Fresh off his second-round TKO win over Dale Brown on January 19, Silver Spring, MD cruiserweight and Trans America champion Darnell "The Ding-A-Ling Man" Wilson returns to action in what should be a great matchup against former IBF Cruiserweight champ Kelvin "Koncrete" Davis on February 23 at the Catholic Youth Center in Scranton, PA. The bout will be the featured bout on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights.
Both boxers are serious knockout artists. We know about Wilson (20-5-3, 17 KO's) but Davis also has a solid knockout record (24-4-2, 17 KO's). Davis won the vacant IBF title in May of 2004 defeating Ezra Sellers by eighth round TKO. Davis dropped Sellers three times before stopping him. Davis vacated the title in 2005.
Wilson's bout will be the second straight week a Beltway Boxer will be on national television. NABO and WBC Continental Americas Heavyweight champ Tony "The Tiger" Thompson will be on Fox Sports Net respectively on February 16. (UPDATE: Eric Aiken's bout that was scheduled for February 16 will not take place. Aiken has a scheduled bout sometime in March.)
By the end of February, Beltway Boxers will have appeared five times on national television (The Peterson Brothers and Teddy Reid made earlier appearances). That's six boxers in less than two months!!
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Very exciting for us!!! Keep up the great work...hey whatever happened to DeMarcus "Chop Chop" Corley? We going to see any action from him in '07?
That should be a real shootout. Both are fireplugs with power. If ding-a-ling wins, he should get a title shot.
Haven't heard much from Corley since his title loss to Junior Witter last summer. I'll try to get in contact with him.
Oh............GOOD GRIEF!!!!!!!!!!!! (Has someone finally been listening to me???) This is an OUTSTANDING fight!
Go Ding-a-Ling man!!!!!!
BTW - I agree Skinnyscott; this is Wilson's window of opportunity here, and he's also coming off a big win. He needs to 'seize the moment'. It's 'now time' for him, and he's right on the cusp of challenging the divisions absolute elite and for the highest honours.
Darnell - Train like you've never trained before. Plenty of time to "make love" -- now is the time to "make weight" and soon "make war"! ( i.e. I hope Tony Thompson doesn't bring him to the Playboy Mansion card later this month...Wilson could be 'trouble' there folks! LOL!)
Peace...;-)
Man am I ever looking forward to this one here...This one will be like putting Smith & Wesson or Nitro & Glycerin together; a sure fire 'explosion' will invartiably ensue!
And one with 'high stakes' and strong implications. The winner here is a top-10 contender I.M.O. The loser? With both being on the 'wrong side of 30' and a few losses on each of their ledger's -- it could be stick-a-fork-in-them DONE at the top-level of the division and boxing.
I have a friend of mine from Scranton who will no doubt be hitting this one. I know Penn is quite a bit north from you, but are you going to be hitting this one 'Digital'? (Or watching on the screen like myself?)
I say Wilson ends it in 4 or less.
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