On the undercard of Floyd Mayweather-Ricky Hatton earlier tonight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Baltimore middleweight Ishmail "The Arsenal" Arvin made his return to the ring and battled to a six-round draw against Jose Angel "Silver Boy" Rodriguez. Scores were 58-56, 57-57, 57-57.
This was Arvin's first bout since September 28, 2006 when he lost his first pro bout, an eight-round majority decision to David Toribio at Michael's Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie, MD. Arvin's record is now 14-1-3, six KO's. Rodriguez, a native of New York who has made three appearances in Glen Burnie, remained undefeated at 12-0-1, two KO's.
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Ishmail fought a terrific fight. Although he had been off for well over a year and before that his two bouts do not even count as he was out of shape and out of mind when it came to those fights. It is clear to me that he has realized at 32 now is the time to really get after it with his career. My only regret is that the bout was early on the card as it was a more competitive and exciting bout then the rest of the undercard. Arvin is definitely back and if he can stay focused here at 14-1-1 he will definitely get some shots.
Yeah... the kid can definitely fight... If he can keep his house outside the ring in order, maybe he can still do something.
I have been told that Ishmael actually should have won the fight and that he was fighting a goldenboy fighter or he would have. Even leading up to the fight, it came to me that he was in great shape and looking very good physically and in the gym. I heard that Dave, his current trainer, would come a get him in the morning to make sure he would run and be in great shape. That strategy seems to have worked well. Great effort by the fighter and trainer. That is how you do it. Respect. Chin from the honeycomb boxing gym
Arvin was not fighting a Golden Boy fighter, actually a bout that they reluctantly added to the card. Arvin would have won the fight if he had not been knocked down. Not a real knock down, but something that without ring rust would not have happened. But it still made it a 2 point round.
there was a lot of stuff with this fight, at the last minute the fight was changed from 8 to 6 rounds, our opponent was hurt in the 6 round, we would have stopped him in the 8 th, we were rushed into the ring with no warm up, we are learning the fight game. PoP!
we were fighting against the fighter and the promoter Golden Boy and Winky Wright it was Winky's fighter.PoP!
He is the best i've seen in a long time, keep up the good work!
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