Here are the results from the third day of competition at the Washington Golden Gloves tournament at Sugar Ray Leonard Center in Palmer Park, MD:
Junior Division
9 years, 60 pounds (championship): Chamar Flowers (Headbangers) over DeJon Corley (Kenilworth)
9-10 years, 75 pounds (championship): Gregory Burton (Langdon Recreation) over Shadid Bond (Charm City)
14-15, 152 pounds (championship): Da'Quan Johnson (Kentland) over Carl Harper (Sugar Ray Leonard Center)
16 years, 152 pounds (championship): Xavier Ward (Supreme Defense) over Brian Rodriguez-Lopez (Down Under)
Jason Bell (14-15, 125 pounds) and Demetrius Martin (15-16, 141 pounds) both of D-Block won by walkovers.
Novice Division:
141 pounds: Cortland Perkins (Upton) over Johnny DaSilva (Round One)
141 pounds: Stephen McDonald (Young Titans) over Emmanuel Rodriguez (Down Under)
152 pounds: Kevin Thompson (Upton) over Austin Plummer (Supreme Defense)
165 pounds: Marshall Thompson (Keystone) over Charles Burgess (Round One)
178 pounds: Duane Morrison (Down Under) over Marcus Nureni (Unattached)
201 pounds: Kelvin Deda-O (Round One) over JC Arggri (Frederick Fight Club)
201+ pounds: Kenneth Campbell (Books and Boxing) over Andre Watson (Baltimore Boxing)
Winners by Walkover:
152 pounds: Allen Brown (Kentland)
152 pounds: Kevin Ottley (Down Under)
178 pounds: Brevan Woyziah (Frederick Fight Club)
178 pounds: Ryan Watson (Main Street Gym)
201 pounds: Glen Wright (Baltimore Boxing)
201 pounds: Andre Ward (Young Titans)
201+ pounds: Jamar Johnson (Sugar Ray Leonard Center)
Open Division:
123 pounds: Shadeed Floyd (Langdon Recreation) over Angelo Rector (Books and Boxing)
132 pounds: Kevin Rivers (Headbangers) over Joel Young (Keystone)
141 pounds: Michael Reed (Dream Team) over Edwin Reyes (Round One)
141 pounds: Terron Grant (Dream Team) over Nathaniel Davis (Old School)
141 pounds: Chris Warden (Old School) over Jonathan Burrs, II (Hagerstown)
165 pounds: Reginald Lucas (Upton) over Jacob Schaper (Hagerstown)
Winners by Walkover:
141 pounds: Terence Beatty, Jr. (Next Level)
152 pounds: David Grayton (Headbangers)
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Most of the fights were good, but several questionable decisions and stops.
I've been a fight fan my entire life and have supported the Golden Gloves tournament for many years. As time goes on I've seen a ongoing and continuous epidemic toxifying the sport with regards to extremely questionable decisions. This saturday night was no exception. Several decisions were completely erroneous, however most discouraging was the Warden vs Burrs fight. Burrs landed against Warden at will and his defense seemed unpenetrable however for some reason Warden still won the fight. Unbelieveable!!!
Mike Reed won by walkover didn't he?
Mike didn't fight....won by walkover
Carl Harper beat Da'Quan Johnson from beginning to end. Not sure what fight the judges were watching.
Chris Warden is the Great White Hopeful (winner was already set b4 the fight) and Mike Reed is going to do to him what Larry Holmes did to Jerry Cooney, provided he advances to fight Mike.
I thought that most of the decisions were on point, your always going to have some questionable decisions. The Warden bout, which fight were u watching, Warden chased that guy all over the ring, the ref. could have issued several eight count's in that bout
did not evev know they had a team in hagerstown
The Warden fight was a joke and the decision had already been made prior to the fight in my opinion. Warden didn't land many clean punches which explains why the ref didn't issue ANY eight counts in the bout. Warden was also punched in the face very cleanly the entire fight although it didn't appear much damage was done. Nonetheless, still should have been points scored. I thought Warden lost too, but with a close fight I guess it could have gone either way.
Points aren't scored by chasing, they are scored by landing. Seems to me several local favorites and/or those representing well connecting boxing clubs, won based on their fans/supporters who will continue to attend as long as they are in the tournament. I'm sure Kevin Rivers entourage of 60+ wouldn't attend the quarterfinals if he weren't in it. That explains why the ref took 2 pts from Young after taking 1 pt from Rivers (to ensure a Rivers victory and ongoing ticket sales) Harper, Burrs, Rodriquez and Shadid Bond were all robbed.
Warden lost, Harper won, and Rodriquez should have been able to finish the fight. End of debate.
ROFLMAO, boxing decisions always bring controversy. Who cares, it's a done deal at this point. Just one point of interest after reading these comments, I pulled up the Cooney/Holmes fight just for kicks. @Anonymous #7, you might want to check that fight out, I didn't c Sat fights, but Cooney "chased" Holmes and Cooney got his @$$ beat.
I hear more and more complaints in ref. to blatant bad decisions coming out the gloves. I'm sure some have merits.
I stopped going to golden gloves bouts for the very same reason. There shouldn't be any wonder as to why the sport continues to suffer.
Knowing how much sacrifice and dedication is involved in this sport I think the best thing to do is whatever is best for the FIGHTERS. The price for tickets may be high. The decisions may or may not be bad. But the fighters spend countless hours training in order to better themselves. They deserve to have supporters, and it's shameful that people try to profit from this. Turning your back on the sport doesn't benefit the participants.
I think ppl can support the fighters without supporting the gloves. If the gloves is b.s., participation and support should go down. That's the natural price for corruption.
You guy's have to be kidding, I know you aren't comparing the Warden Burr bout to the Holmes Cooney bout. Warden beat Burr from ring post to ring post, what fight was you guy's watching, Burr hardly landed any blows. Boxing is judged on a couple of thing's clean effective punching, ring generalship (affective aggressiveness) which Warden displayed. That's crazy to say the bout was pre determined the judges don't work like that and why would they. Somebody said Rodriguez should have been able to continue this is amatuer boxing and first priority is the boxer's safety, that kid was really hurt the ref. would have been negligent to let the bout continue.
The crowd oowed and ahhed after every blow Warden landed which were alot, Burr was on his bike so much did he land anything?
It seems whenever the one that looses his people say it was a bad decision, sound's like sourer grapes to me. Respect the decision and move on, most of the time if u go back and look at the tape u will see the decision was correct
Just curious about something, why is it when a local favorite or big boxing club picks and chooses which punches they want to throw, the locals say "you won't see him waste punches" however when the outsider does the exact same thing the locals say "he needs to be more active"? Can anyone say double standard.
uh, you might want to go back and look at that tape, Burrs landed plenty. If he was on his bike how could Warden have been landing considering the reach advantage? Warden is a brawler while Burrs is a finesse fighter. I thought the fight could have gone either way depending on what the judges were looking for but it does seem that whoever brings the most friends to cheer for them in the crowd, wins the fight. No question that has an impact on the decisions and certainly ongoing ticket sales.
Rodriquez was not hurt in that fight. Tired yes, hurt no. It was only like 15 seconds left in the match when it got stopped. Bad decision.
...of course it's sour grapes when you train hard and get robbed.
So are fights scored by how much the crowd ooohs and awwwhs or is it clean punching (in amateurs the white part of the gloves)? I mainly recall 2 or 3 ppl in the crowd ooohing and awwwhing for Warden, pretty sure they were friends. Everyone else was silent and disinterested. Not sure what the problem is with being on your bike though...ever heard of the stick and move?
I think many of the matches are influenced by something other than what is supposed to matter (i.e. effective clean punching, ring generalship). Rivalries sell tickets and based on what I see there are several rivalries between clubs (i.e. Dream Team, Old School). I think the debate over Warden/Burr is a moot issue. Gonna boil down to a Billups/Reed championship bout.
Haven't attended any of the gloves bouts this year but thought I'd wager in on the comments. As a fighter and trainer I can agree that some fights are improperly influenced by the crowd and popularity and network of the coach/club. However amateur fights need to be exciting otherwise who would want to watch them. Effective clean punching, ring generalship, and style are all factors in the way judges score fights. Ring generalship is more than simply being aggressive, fighters have to be able to cut the ring off and effectively land clean punches. In fights where there isn't much action or activity from one or both fighters in almost all instances the fighter that is most aggressive, impresses the judges the most and therefore will be awarded the "W".
No one can tell me at least some of these fights aren't fixed and the judges don't show favoritism cuz I went to one of Seth Billups fights where he lost to a kid out of Baltimore and after the fight Billups coach complained so badly that they changed his loss to a win. And that is something that can easily be verified by checking his bout book and the guy from Baltimore's bout book and they both have W's for the fight. No question favoritism exist and judges cheat!!!
I don't think Mike Reed will beat Womack. Admittedly I've only seen each of them go once or twice. 141 does look to be the hardest division.
I agree that 141 seems to be the hardest class. Haven't seen Womack fight so you could be right. I too was at Billups fight where he "technically" lost to the kid from Baltimore however I was in disbelief when they announced the other kid had won that fight. But that's not the first time I've seen f*cked up decisions before, but what happened after the decision totally blew my mind as Billups coach would not stop hackling the lady judge until she changed Billups loss to a win in order to keep his record perfect. So yes the records will show two winners in that fight and in my opinion that is pretty corrupt.
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