Details are sketchy, but we have learned that "JC Superstar" Juan Carlos Robles was stopped in the eighth round by Rob Calloway in his try for the WBC Continental Americas Cruiserweight title last night in Allentown, PA. It is the first loss for Robles and he is now 9-1, four KO's. Calloway's record rises to 69-7-1, 55 KO's.
The co-feature saw George "War Time" Rivera win a four-round unanimous decision over Clarence "Sonny Bono" Taylor to bring his record to 8-1, three KO's. Taylor's record is now 12-14-2, six KO's.
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Just got back from Allentown PA
where I went up to support Juan Robles and George Rivera.
George Rivera fought a smart fight in that he didn't allow his opponent to fight his fight.
He kept moving and when he did stop he tied his opponent up
imeadieatly.
In the Robles fight it was a matter of experience vs guts and
determination.The fight started off
with Juan getting caught with a sharp right hand in the first round
that only made him more determined
throughout the rest of the fight.
The next 3 or 4 rounds were all Robles rounds and thats when I think the experience started taking over and Calloway started edgeing the rounds and landing his big shots.In the eighth round Robles was dropped and got back to his feet but I think the referee
had decided it was time to call it a night. In summary ,the Rivera fight wasn't a barn burner but George did the right thing and he can chaulk one up in the win column.
Now Juans fight on the other hand
had all of Calloways people very worried and it was a competative
fight until it was stopped.Although Calloway won by TKO there were times that Juan landed his big shots and had Calloway on his heels.
If juan Robles doesn't let this affect him mentally this will only
help him grow into one of the most
exciting cruiserweights around.
Yours truly
Big Daddy Grip
Article on the fight from BoxRec.com:
2008-03-15 : Rob Calloway beat Juan Carlos Robles by TKO in round 8 of 10
Location: Days Inn, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
Judge: Robert Grasso
Judge: Dewey LaRosa
Judge: Steve Weisfeld
In an exciting main event that surprised the hometown Allentown crowd, unbeaten but unknown cruiserweight Juan Carlos Robles gave Rob Calloway all he could handled. With a hungry look in his eye that showed he came to fight, Robles proceeded to jab away and batter Calloway through the first five rounds, giving Calloway a bloody nose and dominating the first half of the fight. For Robles, it was the chance of a lifetime against the aging 38 year old Calloway, who came into the bout with an eleven bout win streak and a world cruiserweight ranking.
However by the sixth round, Calloway started landing power shots, and Robles began to fade. Behind on points, Calloway, now 69-7-1 with 54 kos, played the part the part of one punch stalker. Near the end of round 8, Calloway landed a right hand bomb that sent Robles down and out through the Robles in Calloway's corner. Robles, now 9-1 with 4 kos, somehow beat the count, but was unable to continue even though the round appeared to have ended. The bout was stopped. Robles recovered okay on Calloway's stool.
Ringside chatter was that the Calloway camp was now looking for a WBA cruiserweight title shot against First Arslan. This bout was the main event of a seven fight card presented by Marshall Kauffman Productions. It was a nice clean bout, with no fouls or holding throughout, with the referee's only action in over a half hour in the ring to stop the bout after Robles beat the count. Although Robles lost, he certainly comported himself like a world class fighter worthy of a much higher rating than the Boxrec had indicated coming into this bout. Scheduled for ten. Calloway's Intercontinental title belt was not at stake. Former world heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman was present at ringside in a packed house at Days Inn Hotel Conference Center in Allentown in the most successful boxing card held in this venue in recent memory.
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That post was by Robles' manager. Don't know how accurate that assessment of the fight might be.
Honestly, another bust from this area. Calloway may have experience, but he is a bum for the most part. Time to get off the tits of these guys and realize that they have very little talent.
Wait unitl you read the article on Fightnews.com. You will see how accurate the BoxRec writer's version was.
Congratulations fellas. It sounds like you guys put on a hell of a show up north.
Mike Sawyer
The Fightnews.com article is up and it is very similar to the BoxRec article in that Juan Carlos Robles put up a very good fight with Calloway.
I knew this would be a tough fight with Robles.
Its awfully early in his career to take on someone like Calloway.
Glad to hear he did himself proud and hung in there.
Nothing to be ashamed of in this defeat.
- TBT
Here's an article from Ken Hissner on Juan Carlos Robles vs. Rob Calloway:
CALLOWAY STOPS ROBLES IN THE 8TH!
by: Ken Hissner
Boxing’s “The All-American Prizefighter” Rob Calloway (74-7-1, 58 KOs), of St. Joseph’s, Missouri, only strengthened his position as a cruiserweight contender in all 4 organizations with a sensational 9th round knockout at 3:05 of the round over previously unbeaten Juan Carlos Robles (9-1, 4 KOs), Waynesboro, Virginia, Saturday night with a packed house at the Day’s Inn, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
King’s Promotions, with Ty McNeill as matchmaker, put on a crowd pleasing show that had the fan’s screaming from the opening bout until the final one. The fan’s included former WBC heavyweight champion Hasim Rachman, who is also trained by Marshall Kauffman, trainer of Calloway. After the first round he went to the corner and offered his words of advice to “double up on the right hand.” What a right hand Calloway has.
Not to mention a rock hard left jab. This was Calloway’s 12th straight win, 11 by knockout. Only heavyweight Terry Smith (30-3-1) went the distance.
On the Monday prior to the fight this writer went to King’s Gym, in Reading, and saw a pretty sick Calloway slowly improving from a bad cold that kept him out of the gym the previous week. It was quite obvious he had a breathing problem, but the show must go on. Calloway, like his trainer, Kauffman, both are old school. No excuses.
Robles, with a large following at ringside, all the way from Virginia, came to fight. Considering he hadn’t gone beyond 6 rounds before, he was in the fight on an even basis for the first 4 rounds. Kurt Wolfheimer of Fights News even had him ahead.
Calloway rocked Robles twice in the opening round with right hands hoping to make a short night of it considering his physical condition. It seemed to bring out the best of Robles who came back with his own offense in the last 30 seconds of the round. In the 2nd round Robles seemed to outhustle Calloway who later said “I never make excuses, but I was pacing myself through the first 4 rounds due to my breathing condition.” Robles rocked Calloway with 10 seconds to go in the round.
In the 3rd round Calloway used his jab to control the round, always setting Robles up for the right hand as he kept moving to the right of his opponent. In the 4th round Robles showed a good jab of his own causing Calloway’s nose to bleed. The smell of blood only encouraged the Virginia biker who boasted having cut off his own finger with a wood chisel, Mohawk cut and ponytail made him look like something out of a warrior movie. He was more than some club fighter, but a skilled one with limited fights.
In the 5th round, Calloway took over the fight rocking Robles with a straight right hand that had his opponent seriously dazed at the bell. In the 6th round with encouragement from his corner Calloway went right hand crazy and had Robles on the receiving end throughout. “I knew it was going to be a long night, the way this guy took a shot,” said Calloway.
In the 7th round with Robles still dangerous with a good left hook, Calloway simply outlanded him bringing blood from Robles nose. In the 8th round Calloway came out with finish written all over his demeanor forcing Robles to the ropes throwing caution to the wind. With approximately 5 seconds to go in the round Calloway hit Robles with a devastating right hand that put Robles down in Calloway’s own corner. The referee Gary Rosato counted Robles out at 3:05 of the round.
It took about 15 minutes before Robles who was helped to the stool in Calloway’s corner was able to get to his feet. “I couldn’t get away from his right hand,” said Robles.
A humble Calloway being thanked the crowd for adopting a fighter from St. Joseph, Missouri, and planned to bring his family east for a vacation. “I would like to get a fight with WBA champion Firat Arslan who is planning on defending his title May 3rd in Germany,” said Calloway. “I am 38 years old, with 82 fights, and feel this is my year for a title shot,” added Calloway.
Rob Calloway (74-7-1, 58 KOs) and you call him a`bum?
yeah we call him a bum....and your point??
It makes a point I don't have to unless you don't have a brain.
I had enough brains to realize you came back to put up a piddly azz response. Do you feel better now?? Was it worth it now? Good!
Rob Callaway is not a bum. Far from it. Good for Robles - good shot. It reminds me of Brandon Cabell challenging Tony Thompson. Very similiar... look at the records and look at the results. Not man vs. boy in either case. But a younger guy looking to jump past some hurdles to assume the hurdles the other has accomplished. Good shot by both to me. And lets hope hope Robles rebounds better than Cabel.
The Thompson-Cabell fight is a good comparison of the Robles-Calloway fight, with one exception. Juan almost won the fight and Cabell was never competitive. I was at the fight and Robles appears to have the tools to go all the way. He's got heart, he's got a chin, he's fast, and he's strong. He was just lacking experience and made too many mistakes in the fight. He stayed outside and traded with Calloway. He didn't do hardly any body work. He circled to his left the whole fight right in to the direct line of fire of Calloway's big right hands. Calloway took advantage of those mistakes and landed what seemed like a million right hands in the last few rounds of the fight. I couldn't believe that kid took those shots, stayed on his feet, never clinched, and kept firing back! The only guy from around here in that weight class that would have been able to stand up to those shots would have been Darnell Wilson. Everyone else, from big light heavy to small heavy, they would have been stopped much, much sooner. The kid can fight, he's got heart, and he's very marketable. He'll be back for sure! George Rivera is very, very slick but it doesn't look like he can punch very well. He completely outclassed Sonny Bono who is no joke at all.
Kudos to JC and his management for taking on a significant, calculated risk this early in his career. Whenever a prospect takes his first defeat, 20/20 hindsight always questions whether it was too much too soon.
That doesn't appear to be the case here, as it sounds like JC did himself proud and took Calloway to edge a couple of times.
It's been said of law that a prosecutor who never loses a trial doesn't try enough tough cases, and the same, I think, could be applied to boxing.
We'll find out shortly whether JC's head is as strong as his chin, and my guess is that it probably is.
Andrew Farmer is just one of many skilled prospects who was strengthened, not weakenend, by his first defeat. With Robles' power and showmanship, he'll have plenty of time to prove that he fits into this category, too.
So to JC, it's okay to spend most of the next week in a funk and the hot tub, but then get back to the gym. You have a lot more work and opportunities lying ahead.
Let's e honest. Anybody that would cut of their finger because they did not want to delay their career would not let a lost keep them down. Knowing JC he was ready to fight the next day.
Have any of you seen Calloway fight? This guy's probably one of the most over-hyped contenders around.
Everytime he steps up, he gets FLATTENNED. Then he goes back to the circuit and beats up on the grandchildren of Julio Cesar Chavez' first forty victims.
And though Robles may be dirt tough and all, his skill set is a couple of sandwiches short of a full plate.
Maybe he can come back and learn from this, especially to stop going in head first so those right hands might land less often and prevent what is probably gonna be an exciting, but pretty short career.
Calloway keeps his shot at a possible money fight alive, but if he's having a rough time with a ten fight novice, what is there to say?
Wartime is getting better and better though.
Boxbible -
Normally I don't agree with you but props for that last post. Calaway is just not that good of a fighter. And if JC can't learn to keep out of the way of a right hand against Calawayu, hes notgoing andywhere and every story I read on the fight said he kept getting hammered with right hands.
Juan R. did a very good job. I believe it is a good learning experience and he will go very far in his career. He will be back and better than ever! Keep it up Juan!!
Drove to PA.Great effort By George and Juan.Juan has a huge heart and not afraid of anything.Better to have 1 loss with Calloways resume than a loss to a 2-5 fighter.The experience did not show till late in the fight.Great Show by the Beltway fighters.
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