Gabcast! Boxing Along the Beltway #39 - Post-Fight Wrap-Up From Springfield!
Fightnews.com's Julian Burgower and I recap tonight's boxing card from the ABC Sports Complex in Springfield, VA.
Quick results:
Former WBC Heavyweight champion Oliver McCall won his 50th career bout with an eight-round unanimous decision over Marion "Jackhammer" Wilson.
Horace "The Reason" Grant scored a first-round TKO (:40)over Carousse Auponte.
"Money" Mike Sawyer won a four-round unanimous decision over Montez Wilson.
Edgar "The Tiger" Torres won by first-round TKO (1:05) over Danny Lundy.
John "No Mercy" Mackey won by four-round unanimous decision over Larry "The Gladiator" Brothers.
Kay Koroma won by first-round TKO (2:16) over George Staten.
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Great to see you last night, Gary.
My take on the show: Promoter Han Kim was thinking too small for that main event. $60 ringside to see the No. 5 WBC heavyweight in the world, a former titlist who is probably at the top of his game? Ridiculous! Not only that, while the fight may have never been in doubt, his scrap with the Methuselah-like Marion Wilson (the big 50) was hugely entertaining. The promoter, with some crafty promoting, could have gotten up to $200 for ringside in a much classier venue than the ABC hall, which looks right out of the old Sean Penn prison movie, "Bad Boys." It was a great main event, and the crowd loved it, but every fan there should thank their lucky stars for a steal like that. As for the rest of the show, two of the opponents -- Doug Graves and Otto de Morgue -- should never have been hired or licensed. Obscene. The Philly kid fighting Mike Sawyer, however, knew what he was doing, even if he couldn't really punch. That the judges gave him NO credit for his legit knockdown was just another case of the Virginia commission being, well, out to lunch. Lastly, one of the great, unsung warriors of modern boxing, a credit to the most dangerous craft, a fearless and immensely skilled competitor, a man who had everything a world heavyweight champion needs but proper management and a knockout punch, and a man 100 percent dedicated to the necessasry fitness needed to stay safe in this unforgiving sport -- and I'm talking about Marion "Mo" Wilson -- needs to look at last night as a crowning, if futile, achievement, and finally retire. He should be in the D.C. Boxing Hall of Fame and he deserves the right to enjoy his old age (coming up!) with his being intact. -- John Scheinman
I swear I am telling the truth.
I Seen Cassandra White Last night at the Golden Gloves Tournament located at Sugar Rays. She aint changed a bit. She had a short Walmart Mini Skirt on coupled with some PayLess high heels. And a shirt that was showing he tangarine size breast. She was as fly as can be, She will return!
No more bad checks coming out of her little red light district purse.
My baby phat is back. We miss you Cassandra. Good Luck.
Yo Scheinman,
Who said Han Kim was Don King? You're full of left handed compliments, are you a southpaw? Spoken by somebody who never promoted anything in his life, no doubt.
My pictures are up from the fights:
http://photodawg1.smugmug.com/gallery/2509697
I was most impressed with Koroma, Mackey, and Sawyer... in that order.
I wish Mike Sawyer would actually fight someone who can box. Thus far he has fought a bunch of bums. He should be on a bum fight video. Well I got to give him some credit, he at least made it in the ring this time and not messed up on drugs. Keep it up, you still might make it to the loser hall of fame. I am still bitter over 2 events he flaked out on (dehydration, sure?). Mike's outfit look stupid too, did his mom make it for him. He looked like a cross between a gay irish midget and Nacho Libre, he should get a cap.
Doug Graves and and Otto de Morgue, wtf? I am glad that anyone can call themselves a boxer in Virginia, a complete discredit for anyone who really is a boxer.
Good main event, would like to see a fight like that at a larger venue but I doubt anyone would come with such little undercard talent.
Doug Graves and Otto de Morgue -- that's old "Flash Gordon" talk. Flash, a reclusive hermit in NYC in the '70s had the greatest boxing publication of all: "Tonight's Boxing Newsletter." No self-respecting fight fan could live without it. Funny, knowledgable, with a line on every fight, and if the opponents weren't worthy of even their own names, Flash gave them new ones: The two I've named, Pi Su Shit was another good one. He was an equal opportunity offender, but what he was commenting on was LOPSIDED MATCHMAKING. If you can find these relics, they are a great glimpse into the past of the rough and tumble times you just don't see in the cleaned up, sanitized NYC of today. Keep the peace in here, fight fans. -- JS
p.s. -- No less an authority than the great Jack Newfield called Flash Gordon "the Tom Paine of the Sweet Science." He was that good.
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