Just received word that Baltimore featherweight Tyrell "Da Show Shock A" Samuel will be appearing on the next ShoBox telecast on Friday, August 3.
Samuel (9-1, five KO's) will be taking on Philadelphia's Eric "The Outlaw" Hunter in the eight-round co-feature bout that will take place at the Far West Rodeo Complex in Doraville, GA. Samuel is a late replacement for undefeated Joel Santiago, who suffered a recent injury.
Samuel has not fought since suffering his first pro loss -- a fourth-round technical knockout at the hands of Jose Hernandez on April 19 at Michael's Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie, MD.
Hunter (7-1, three KO's) is coming off a six-round unanimous decision victory over Vineash Rungea on April 20 in Atlantic City. This will be Hunter's first scheduled eight-round contest. Some Beltway Boxing fans may remember Hunter from a brief appearance he put in at Michael's on March 9, 2006. Hunter stopped Steve Lozoya in 29 seconds of the first round in that bout.
What's also interesting is that both boxers have a tough common opponent by the name of Carlos Vinan of New Jersey. Samuel fought Vinan twice -- winning a majority decision in October of 2005 in New Jersey and winning a tough split decision in September of 2006 at Michael's.
Hunter's only loss came to Vinan on January 11, 2007 in Philadelphia. Hunter lost a six-round split decision in that bout.
The ShoBox telecast begins at 11 PM ET on Showtime.
In the co-feature, junior middleweight David Estrada (21-3, 11 KOs) dropped Luther Smith (22-5, 12 KOs) in round three and got a referee's stoppage at 1:25 of round four.
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Big surprise! NOT!
Hunter weighed in at 123 his last fight and Samuel ahs been as big as 135. I live in the area, but was born and raised in Philadelphia. I like Tyrell, but I also like the Outlaw. It'll be interested to see if Eric can invoke a strategy to outbox Tyrell. Then again, with Tyrell coming off that TKO loss (and it was a nasty one) may even out the size differential. Should be interesting.
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Just watched the Samuel, Hunter fight and I scored it a lot different than the judges did.
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fight but even alot of those shots
were caught on samuels arms
It also appeared to me that the only clean hard shots to the head were landed by Tyrell.
I had Hunter winning by one maybe two rounds.
Did anybody else see it that way?