It was a clean sweep for local boxers last night at the Bang Time Boxing card at Du Burns Arena in Baltimore, MD.
"The American Child" Nick Kisner of Glen Burnie, MD won a four-round unanimous decision over the debuting Tauheed "Tiger" Wheeler of DC. All judge's scorecards were 40-36. Kisner is 4-0, two KO's.
Russ "The Hammer" Shiflett of Baltimore returned to action with a four-round unanimous decision win over the always-tough Andre "Da Heat" Hemphill of Philadelphia, PA. Shiflett scored a shutout on all three cards and remains undefeated at 8-0-1, four KO"s. Hemphill falls to 8-16-2, five KO's.
"The Persecutor" Mike Paschall of Baltimore was dropped in the first round but battled back to win a four-round unanimous decision over "The Kansas City Timebomb" Mickey Scarborough of Kansas City, MO. Paschall is now 20-2-1, four KO's while Scarborough is 5-2, five KO's.
In a heavyweight contest, DC's Maurice "The Freight Train" Byarm needed a single right to the body to stop Jason Freeman of Dover, OH at 1:16 of the first round. Byarm remains undefeated at 7-0, five KO's. Freeman loses for the first time and is 5-1-1, two KO's.
Severn, MD junior middleweight Sherman "The Tank" Artis won a four-round majority decision in his pro debut over Martinsburg, WVA's Stephen Franklin, who is now 1-1, one KO.
In the opening contest, Baltimore light heavyweight Dale Robeson-El stopped the debuting Shakee Williamson of Danville, VA at 2:00 of the third round. Robeson-El is now 3-0, two KO's.
Bang Time Boxing made its debut as a promotion. Paschall and Renee Aiken served as matchmakers. Also, World Wrestling Entertainment hall of famer Nikolai Volkoff sang the (American, not Russian) National Anthem.
Here is the BATB Post-Fight Wrap-Up with myself and Alec Kohut of MaxBoxing.com:
Gabcast! Boxing Along the Beltway #223 - Post-Fight From Du Burns!
MaxBoxing.com's Alec Kohut and I recap the Bang Time Boxing card at Du Burns Arena in Baltimore. "The Persecutor" Mike Paschall, who fought, co-promoted and co-matchmade the card, joins us.
The kid Maurice "Freight Train" Byarm stole the show with that one punch knockout to the body this guy is the real thing best fight of the night slow the that Train down WOW. Thanks to Bang time Boxing what a show!!
ReplyDeletehow many people were there
ReplyDeleteAbout 750.
ReplyDeleteit wasn't sold out? Jake always sells out.
ReplyDeletebig win by Russ Shiflett. he must be able to fight a little bit by coming back after such a long layoff over a quality guy like Hemphill and then beating him convincingly. big win.
ReplyDeleteWhat does hot-dogging mean?
ReplyDeleteIn this case, fooling around, dancing, not taking care of your job seriously. That's what Artis was doing in this bout.
ReplyDeleteGood card. Byarm was impressive. Shifflet did well for a layoff. Slick Nick had an easy fight. Mike started slow but finished strong. Artis clowned way too much. He has skill but needs to show more of it.
ReplyDeleteAmateur fights were pretty good. All said wasn't a bad first card.
Jake doesnt always sell out or ever sell out for that matter.
gary what was the names of the amatures if you know thanks
ReplyDeleteTank Stank(arlis)cheap ali impersonator,would rather TRY to look good than fight/win,Easy win for Kisner,coming along well,169 still too big for Paschall
ReplyDeleteOf course the locals won there.
ReplyDeletewhat else do you expect to happen in Baltimore?
Amateurs on the card:
ReplyDeleteWalter Robinson RSC-2 Dave Hartman
Brandon Stein RSC-1 Justin Rose
Angelo DePasquale defeated Terry Cannon
I definitely don't think he wasn't taking his job seriously. As strange as it may seem thats how he fights. Thats how he fought as an amatuer and thats how he spars. He has tremendous tools he has good movement and a good stick. Most boxing purists won't like his style and thats understandable, but I think he does it to keep his opponent off, frustated, and thinking. If its succesful more power to him. We will see what happens when/if he steps up the competition.
ReplyDeleteArtis may be using this style to confuse and frustrate his opponent but he is doing it at the expense of building his audience. People who come to these events want to see action, courage, violence and drama. Artis’ behavior is, at best, a distraction and at worst, a reason not to go to the fights at all. As an amateur, Carney Bowman was a master at taunting his opponents. He would talk to them during the fight, tell them their mistakes, tell them they fight like a girl, tell them what he was going to do next and then do it, his comments were infinite. What the audience saw was an opponent out of his game and Carney taking care of business. Artis appears to have skills. If he wants to make money in this sport he needs to re-think his approach to building an audience.
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