A blow-by-blow account of tonight’s proceedings will be posted as soon as it’s received from our correspondent at ringside, Joel “Broomsticks” Bauman.
Matt Vanda (43-12 with 23 knockouts) -vs- Phil Williams (11-3-1 with 10 knockouts), super middleweights, scheduled for 10 rounds – this fight was changed to a six-round exhibition due to “a licensing problem” that the promoters’ representative said was unknown to the promoter until 10am Saturday morning. The licensing problem is said to be related to Vanda’s last fight, a wipeout loss to Ossie Duran in New Jersey on November 12th.
Jamal James (now 3-0 with 3 knockouts) defeats Ryan Gronvold (now 1-6) by TKO in round 1 of 4 scheduled
Anthony Bonsante (now 32-12 with 18 knockouts) is defeated by Bobby Kliewer (now 11-12 with 5 knockouts) by decision after eight rounds.
Tony Lee (now 2-0 with no knockouts) defeats David Laque (now 2-7-1 with 2 knockouts) by decision after 4 rounds. Fight is said to be a thriller!
Antwan Robertson (now 6-4-1 with 4 knockouts) is defeated by Brad Patraw now (7-3 with 4 knockouts) by unanimous decision after six rounds. Patraw reclaims the Minnesota State bantamweight title that he lost to Robertson in 2009.
Don Tierney (now 3-2 with 1 kayo) is defeated by Bobby Butters Jr (now 1-1 with no kayos), light middleweights, scheduled for 4 rounds
John Jackson (now 15-1-1 with 13 knockouts) and Willshaun Boxley (now 6-7-1 with 4 knockouts) fight to a majority draw after 6 rounds
Jonathan Perez (now 1-0 with 1 kayo) defeats Randy Ronchi (now 0-2) by TKO in round 1 of 4 scheduled
I heard from a very reliable source that Vanda / Williams fight was because of a failed drug test
That’s a very plausible explanation, but not the one that I was given.
The people behind me at the fights also knew that as the reason also. After all the years he has boxed Vanda should known better. No excuse for that kind of stuff. All the fights were good fights and was a small crowd.
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