Undercard Results From Trick Entertainment And DC Fight Night Card In SE Washington, DC!

(Photos by Quentin Ngobeh, FairShakeBoxing)

In the opening bout of the Tricky Entertainment / DC Fight Night, Jonathan Conde got his first win by first-round knockout over DC's Taurean Venable. 

Conde sent Venable to the canvas twice. 

The first knockdown came when Conte landed a left hook and the second knockdown came from another left hook followed by a right hand to end the contest at 1:31. Conte is now (1-2, 1 KO) while Venable starts his career off at (0-1).

In a scheduled four-round heavyweight contest George Harris defeated Antwaun Taylor of Cincinatti, OH by knockout. Harris did a good jod of staying calm as he made good adjustments to the wild style Taylor introduced. Harris landed a perfectly time uppercut to drop Taylor to the canvas twice in the first-round. Taylor was able to finish the first-round. In the next round Harris landed a hard right hook to send Taylor back to the canvas for the final time. The referee counted Taylor out at 1:08 of the second round.

Harris improve to (4-0, 4 KO's) whole Taylor is now (14-11-1, 1 KO).

Renaldo Gaines out of District Heights, MD won by unanimous decision over Eduardo Melendez of Ponce PR. 

Gaines and Melendez battled in the center of the ring during the majority of this four-round contest. Gaines started off looking in control of the opening round, but Melendez started to land counter shots on Gaines to make the fight look very close. The fighters gave the crowd a show as they landed some clean shots on each other. Gaines would land some great uppercuts while Melendez returned with some hard straight right hands. All three judges scored the contest for Gaines , 39-37 twice and 40-36.

Gaines improves to (10-2, 3 KO's) while Melendez fall to (5-26,1 KO).

Patrick Harris wins by DQ over Anthony Woods.
Harris executed  some great bodywork in this bout. He opened up the first-round using his speed by landing counter shots off of the slow jabs Woods was attempting. In round two Harris went to the body of Woods more aggressively. The body was the key as Harris used those shots to set up some hard left hands. Early in the third round a point was taken away from Woods without warning. Before the round could end two more points were taken ultimately ending the contest by disqualification at 2:06 of the third round.

Harris improves to (16-0, 8 KO's) as Woods falls to (10-24, 3 KO's). 


In a featherweight bout Jordan "ShortDog" White of Washington, DC won by six-round unanimous decision over veteran Christian Esquivel of Temoya, Mexico.

White did a good job of keeping his distance to establish the use of his jab in the  opening round. He used the jab to open up opportunities for him to slide inside to land some good body and head shots on Esquivel. Round two was a little different. White came out throwing hard shots, but Esquivel didn't back down by landing some good counter shots on White. In round three White landed some hard combinations that sent Esquivel falling into the ropes which could have been called a knockdown but wasn't. When it looked as if White was hurting Esquivel, Esquivel would fire back some good shots of his own. The exchange of power favored White at the midway point of the bout, but Esquivel wasn't giving in. In round five White landed a low blow causing the referee to give Esquivel time to recover. White closed out the six and final round by pinning Esquivel against the ropes and landing some hard shots as the bell sounded. White received scores in his favor from all the judges 59-55, and 60-54 twice.

White improves to (8-1,  6 KO's) while the vetran Esquivel falls to (30-18-2, 23 KO's).