Fight Night Commentary and Recap!

The only reason why I am posting any results from Fight Night 2005 last night at the Washington Hilton and Towers is because the mini-boxing card took place in DC. If this blog was called Boxers Along The Beltway, it would receive no coverage from me here at all. It will receive a little bit of commentary.

For the first time in more than 10 years, there were NO Beltway Boxers on the Fight Night card. I personally take this as a slap in the face to our boxing community. I know full well that 90 percent of the people who attend this charity event are not hardcore boxing fans and many of those 90 percent are not even watching the bouts when they take place.

But this is an opportunity to show off what the Beltway has as far as boxing talent is concerned to the 10 percent that do. Some of those 10 percent make as much money as some of that 90 percent.

The card this year was promoted by the Duva family, so naturally, they placed their own fighters on the card. Couldn't they had fought someone from this area even if it would be to showcase their own fighters?

And don't say that Lou Duva doesn't know anything about this area. Duva has regularly worked with talent from the Beltway. Many years ago, Duva worked with Reggie "Showtime" Green and the late Reuben "Ratman" Bell, while he had Pernell Whitaker.

And, without naming names, I do know of a couple of boxers that were available for this card and were turned down. A couple of Beltway Boxers would have made this card a lot better than it was.

Speaking of which, here is the recap:

Undefeated Shawn "The Mongoose" George of Brooklyn, NY kept his IBC Americas Cruiserweight title and won the NABA Cruiserweight championship by winning a 10-round unanimous decision over Chad Van Sickle of Grove City, OH. George is now 11-0-2 with 5 KO's.

Welterweight Oscar Diaz of San Antonio, TX scored an eight-round unanimous decision over Miami, FL's David Toribo. Diaz is 22-1.

Undefeated junior middleweight Michael Torres of Jersey City, NJ scored a third-round technical knockout over John Rudolph of Cincinnati, OH. Torres is 6-0, three KO's.