The Washington Golden Gloves Championships included a number of exciting title bouts and some historical experiences Saturday in front of a packed house at Rosecroft Raceway in Fort Washington, MD.
In the Open Division, 123-pounder Shakell Daly of Diamonds N The Ruff won the title in that division defeating defending champion Dwayne Holmes, Jr. of Sugar Ray Leonard Gym. Daly was named the Outstanding Boxer of the Open Division, an accomplishment made even more special because Daly's father Kelvin, won the same Outstanding Boxer trophy at the Washington Golden Gloves 32 years ago.
Daly's teammate, Demitrius Lewis, captured the title at 114 pounds with a win over Kameron Rick-Holmes of Dream Team. Diamonds N The Ruff won three titles in the Open Division including a walkover win for Ladasia Lewis in the Female 141-Pound class. Only Baltimore Boxing's Deshawn Chase prevented a clean sweep as he defeated Deont'e Washington in the 152-Pound championship. Diamonds N The Ruff captured the Open Division trophy for the tournament.
The night was also a historic one for Tommy Avelar of Sugar Ray Leonard as he won his fourth straight title at 132 Pounds defeating Isaiah Harris of Dog Pound. Avelar has competed in the last five 132-pound championship bouts.
In the 141-Pound championship, Malik Warren of Upton Boxing captured the title by defeating Jalen Jones of Limelite. However, Warren will not head to the Regional Golden Gloves Championships. Instead, Warren will make his professional debut on Friday, April 26th at The Met in Philadelphia, PA joining his gym mate Malik Hawkins.
Another Upton boxer, Jeff Bozier, Jr., took the title at 165 Pounds by defeating Yohannes Rezene of Sugar Ray Leonard. Two other boxers won their titles by walkover -- Joel Tchatchunij of Champions at 178 Pounds and Ezri Turner from Headbangers at 201 Pounds.
Leading the way in the Novice Division was Saquan Epps of NOMIS, who captured the title at 132 pounds, defeating Elonte Kemp of Limelite. Epps's teammate, Damian Pringle, took the title at 201 Pounds with a win over Tyrone Russ of Woodland. Epps would be chosen as the Outstanding Boxer in the Novice Division and NOMIS would earn the Novice Team Trophy.
Devante Alexander of Knowledge Boxing would earn the only stoppage of the evening with an RSC win over Tre'von Wells of Dream Team at 141 Pounds.
In other Novice title bouts, Emanuel Burroughs (Old School) defeated Ra'shawn Jones (Sugar Ray Leonard) at 114 Pounds. At 123 Pounds, Demarco Kennedy (Champions) took the title over Anthony Kareem (Cherry Lane). Stefon Jordan (Champions) won the 152-Pound title with a win over Eric Middleton (NOMIS). At 165 Pounds, Stephan Burden (American Muay Thai) took the crown with a win over Michael Hines (#11 Overcomers).
Walter Sanders (Sweet Science) won the 178 Pound championship with a win over Sunday Akin (Laurel) and Ricardo Volcin (Old School) took the title at 201+ Pounds with a victory over Steven Sparks (Mad House).
The Regional Golden Gloves will take place on Saturday, April 27th at Rosecroft. Prior to that, Rosecroft will play host to the Virginia/North Carolina Golden Gloves on Friday and Saturday, April 12th and 13th.
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