D'Mitrius Ballard And Yamaguchi Falcoa Leave NABF Middleweight Title In The Ring!

Tonight at The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, California, D’Mitrius Ballard of Temple Hills, MD battled Yamaguchi Falcao of Sao Paolo, Brazil to a 10-round majority draw. 

It was a somewhat slow start for Ballard in the early rounds. Falcoa used his jab and went to the body of Ballard to put rounds in the bag. Ballard did a good job of fighting his way back into the contest by landing some convincing shots that had Falcoa on his heels. Ballard's late round surges seemed to get him the win but only one judge saw the contest in Ballard's favor with the score of 97-93. The other two judges scored the contest the same at 95-95 to leave the vacant NABF Middleweight title up for grabs.

Both fighters add their first draw to their records. D’Mitrius Ballard is now (20-0-1, 13 KO's) while Yamaguchi Falcao is now (16-1-1, 7 KO's).