By Michael Amakor | July 11, 2011
In a war between fellow compatriots Mexican veteran and multi-divisional titlist Jhonny Gonzalez (49- 7, 43kos) successfully defended his WBC Featherweight title against the valiant challenge from former IBA Featherweight Champion Tomas Villa (23- 8, 14kos) by stopping him with a body shot in the fourth round on the undercard of the Paul Williams versus Erislandy Lara fight card in the fourth round on July 9, 2010 at the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
