Due to travel constraints (returning late from Lynchburg), I was unable to recap everything that happened individually this weekend, so here is the recap.
Bedford, VA light heavyweight Scott “Cujo” Sigmon won an eight-round unanimous decision over Charleston, SC’s Toris “The Bull” Brewer in front of a packed house at the Lynchburg City Armory in Lynchburg, VA Saturday night.
Sigmon used improving offensive skills, including a blistering body attack in the early rounds to win those rounds. Brewer came back late but it wasn’t enough. Sigmon is now 6-1, two KO’s while Brewer is 14-3, six KO’s.
In the co-feature, Portsmouth, VA cruiserweight William “The Storm” Bailey defeated Waynesboro, VA’s “El Guerro” Juan Carlos Robles for the second straight time, winning an eight-round unanimous decision.
A confident Bailey proved to be a stylistic nightmare for Robles, beating him to the punch repeatedly. Bailey spent the bulk of the bout with his hands down, but was still too fast for Robles to hit him with any regularity.
Bailey is now 10-16-2, five KO’s while Robles falls to 12-3, five KO’s.
Other bouts on the card: Francois Ambang (2-2)of Richmond, VA won a four-round unanimous decision over the debuting Darryl Johnson of Columbia, SC.
David “D-Hop” Hopkins of Roanoke, VA scored a vicious third-round knockout over David “Do or Die” Derby of Outer Banks, NC. With less than a minute to go in the round, Hopkins landed a crushing right hand that dropped Derby face first to the canvas. Referee Chris Wollesen immediately stopped the contest at 2:15 of the round.
Hopkins remains undefeated at 2-0, one KO while Derby remains winless at 0-2.
Palm Bay, Fl middleweight Richard Grant won a four-round unanimous decision over Dwayne Davis of Roanoke. Grant is now 2-2 while Davis is 0-2-1.
Heavyweight Donnell “The Real Touch of Sleep” Holmes of Ivanhoe, NC scored a second-round TKO over Curtis Taylor of Danville, VA. Holmes dropped Taylor three times in the second before the bout was stopped at 2:59 of the round.
Here is the BATB Post Fight Wrap-Up for this card:
Gabcast! Boxing Along the Beltway #162 - Full Report from Lynchburg!
"The Fight Doctor" Jerome Spears and I recap the Major League Boxing Card from the Lynchburg City Armory in Lynchburg,VA!
Also on Saturday, Two Beltway Boxers were in action at the Woodlands Resort in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Baltimore lightweight Raymondo Elliott scored his first pro victory with a second-round knockout over Clinton Douglas of Philadelphia. Elliott used a barrage of punches to eventually stop Douglas at 36 seconds of the second. Elliott is now 1-1, one KO while Douglas is now 2-3-2.
Also, Baltimore super featherweight Darrell Martin lost the six-round main event on that card to undefeated Antonio Espinosa of West New York, NJ by unanimous decision. Espinosa won by shutout (60-54) on all three judge’s cards. Martin is now 4-8, one KO while Espinosa is 10-0, one KO.
In Morgantown, WVA, “The People’s Champion” Jonathan Felton of Stafford, VA won a four-round unanimous decision over Allen Prescott of North Carolina in a heavyweight bout. The win breaks a seven-bout winless streak for Felton, who raises his record to 6-14, five KO’s while Prescott falls to 2-3, one KO.
Baltimore junior middleweight Ishmail “The Arsenal” Arvin was slated to take on Derek Ennis for the USBA title in Atlantic City Saturday night. Thanks to numerous sources who have checked in saying that the bout was scrapped because Ennis could not make the 154-pound weight limit.
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Regarding Ennis vs. Arvin I heard Ennis came in 4 pounds overweight. The weigh in was held a day prior to the fight. Arvin was still going to take the fight but the condition was that Ennis was to weigh in the day of the fight and could not weigh any more than he weighed at the weigh in. I heard that on the day of the fight they weighed Ennis and he had put on ANOTHER 4 pounds. At that point the fight was scrapped.
The fight was scheduled to be for the vacant USBA 154lb title. When Ennis was overweight at the first weighin, Arvin agreed to take the fight against the heavier Ennis. As he had made weight, if they had fought and Arvin had won, Arvin would have won the title.
what up Gary and BATB its Ish, i dont have a good number 4 u. At the weigh in friday i came in at 153, Ennis came in at 159 1/2 and lost the belt on the scale. With some convincing ($$$) i agreed 2 take the fight but he would have 2 weigh in again in the morning at the same weight. That morning he weiged 165 and the fight was canceled.
So did Arvin still get his purse, as he fulfilled his obligation by making weight at the weigh-in and being fight-ready on fight day?
The unconfirmed word is that he did get his purse and a little bonus.
The unconfirmed word is that [Arvin]did get his purse and a little bonus.Thanks, Gary. Although unconfirmed, this was what I assumed, as Joe Hensley acted similarly admirably a few years back, when he paid full purses to the fight-ready boxers who fell on the wrong side of the GMU Patriot Center's curfew and had their bouts scratched.
I've often wondered why every promoter doesn't do this as a matter of practice. It's not as if the promoter refunds the crowd a pro-rated portion of their ticket cost when a bout is scratched. The promoter already has a minor windfall by not paying the offending fighter, so why shouldn't the fight-ready boxer be compensated in full?
The bonus in this case was a nice touch, too, as Arvin indeed showed more-than-good-faith in his concessions to try to make this fight happen.
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