Ringside with Pattee Mak
On Thursday, March 22, 2012, Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports presented “Home Invasion” at the Twinn River Casino in Rhode Island during their new Thursday night fight series. Super Middleweights Thomas “Souljah” Falowo, a fan favorite of Rhode Island fought against Troy Artis of New York.
Round 1 and 2, Falowo controlled the rounds. Round 3 Artis came out more confident and aggressive. Towards the end of the round both fighters came to fight, exchanging punches. Round 5 again Artis came out of his corner strong. Falowo looking to keep his perfect record fought a tough fight against Artis. Both fighters thrown a ton of punches but no one could get the knock down in the end the judges scored it 58-56, 59-56 and 59-56. Falowo won by UD.
Falowo increases his record to 6-0-0 and Artis decreases his record to 3-3-1.
During some pre-fight chatter I asked Falowo “This will be your 6th fight. Are you looking for the big KO against Artis or however you win you win?” Falowo answered “I want to win, not really chasing a KO. I will give it my all if he can stand it. I’ll take the decision. If not than I’ll take the KO, either way it’s gonna be a crowd pleaser.”
Other bouts of the evening:
6 Rounds – Supper Middleweights: VLADINE BIOSSE vs. GEORGE ARMENTA. Winner Biosse by UD. The Judges scored it 59-54, 59-54 and 59-55.
6 rounds – Welterweights: JASON PIRES vs. EDDIE SOTO. Winner Pires by Split Decision, 59-55, 56-58 and 58-56.
4 rounds – Super Middleweights: BENNY COSTANTINO vs. YOLEXCY LEIVA. Winner Leiva, round 3, 42 seconds by TKO. Costantino had a large welt over left eye. His eye appeared shut to me. All in all an explosive fight.
4 rounds – Welterweights: ALEKSANDRA LOPES vs. ASHLEIGH CURRY. Winner by UD Lopes. Judges scored it 40-36, 39-37 and 39-37.
4 rounds – Welterweights: JOHNATHAN VAZQUEZ vs. JEFF ANDERSON. Winner Vazquez by KO round 1, 1 minute, 30 seconds.
4 rounds – Super Middleweights KEVIN COBBS vs. AHMAD MICKENS. Cobbs winner by UD. Judges scored it 39-37, 40-36, 40-36.
4 rounds – Middleweights: ALEX AMPARO vs. JOHN DOWNEY. Amparo winner by KO round 1, 1 minute, 2 seconds.
4 rounds – Light Welterweights: CARLOS “BAM BAM” HERNANDEZ vs. ROBERT BRANDO-HUNT. After the end of round 3 referee Danny Schiavone called a halt to the bout due to the blue corner being unable to continue due to cuts. Winner by TKO Hernandez.
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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.
