Results from Pikesville, MD!

My thanks to my buddies "The Fight Doctor" Jerome Spears and photographer extraordinare Mike Greenhill for covering for me last night in Pikesville. Jerome handled the announcing on the videotape while Mike did this report for Fightnews.com.

Louisiana heavyweight Andrew Greeley destroyed Baltimore's local favorite Jed Phipps at 2:36 of round one at the Armory in Pikesville, Maryland Friday night, flooring Phipps twice before sending him wobbling around the ring, whereupon referee Malik Waleed called a halt. The Phipps-Greeley main event was delayed 20 minutes due to the ringside paramedics having to help an ill spectator out on a stretcher, so the bout could not start until the EMTs had returned.

The delay did not affect Monroe, LA native Greeley, who pounced on Phipps from the get-go, showing surprising hand speed for a heavyweight. He rocked Phipps with hard rights over Phipps' low left hand, hurting him on several occasions. A hard right sent Phipps down on his behind, without all his faculties. He never recovered as Greeley downed him again with a hard left to the head, then had Phipps wavering around the ring with his back to his opponent at the time of the stoppage. Phipps drops to 17-4 (10), while Greeley improves to 11-11-2 (7). (UPDATE: Greeley's father is out of the hospital and is headed back to Louisiana)

The most exciting bout took place earlier in the evening, as Baltimore super middleweight Henry Mayes rallied off the ropes to stop Nick Collins of Bel Air, Maryland, in two rounds. Furious exchanges took place from the opening bell, and after moments of distress in a neutral corner, Mayes attacked off the ropes, knocking Collins down with a classic left hook as the crowd went wild. Collins beat the count, but Mayes jumped on him in the blue corner, crumpling him to the bottom of the turnbuckle with a flurry of punches. Ken Chevalier halted matters right away, at the 1:15 mark of the second. Collins was flat on his back for a while, but turned out to be okay. Mayes is now 5-1 (4), while Collins suffers his first defeat after 2 wins.

Reisterstown, Maryland light middleweight Matt Hill broke a long losing streak with a workmanlike unanimous 4-round decision win over Marquis McConnell of Rock Hill, South Carolina. Those who watched his last few bouts wondered if Hill, now 7-28-2 (4), would ever win again. But he awkwardly outworked McConnell, who had a point deducted in the final round for holding.

Local former amateur star Jesse Nicklow raised his pro mark to 3-0 (1) with a 4-round unanimous decision win over Larry Brothers of Temple Hills, Maryland. Pasadena, Maryland's Nicklow attacked the body and head throughout, but abandoned the jab in the second round. "He headbutted me early, and it got me angry and overanxious to take him out," explained Nicklow. Brothers falls to 6-19-3 (4).

Putty Hill, Maryland heavyweight Adam Bloom was outweighed, 227 to 263, by Fort Mill, South Carolinas Ryan Shay. Perhaps the extra pounds proved detrimental to Shay, who ran out of gas at 1:50 of the second, after Bloom pounded him in two different corners over the nearly 5 minutes of fighting. Once Shay could no longer raise his arms, ref Gary Componeschi stopped the fight. Bloom is now 4-0 (3), while Shay goes home with a 1-4 (1) record.

On hand to watch the action were NFL Hall of Fame running back Lenny Moore, as well as former multiple division titlist Vinny Paz.

(Editor's note: Just wanted to let everyone know I am still recovering from this virus and my time in front of the computer will be limited for a couple of days. Let me also thank those of you who sent in your results as well)