Earlier today, I put up the results from the card from Waldorf, courtesy of my buddy Mike Swann of 15rounds.com. Thanks to an alert reader who noticed that they were the results from LAST year's card! I have deleted that post, but I want to make sure the poster who noticed that knew that I got your message and I thank you.
These are the results from Friday's show in Waldorf, once again courtesy of Mike Swann.
Every fall Bobby Magruder stages his annual pro boxing show at the Jaycees Community Center in Waldorf Maryland. The fighters are gritty and exciting, if not particularly skilled in a technical sense, and put on a great show for the bargain price of $40.
Magruder, a member of the Maryland and Washington D.C. boxing halls of fame, is a showman second to none in southern Maryland. Not only did the roaring sell out crowd enjoy a card of six fights, but on this night Magruder featured a Polynesian bent, “A Tribute to the Islands,” with each paying customer receiving a lei from hula girls upon entrance. In addition, the musical offerings of Charlie Taylor and Kurt Gibbons were on display prior to the live card and during the intermission.
Maryland fight fans, hungry for live professional boxing, are hopeful that Magruder provides more frequent offerings of his brilliant promotions.
On hand for the festivities were former jr. middleweight champ Vincent Pettway, former WBO cruiserweight titlist Boone Pultz, and light-heavyweight contender Darnell Wilson.
The honored guest of the evening was the legendary trainer Angelo Dundee. Everyone in the house flocked to Dundee like paparazzi after Lindsey Lohan. Women kissed him, men shook his hand and hugged him, and he graciously posed for pictures with the many that approached him with camera in hand.
The card began with a four rounder between light welterweights Tony Kinney, 1-3, and Pernell Jackson, who was making his pro debut. Jackson floored Kinney once in the first and twice in the second before the ringside physician advised referee John Gradowski that Kinney, should not come out for round three.
Next, in a six round jr. middleweight bout, Vance Garvey and Charles Clark fought to a majority draw by scores of 57-57, 57-57, and 57-56 for Clark. Garvey went down from body blows in the first and second rounds when his foot slipped on the canvas as he was hit, and referee Kenny Chevalier ruled them as knockdowns. However, two of the three judges scored both rounds as 10-9. One of the rounds was scored as 10-8 on the third card. Garvey is now 6-18-4, and Clark is at 14-21-2.
Henry Mayes, now 4-1 with 3 Ko’s, starched Marvin Robinson at 2:39 of round one with a good left hook that laid Robinson flat on the canvas for several minutes. Referee Malik Waleed immediately called a halt to the fight when Robinson, now 4-3, [3], hit the deck.
Jason Champion and Chris Govan both made their pro debuts in a jr. middleweight fight scheduled for four. Govan suffered a nasty cut over his right brow from a punch in the first round, and was floored in the second. By the third round, Champion’s punches spattered Govan’s blood on my score sheet, and referee Chevalier stopped the bout on the advice of the ring physician after the third round.
Oscar Colindres and Wayne Hampton were next in a heavyweight fight scheduled for four. Hampton, who had 1976 Olympic Silver medallist Charles Mooney working in his corner, floored Colindres in rounds one and two, and Colindres had a point deducted in round three for holding. Both fighters tired early and the fight was marked by clutching by both men. Referee Gradowski stopped the fight at 2:42 of round four after Colindres failed to return fire after being hurt by a barrage of shots from Hampton. The exhausted winner Hampton leaned over a neutral corner trying to catch his wind after the stoppage.
In the four round finale, local boy Nick Caroleo won his pro debut by majority decision over Derek Sierra, now 0-3-1, in a light heavyweight tilt. The scores were 40-36, 38-38, and 40-36. Caroleo showed some skills with some sharp body punching and was the aggressor throughout the fight, finishing with a flourish by banging Sierra with power shots against the ropes just before the bell in what had been a good round for both men.
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2 comments:
Hi Gary, the fights in Waldorf were great! No big names on the card, but the matches sure were exciting. Jason Champion looked terrific in his first fight. He fought a tough, tough fight and stopped his guy on a bad cut. The guy was unable to answer the bell for the forth and final bell.
Nick Careleo won a decision in his first pro fight against a guy who has had three fights. Nick looked like a fighter from the 60's. He pressed the action the entire fight.
Dusty Harrison a 10 year old boxer with well over a 100 fights. Won easly over a 11 year old 75 pounder from Baltimore MD.
Brady Sanabaugh was from Brooklyn Boxing
Dusty Harrison was from Old School Boxing.
Angelo Dundee must have signed atleast 25 pair of boxing gloves that night. I did get a picture with angelo that I will be sending you.
Bobby Magruder was dancing around the ring with a Don King look a like wig on. He did put on one hell of a show. I like to know wear he found those ring girls at? they were phat as all outdoors.
Thanks for the comments, Roger! Much appreciate getting another first-hand account!
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