Here are the weights for tonight's fighters that are participating on the Tac Promotions card at the Tysons Playground in Vienna, Virginia!
Akeem Jackson 145.8 - Damon Towns 150.4
William Davis 166.2 - Aaron Thorne 174.6
Anthony Dave 137.2 - Taurean Venable 135.4
Antonio Allen 150 - Chris Rowllins 152.6
Larry Smith 150 - Justin Biggs 155.6
William Townsell 163.4 - Keithland King 163
Micheal Davis? - Sam Crossed 197.6
Matt Murphy 146 - Michael Anderson 148.6
On Saturday, December 28th at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA, Baltimore MD's Gervonta "Tank" Davis and Yuriorkis Gamboa of Miami, FL by way of Cuba will be in a championship bout for the vacant WBA Lightweight title.
A number of local Maryland fighters will be on the card. In a 10-round welterweight bout, Baltimore's Malik "Iceman" Hawkins (17-0, 10 KO's) will face undefeated Darwin Price (16-0, 9 KO's) of Houston, TX.
Kareem "Reemo" Martin (13-2-1, 4 KO's) will be in a eight-round contest against Jeremy Cuevas (12-1, 9 KO's) of Philadelphia, PA.
Malik "King" Warren (2-0, 2 KO's) out of Baltimore, MD will be in a four-round lightweight bout with a opponent TBA.
In a added feature to the card will be the daughter of trainer Kenny Ellis, Mia "Killabee" Ellis out of Baltimore, MD making her professional debut against Crystal Byers of Ohio.
Here are the results reported by Daniel Cork from ringside at the Ponytail Promotions card that took place Saturday night at the Dulles Sportsplex in Sterling, VA.
(Photos by Daniel Cork)
In the main/feature, debuting Joelle Flores by UD 2x 40-36 and 39-37, against Carma Radford. Solid fight, pretty competitive, I thought — but a bit of an odd ending. Henry Jones read the scores in the order/manner above — two judges with 40-36 and the third 39-37, without naming Flores yet — and there was enough outcry from the audience that Henry stopped reading, went over to the commission table, asked them to “make sure”, and then reiterated the scores. Odd for that strong a reaction, apparently at the possibility that the “other fighter” might have been credited with winning a round!
Tiara Brown by UD, 3x 80-72, against Simone Aparecida Da Silva. Workmanlike, per usual; Da Silva with some decent shots, but Brown never in any danger.
Joan Planas by stoppage, 2:02 of round 3, against Gladimir Jacinto, in battle of pro debutants. Good exchanges in round 1. Planas scored knockdowns against Jacinto twice in round 2, but Jacinto kept battling. More back and forth continued in round 3, Planas with an edge but Jacinto still making some returns, until Planas started a sequence against the far ropes and Brent Bovell opted to stop it.
Marlon Bolen by TKO at end of 2/beginning of 3 against Kevin Womack Jr. Both sprinted into the fight, with Bolen in particular seeming to want to try to end things with an explosive quick burst, but Womack returned in kind. Early in round 2, Womack knocked Bolen down (alas, again, blocked view of shot by Bolen’s body), but that only seemed to spur Bolen on, surging back and winning the rest of the round. At end of the round break, one of the inspectors/doctors indicated that Womack was hyperventilating; with that advice, bout was halted.
Calvin Mends by stoppage, 0:52 of round 3, against William Brown. Brown got some good shots in, too, particularly in round 1. Mends caught Brown with a nice body shot in round 2; Brown took a couple steps to his right and took a knee, but continued through the rest of the round. Mends downed Brown again in round 3, after which bout was halted.
Dante Cox by UD, 3x 40-35, against Elliot Brown. Brown more solid/competitive than the scores suggest — Cox certainly won the rounds, but he was effusive/gracious in postfight chatter with Brown.
Unanimous draw between Dionte Burts and Darel Harris, 3x 38-38 — and a very legitimate draw, both guys landing good shots and very busy throughout.
Mack Allison IV by stoppage over Mike Fowler, 2:09 of round 1. Some back and forth in opening minute before Allison took over and finally scoring knockdown. (Right in front of me, but with Fowler’s boy blocking the shot...this was a recurring theme with the night’s knockdowns!) Fowler took his time getting up, beat the count, but Brent Bovell waved it off after another look.
George Harris by UD, 39-37 and 2x 40-36, over Tony Lopez. Pretty careful fight by both...
(Photos by David Algranati)
Hyattsville, MD featherweight Cobia "The Soldier" Breedy won by sixth-round TKO over Titus Williams of Long Island, NY. This was the final bout of the evening at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York to close the Charlo vs. Hogan card.
Breedy and Titus both had a busy opening round. Breedy throwing the most punches with Williams being the more accurate of the two. Breedy shifted gears and took charge in the second-round to hurt Titus on a number of occasions. Williams bounced back in the third-round to land some good shots on Breedy to hurt him in the final minute of the round. Breedy gathered himself to box very well in the fourth-round having Williams to be more of a defensive fighter.
Williams turned things around when he sent Breedy to the canvas for an eight count in round five. Breedy recovered and held on to complete the round. Breedy came back strong after recovering from the knockdown by dropping Williams late in the sixth-round and the bout was stopped by the referee at 2:16 of the round.
Cobia Breedy improved to (15-0, 5 KO's) while Titus Williams suffers the third loss of his career and falls to (9-3, 4 KO's).
