Early Results from Chumash Casino, Santa Ynez, California.
Posted by Igor Frank on 02.05.2010
Rivera and Lateef score knock outs, Ali and Serrano are also victorious.
In the opening light middleweight bout Ruben Rivera (4-0-1,3KO'S) out of Maywood, California made a quick work out of his opponent Derrick Thomas (2-9, 1 KO) The bout was stopped at 49 seconds of the first round after Ruben landed ten unanswered punches.
Jose Pacheco (2-11-6) from Las Vegas took on a local pug from Santa Maria, California, Rufino Serrano (4-2) in a four round featherweight contest. Serrano used his height, reach and speed advantage to dominate; he bombarded Pacheco with combinations, at times on the verge of stoppage, but could never quite finish the job. All three judges were in agreement scoring the bout 40-36 for Serrano.
Heavyweights Emad "Magic" Ali from New York and Chris" The Dream" Green from Denver Colorado collided in a six round battle. After a pretty competitive first round Ali opened up in the second and unloaded combination after combination while Green was content to cover up for the most part. Both combatants landed some meaningful shots in the third, but in the fourth Ali was more active once again and controlled the action. In the end Ali was simply the busier fighter and thus remained undefeated. Judges scored this bout 59-55, 59-55, 60-54 in favor of Ali.
Unbeaten African heavyweight, currently training at Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, California, Kayode Lateef (10-0,9KO'S) took on Canadian, David Whittom (10-12-1). After dominating the first round Lateef landed a left hook to the temple of Canadian fighter .Whittom went down and was counted out by referee Jerry Cantu. The time of the stoppage was 1:23 of the second stanza.
Welterweights Anthony McDavitt from Long Beach, California and Romero Javier from Compton treated the crowd to a spirited four round brawl. With not much skill but a lot of will they banged each other with no time to breathe exciting fans with each bomb thrown. Anthony McDavitt was just a little bit more aggressive and thus earned a majority decision victory. Score cards were as follows: 38-38,40-36,39-37.
