-round unanimous decision loss to Whitfield in Augusta in 2006.

But Primero would prove to be a surprisingly difficult and cagey fighter, lasting the entire eight rounds and landing several good shots on Whifield in each round.

 See Round Two!

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Primero ripped Whitfield with several solid body shots in round three, then switched up and demonstrated good movement in round four.

Whitfield landed the jab from long range and them hammered Primero with uppercuts.

See round eight below!

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One judge scored the bout 80-71, another 80-72, and a third 78-74, all for Whitfield, giving him the unanimous decision.

Nguyen Whips Ledesma!!

    Featherweight Dat "Be Dat" Nguyen of Vero Beach, Florida fought a bloody eight-round war with Andres Ledesma of Colombia in one of the best fights to be held in Houston in recent memory, possibly the best since Christy Martin/Valerie Mahfood at the Reliant Center in July of 2008!

See round one below!

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      A native of Bien Hoa, Vietnam, training under the guidance of former world champion Buddy McGirt, the 26-year-old Nguyen, now 17-1-0 (6 KO’s), battled Andres Ledesma of Miami 15-15-1 (10 KO’s), in a scheduled eight round bout.

Nguyen thrilled Houston fight fans on May 28th with an action packed eight-round decision over Carlos Hernandez at the Arena Theatre, following that up with a unanimous decision win over Noe Lopez Jr. on August 22nd, in front of a huge crowd at the Pala Casino Spa and Resort in Southern California, running his unbeaten streak to five.

Ledesma had lost his last three fights, most recently a 1st round TKO stoppage at the hands of Carlos Ivan Velasquez of Fort Worth on May 8th.

The 29-year-old Ledesma did engage in a back and forth slugfest with two time world champion Jesus Chavez prior to being stopped in the ninth round in a bout at the Toyota Center in September 2008.

 Ledesma would prove to be an excellent match for Nguyen as the fighters hammered each other back and forth for eight rounds.

A left hook sent Ledesma to the canvas early in the second round.

See the rest of round two below!

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The fighters maintained a punishing pace for the entire eight rounds.

Each man would engage in a few seconds of positioning, after which Nguyen would often launch in first with a solid and accurate combination to the head.

But several times Ledesma caught Nguyen coming in, or countered with vicious hooks and uppercuts.

 Ledesma suffered a cut over his left eye in the fifth round, and Nguyen would take a nasty cut in the mouth in the sixth.

 Ledesma became more successful in the seventh and eighth rounds.

See round seven below!  

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The action continued into the final round!

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One judge scored the fight 79-72, another had it 78-73, and the third saw it at 80-71, all for Nguyen. HoustonBoxingScene.com scored it 78-73 for Nguyen.

 

Noons Pounds Perez! Middleweight KJ Noons of Houston faced Julio "El Cubano" Perez of Mission, Texas.  Noons, also a world champion mixed martial artist, brought a record of 10-2 with 5 KO's, coming off a unanimous six-round decision win over Randy Pogue in California in August. Noons dominated the fight from the outset, blasting the durable Perez with combinations to the body and head. The wild-swinging Perez nailed Noons with several looping bombs, but they seemed to have little effect. Perez's left eye began to close in round four as he absorbed more and more punishment. See Video of round five below!.. Noons called out Chase "White Tiger" Shields of Houston after winning, saying he wanted to fight Shields in the Bayou City. All three judges scored the bout 60-54 for Noons.

Garcia Wallops Walton! Welterweights David "El Gordo" Garcia of Oxnard, Calfornia, (right, above) and Artis Walton of Amarillo were both making their pro debuts. Garcia opened up landing left hooks to the face, while Walton connected with a couple of right hands to the head. A big right hand hurt Walton near the end of the round as the two entered into a spectacular exchange. In the next round a right hand from Garcia sent Walton the canvas and the referee stopped the contest at :37 seconds of round two. Garcia with Promoter Chet Koerner Contreras Crushes Boyd!     Undefeated Junior Welterweight Francisco Contreras of Irvington, New Jersey quickly dispatched Ronald Boyd of Washington, D.C. Contreras, the WBC European Champion, came in at 10-0 with 10 KO's while Boyd brought a record of 6-8 with 2 KO's. Contreras knocked Boyd down three times and the referee stopped the contest at 2:10 of the first round. .