In his only bout of the tournament, Glen Burnie, MD's Nick Kisner captured the 201-pound title at the National PAL Championships in Oxnard, CA.
Kisner defeated Lenroy Thompson of Lenexa, KS, 4-1 to win the Beltway's only Open PAL title. Next stop for Kisner will be the AIBA Youth Championships in Guadalajara, MX, October 25-November 1. Kisner is a member of the US Under-19 team that will head to the Youth Championships. DC's Traon Bynum is also a member and Kevin Rivers of Palmer Park, MD might make the trip to Mexico as well.
Baltimore super heavyweight Tavon Sol lost his championship bout to Bryant Tune of the United States Marine Corps, 3-1.
Capitol Heights, MD's Gary Antonio Russell was named the Outstanding Boxer in the Male Senior Division. Russell won the 15-16 age bracket at 106 pounds. Russell stopped his first opponent in the second round and shut out his final two opponents, 5-0, during the tournament.
pdxkewK I S N E R !!! Rock on!!! Your fans in MD!!!
ReplyDeleteKEYSTONE ROCKS! Keep up the great work with the youngins. Number 1 baby. Tito! Tito! Tito!
ReplyDeletewhat is going on? guys are winning titles with just one fight? nothing against kishner, but why is no one particpating in the events? what a waste of money, airfare, hotel, food, etc...
ReplyDeleteused to be-if you captured a PAL title you fought everynight and you fought the best. USA BOXING SUCKS! wonder why everyone is turning pro. what a crock of shit!
You get to be number 1 by fighting one night and beating a kid from
Utah that is having his first fight. Again, nothing against the boxers that went, I am sure they too wanted to fight every night. Keep up the good work Kishner. You will make one hellova pro.
Money is really tight these days and most gyms (even the ones that are run through as public rec centers or through park and rec) don't pay for travel expenses. And the ones that do, only pay for USABoxing events like the JOs and USA. A lot of gyms don't have opportunity to raise funds because of restrictions by their organizations either. Bottom line is parents have to spend dollars and so, numbers are down at almost every invitational over the past year except the Ringside.
ReplyDeleteAt the PAL, the level of competition is usually pretty decent, so for a boxer like Nick to get a chance to box against Thompson who won the US Future Stars (was USA Tournament) before going to the World Under 19s, it still may have been worthwhile. PAL registration was probably half of what it normally is this year - they only had one session per day instead of two. I think it's just because of the economy.
It definitely isn't like it used to be where you could feel pretty good about the fact that you would get a bout at the national invitationals. I've had to call ahead and bug the registration people for numbers to make sure our boxers have at least people in their weight classes and age brackets.
I can tell you that there some good boxers at the PAL, not just beginners.
Just my two cents
why does everyone find money to go to ringside. is it because boxers from all over the world r invited? or because of the 50lb belts? do u have a list of the boxers who won locally. how many went? did kishner go?
ReplyDeletePeople go to Ringside because there are more than 1,400 boxers who attend, so it doesn't matter if you are a 12 year old that weighs 200lbs. or 75 year old man - you are more likely to get a match there than any other tournament. Plus they do give out the best awards - uniform, bags, hats and the 20lbs. spinner belt. Both of these also bring good competition and you see the same names at this tournament as a lot of the other advancing and ranking tournaments even though anyone can go that registers. Last year's results can be found at http://worldchampionships.ringside.com/ The previous year's results can be found http://www.amateurboxing.com/2007ringside.htm
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