Martirosyan
Destroys Division!
SSuper Welterweight Vanes
"Nightmare" Martirosyan overwhelmed Alexis Division of
Miami, Florida.
Division, who was a member of
the 2004 U.S. Olympic team, clearly outclassed Division, who
brought a record of 16-5 with 13 KO's.
Martirosyan went right to
work in the scheduled six-round bout, landing big right hand
bombs to the head of Division, who came back with a few
shots to the face of Martirosyan.
Late in round one
Martirosyan blasted Division with a right hand to the eye
which clear hurt Division, who fell to the canvas and looked
toward his corner with uncertainty, the look of someone who
has concluded they no longer wish to be in that particular
ring at that particular time.
And so it was for Division,
as the round came to a close and his corner informer the
referee that the fighter did not wish to continue.
Martirosyan improves to 15-0
with 11 KO's.
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Mendez Munches Armenta!
Featherweight Argenis
Mendez of Brooklyn worked over the more experienced
Martin Armenta of Sinaloa, Mexico. Wearing the
colors of his native Puerto Rico, Mendez used his
height and reach advantage, as well as superior
speed and skill, to punish "El Toluco" for four
nearly rounds.
Armenta, who brought
a record of 11-14-3 with 7 KO's, stayed active
throughout the fight, but he never seemed to have
any really mean intentions on his punches .
As a result, Mendez
pounded him with head and body shots for three
rounds, and in the fourth, a left hook badly hurt
and wobbled Armenta. At that point his corner
mercifully stepped in to put a stop to the abuse,
and the bout was over at 1:05 of the fourth round.
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Flattens Rudolph!
Heavyweight Bobby "El Jefe" Flores of Houston beat
up on John Rudolph of Kansas City.
Rudolph, who weighed in at 214 lbs., did his best to
survive against the massive Flores, who tipped the
scales at a whopping 355 lbs.
But Rudolph lacked the skills to endure El Jefe's
stampede-like attack.
Rudolph tried to move and stay away as best he
could, but he could not get far enough away from
Flores's thunderous power.
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A big shot from Flores ended the contest at 2:03 of
the first round.
Flores
improves to 6-1 with 5 KO's, while Rudolph falls to
0-3.
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Velardez Gouges
Garcia!!!
Flyweight Jonathan "Boneyard
Baby" Velardez of Cleveland, Texas remains
undefeated after hammering Jose Manuel Garcia for
four straight rounds.
Velardez opened with
some big body shots, using his aggressiveness and
superior power to dominate his opponent.
Garcia tried to fire
back and did land some solid shots in each round,
but the punches seemed to have little effect on
Velardez.
Garcia landed some of
his best punches in round three and Velardez
actually seemed to be tiring a little in that round,
perhaps a little frustrated because he had knocked
out all four of his previous opponents. But the "Boneyard
Baby" finished the fight strong, landing easily
throughout round four, and hammering away on Garcia
at the closing bell.
Velardez improves to
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Super
Lightweight contender "Vicious" Victor Ortiz ripped
into the more experienced Emmanuel Clottey for ten
rounds.
Ortiz (19-1-1, 14 KO's)
appeared to be taking a big step up in class but had little
trouble with Clottey, whose primary problems could have
included ring rust, in light of the fact that he had only
fought three times in the past two years.
Ortiz went right to work,
landing combinations to the body and head beginning in round
one.
Clottey's corner was telling
him to let his hands go more and to try to back Ortiz up,
possibly because Ortiz is essentially a flat-footed,
straight-ahead fighter, who may not be used to trying to
defend himself while he's backing up.
But Ortiz had too much power
for Clottey. Ortiz would land multiple combinations to the
body and head during rounds four and five.
Clottey began fighting with a
sense or urgency in round six, probably realizing that he
had lost the first five rounds.
While Clottey landed some
left hooks in the middle rounds, Ortiz continued to bore
straight in and land solid shots.
The referee deducted two
points from Clottey for holding in round eight, but
the deductions would have no meaning.
In round ten, with with Ortiz
chasing a Clottey in survival mode, Ortiz landed a solid
left to the chin which sent Clottey down.
Ortiz knocked Clottey down a
second time and the referee stopped the contest at 2:59 of
the tenth round. Clottey falls to 24-8 with 14 KO's.
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Osuna Outslugs Solis!!
In the
best fight of the evening outside of the main event,
"Mighty" Marcelino (Marty) Osuna of Houston faced the
seemingly maniacal Martin Solis of Dallas.
Osuna was coming off a split decision loss to Justo
Vallecillo of San Antonio in Pasadena, Texas on June 9th.
Solis brought a record of 0-3, but he opened round one with
a crazed assault, firing multiple frenzied combinations to
the body and head of Osuna.
The The onslaught backed
Osuna up, who flashed a brief look of confusion, regained
his composure, and began ripping off shots of his own.
Over the next four rounds what would take place would be not
just a battle of strength, speed and skill, but what to
fight fans was no less than a beautiful test of wills
between the two men, as the momentum of the match see-sawed
back and fourth throughout. Each man landed multiple
combinations to the body and head of the other.
The
southpaw Osuna repeatedly landed his chopping right hook to
the side of Solis's head, and executed a punishing body
attack as well.
A left hook from Solis knocked out Osuna's mouthpiece about
one second before the closing bell, and in a fight that
could have gone either way, one judge scored the bout a draw
at 38-38, while the other two judges scored the bout 39-37
for Osuna, giving him the majority decision.
Osuna improves to 5-1 with
two KO's.
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"White Tiger" Claws "Madman"!
Super Welterweight Chase "White Tiger" Shields
racked up another win against a marginal opponent.
Shields, (24-1-1, 13 KO's) faced Mike "Madman"McGuire
of Topeka, Kansas (5-18-1, 2 KO's).
Shields began landing solid shots early against the
awkward McGuire, although for much of the first
round the "Madman" tried to be aggressive against
Shields and did land a few punches of his own.
A Shields right sent McGuire down in the second.
McGuire retaliated with a nice right hand
uppercut to the head, but another 1-2 blast from the
"White Tiger" dropped McGuire again.
ShShields
continued the pounding through round three and into
early round four, when the referee stopped the
contest at :31 seconds into the fourth round.
Shields improves to 24-1-1 with 13 KO's!
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"Dynamite"
Blasts Jackson!
Heavyweight
Willie "Dynamite" Jackson of Beaumont, Texas
faced the surprisingly strong, yet sometimes
comical Maron "Homicide" Jackson of Kansas
City, Kansas.
Jackson
(0-2-2) offered little in the way of actual
boxing skill, yet seemed to possess enough
raw strength to remain a threat to Edwards
(3-0, 1 KO).
Edwards
landed some solid body shots early in round
one, but got caught by a big Jackson shot to
the head.
As a result
Edwards seemed to realize that he had to
grant Jackson and his bull strength a
certain amount of respect. Edwards hammered
Jackson with a left-right combination to the
head toward the end of round one and Jackson
began to show signs of fatigue.
Jackson was
never in any danger of actually winning a
round, but he opened round two with a big
right hand to the head but then took a blast
from Edwards. Jackson resorted to some
amateurish clowning throughout the match
Edwards
landed a variety of clean and heavy shots
throughout rounds three but to Jackson's
credit he never went down.
In the end
all three judges scored the bout 40-36 for
Edwards.
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