Mykquan Williams dominates rugged Matt Doherty;
Shelito Vincent escapes with Majority Decision over
Calixta Salgado
in Broadway Boxing Co-Feature
By
Alex Pierpaoli
As
is our tradition here, if we covered a fight live and tweeted details from
ringside we like to post a recap later for any of you anti-social media
types. Here is a chronological recounting of our live-tweets from
ringside, made slightly more grammatical and a little bit less hashtaggie.
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card! Featuring @shelitosway
& @MarvelousMyke
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Fighting now in Bout 1, light heavyweights Lennox
Allen 171lbs of NYC versus Willis Lockett 173lbs of Tacoma
Park , MD
southpaw Lennox Allen in charge through 3. Lockett down but
not hurt in round one. Down again just now off a looping right hook, high on
the head. Allen followed it with a hook to the body that sent Lockett down but
it was the temple-shot that did the damage. TKO 3 for Allen
*The official time was 3:00 of the 3rd
*The official time was 3:00 of the 3rd
Up now in Bout 2, super lightweight Oscar Bonilla
138lbs of Bridgeport , CT
wow, this has broken into a fight, right quick!! Both men
leaning forward, shoulder to shoulder, jowl-to-jowl banging. They tangle up.
Ref breaks them, again they come forward. Bonilla aggressively, crowding the
southpaw from Philly
the final minute was a lot more tactical. Close round.
Bonilla the aggressor but Wise countered smartly and often.
Bonilla hammering away at Wise who has suddenly gone
non-violent in a neutral corner. Wise has his gloves high but Bonilla swarming
him and blasting past the guard. Wise not responding at all. Ref. steps in to
stop it. Bonilla scores a TKO!
Wise looking hurt & absolutely crestfallen on the stool
after the stoppage. Doctor Michael Schwartz examining him. Could have been a
damaged jaw that took all the fight out of Wise. Replay shows Bonilla slammed
him with a head-spinning right hand to the mouth. TKO2 Bonilla 1:20
next up from Foxwoods! Bout 3, super lightweight
Adrian Sosa of Lawrence, MA 141lbs versus Darnell Pettis 137lbs of Cleveland,
OH, 6 rounds
Adrian Sosa just scored with a lovely double left hook to
the body then head, seconds later he lands another left followed by a speedy
short right that makes Pettis do a rubber-legged giant step backwards. Sosa's
round, big time.
Pettis is a brave, aggressive guy and Sosa is smartly and
artfully nailing him on his way in, using his own momentum against him. Wow!
Another beautiful right to the chin staggers Pettis again. He refuses to go
down but he's in trouble! Sosa picking his shots. Ref steps in. TKO
The official time of the stoppage was 1:24 of round 2. And that was really a beautiful display
of speedy, accurate punching and really wise decision making in his choice of
shots. He doesn't waste anything. If a KO can look pretty and brutal, and they
can, that one sure did.
Bout 4, super welterweight Hurshidbek Normatov of Uzbekistan,
fighting out of Brooklyn, NY, 151lbs versus Alexis Gaytan 155lbs of Mission,
TX, 6rds
Normatov in charge for the first half of the first, beating
Gaytan to the punch, bloodying his lip, until Gaytan nails him with a right
that stunned him. Normatov moving more now, boxing from a distance.
Normatov landing heavily. Gaytan trying for the belly with
some success. Gaytan is being out-volumed here. Time called due to an
accidental head-butt and a bloody cut around Gaytan's right eye. Action
continues...
Gaytan is a gutsy fighter. He's bleeding and he was on the
wrong end of a vicious flurry when the fight resumes after the doc checked his
cut. Bell
Normatov has quick hands. He blasts out Gaytan's mouthpiece
with a speedy right hook in close. Gaytan still trying to land on Normatov,
hoping to stun him again like in the first.
Normatov was likely a tremendous amateur. His style is quick
of fist and foot, in and out, behind sharp, stinging straight punches and
always moving, moving, moving.
Gaytan looks clear-headed and undeterred between rounds. His
corner has done a good job on the cut.
Gaytan just fought a good round and may have gotten a little
lucky with Ref. Murdaugh's call of a knockdown in the final seconds of the 4th
when Normatov sagged into the ropes and sort of sat down on them after a hard
body shot.
Normatov has really prominent cheekbones and
"looks" like he may cut easily. Of course he's gonna have to get hit
a lot more than Gaytan is hitting him to find that out. Gaytan definitely doing
better in these rounds though. He's the aggressor, Normatov on the run at end
of 5th
OH MY GOD!! Gaytan just went to sleep from a monstrous right
hook he never saw coming. Out before he hit the floor and face first into the
canvas.
Gaytan up on the stool now. The doctors working with him.
The medical staff here in CT is top notch. They're getting him up in stages.
Gaytan on his feet now to applause from the crowd. Both fighters embrace.
Official time of the KO coming up...
The official time was :41 of round 6. Normatov now 7-0 (4)
and that's going to be a #BroadwayBoxing
highlight reel KO for twenty-eighteen.
Here comes the co-main event of the evening! @shelitosway of Providence ,
RI Baranquilla ,
Colombia
*Silgado is from Tolu, Colombia
*Silgado is from Tolu, Colombia
very cautious first from both these women, which I found a
little surprising considering it was their 9th together. Silgado in the role of
boxer with Vincent the aggressive puncher, pressing the action, Silgado
countering. Nothing serious landed yet.
Silgado connected with a hard right uppercut-left hook that
seemed to get Vincent's attention in round 2.
Vincent complaining to Ref. Danny Schiavone about being
elbowed. He warns Silgado to knock it off and Vincent to stop complaining and
fight.
That elbow may have lit a fire in Vincent, she comes roaring
out of her corner in the fourth. But Salgado is making Vincent work here.
Silgado landing lots of solid uppercuts. Vincent seems a little uninspired
here.
Two good left hooks from Vincent in the final seconds of the
fifth but this seems to be Salgado's fight to lose right now. Vincent needs to
pour it on in these final 3 rounds. Salgado has landed the more meaningful
shots thus far according to this observer.
Vincent is aggressive but she's not moving her head on the
way in at all and she's eating punches on her way in.
Vincent flurried a bit in the final thirty seconds of the
6th, may have stolen that round. Good body shots landed by the Rhode Islander,
good exchange in the final seconds of round 7 but again,
although Vincent did much of the pressing and coming forward, Silgado landed
the solid shots in that encounter.
Well, that one is in the books. There were several close
rounds and I'm not scoring them because I'm tweeting my ass off and it's hard
to type and see every single punch but I don't think Vincent won a single round
definitively. Maybe the first 2 close ones...
Lots of boos from this crowd for the official scorecards, a
Majority Decision goes to Vincent by scores of 76-76, overruled by two scores
of 78-74. Vincent talking to the crowd, says she wants a rematch with Heather
Hardy. She was promised one 3 years ago.
Time for the Main Event, super lightweight @MarvelousMyke
140lbs of East Hartford Salem , MA
Marvelous @MarvelousMyke has Doherty in lots of trouble... He's up
after two knockdowns but he's staying up on sheer will. They may stop this
between rounds.
Looked like both knockdowns were produced off of left hooks.
The first was a lot worse on Doherty than the second. He touched the canvas
with both gloves and popped right up from the second.
Doherty just landed a solid left hook of his own that got
Williams' attention. Mykquan taking his time. He's not rushing to reel Doherty
in yet, there's still fight left in him.
@MarvelousMyke
looked at Matt Doherty at the bell to end the third as if he was surprised the Salem
Williams landing the much flashier, significant shots but
Doherty is bolder than bold and constantly trying, fighting back competitively.
Very good opponent for the young prospect @MarvelousMyke
@MarvelousMyke
stuck his tongue out at Matt Doherty at the end of rd 5 and Doherty held out
his arms as if to say "come get me! I'm still here." Williams landed
much heavier in the fifth, scoring with a big right & left hook which may
have been the hardest one he's thrown 2nite
These two guys are mugging at each other at the end of each
round. Seems as if it's Williams doing most of the mocking and maybe he's a
little frustrated he hasn't been able to hurt Doherty again. He's winning these
rounds though.
this is entertaining even though @MarvelousMyke is
likely winning every round. Doherty keeps trying and the knockdowns in the
first must have been because he was cold because he's been hit a lot harder
since with no effect.
this one goes to the scorecards and it sure didn't start off
looking like it would...
The judges see that one all the same way, 80-73 x 3,
Unanimous Decision for @MarvelousMyke who learned a lot in there tonight.
Sometimes you hit a guy with your best shots & he doesn't go. Williams
never got frustrated, never walked into something foolish, he maintained his
poise.
* the official cards were 77-73 and 80-73 x 2
* the official cards were 77-73 and 80-73 x 2
That's all from here, Fight-Fans! Thanks for following
along! I'm @FistThingsFirst
and I'll see you again next time from Ringside!!
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