By Pattee Mak
On Friday, April 22, 2011, Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing presented live ESPN action at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. Breidis Prescott of Barranquilla, Colombia (24-2-0) went up against Bayan Jargal of Ulan-Bator, Mongolia (15-2-3) in a 10 round light welterweight showdown. The first couple of rounds started off slow. Each opponent exchanged punches. Towards the end of round 5 Prescott devoured his opponent with left and rights. I wondered if the referee was going to stop the match but Jargal later found inner strength and countered.
In the 7th round Jargal appears to be fatigued. The remainder rounds both opponents gave it their all. The judges score card reads 99-91, 99-90 and 100-90. Naming the winner Breidis Prescott by unanimous decision.
Junior middleweights Demetrius Andrade of Providence, Rhode Island (13-0-0) vs. Omar Bell of Montego Bay, Jamaica (8-2-0) in an 8 round fight. Demetrius “The Hammer” Andrade knocked down Omar Bell 1 min 31 seconds in the 2nd round. The winner Andrade by way of KO.
Heavyweights “The Future” Joe Hanks of Newark, New Jersey (16-0-0) vs. “The Baby Boy” Terrell Nelson of Plainsfield, New Jersey (8-12-0) in a 6 round fight. Hanks won the bout at the end of Round 3 by TKO.
Cruiserweights Nicholas Lavin of Yonkers, New York (2-1-0) vs. “The Crazy Uncle” Kevin Cobbs of Burlington, Vermont (1-0-0) in a 4 round fight. Kevin’s debut performance was very impressive. In the 1st round Cobbs won by KO, 1 minute 30 seconds into the round.
Junior middleweights Kevin Rooney, Jr. of Catskill, New York (1-0-0) vs. David Navarro of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (0-3-0) in a 4 round fight. Rooney’s debut performance was also very impressive. 1st and 2nd round Rooney knocked Navarro to the canvas. All the judges scored the bout 40-34. Rooney won by majority decision.
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.
