NAKASH REMAINS UNDEFEATED; GRAZIANO SCORES ANOTHER FIRST ROUND KNOCKOUT TO HIGHLIGHT CANCER AWARENESS NIGHT AT THE LEGENDARY BLUE HORIZON

Posted on | October 4, 2009 | No Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PHILADELPHIA (OCTOBER 5, 2009)—Ran Nakash to another step towards fighting for a world title as he scored a tough unanimous decision over Gary Gomez in an eight cruiserweight bout that highlighted the sixth annual Cancer Awareness night at The Legendary Blue Horizon this past Friday night.

For Cancer Awareness night, Blue Horizon Boxing Inc. had Cancer groups from the area handing out information about the dreaded disease and honored oncologist, Dr. Edith Mitchell.

Nakash was very efficient in scoring the unanimous decision over tough veteran Gary Gomez in the main event.

Nakash used his speed advantage to land quick combinations but the game Gomez kept coming forward and provided Nakash his stiffest challenge to day.

Graziano was hyped as being a knockout artist and he did not disappoint. Fans could tell early that he has a fan friendly as he battered late-replacement Andre Hemphill inside of one round two keep his impressive knockout streak intact at 7-0 with seven knockouts including six in the opening frame.

Other winners from Friday night included Mondre Pope’s close split decision over Gerardo Robles in a six round Lightweight bout, Darrell Jones defeating Achmad Tuba in a Jr. Middleweight bout; Joe Alonso remaining undefeated with a unanimous decision over Vaughn Anderson; Ryan Carson stopping Jonathan Ocassio in the last second of their Jr. Lightweight bout and Paul Fernandez unanimous decision over Quincy Johnson in a Featherweight bout.

The fights were streamed all over the world on www.gofightlive.tv and can still be purchased for $5.99 by clicking:

http://www.gofightlive.tv/showEvent.do?event=517

COMPLETE RESULTS

8 Rounds – Cruiserweights—Ran Nakash (21-0), 209 lbs of Haifa, Isarel U DEC over Gary Gomez (18-11-1) 203 lbs of Salt Lake City, UT… Scores were 79-73; 79-74 and 78-74

4 Rounds – Cruiserweights—Jeremiah Graziano (7-0, 7 KO’s) 196 ½ lbs of Kansas City, MO TKO 1 (2:35) over Andre Hemphill (8-13-2) 184 lbs of Philadelphia, PA

6 rounds – Lightweights – Mondre Pope (3-0-1) 135 lbs of Norfolk, VA SPL DEC over Gerardo Robles (9-8) 133 ½ lbs of Kansas City, MO… Scores were 60-54, 58-56 for Pope, 58-56 for Robles

4 Rounds Jr. Middleweights- Darrell Jones (2-0) 150 lbs of Philadelphia U DEC over Achmad Tuba (1-1) 153 lbs of Nazareth.. Scores were 40-35, 38-37 and 38-37

4 Rounds Jr. Middleweights – Joe Alonso (2-0) 154 lbs of Bellmawr, NJ U DEC over Vaughn Anderson (0-1) 152 lbs of Philadelphia, PA

4 Rounds – Jr. Lightweights—Ryan Carson (2-0, 2 KO’s) 133 lbs of Norristown, PA TKO 4 (2:59) over Jonathan Ocassio (0-5) 130 lbs of Philadelphia, PA

4 Rounds – Featherweights – Paul Fernandez (5-2-1) 126 lbs of Philadelphia, PA U DEC over Quincy Johnson (0-4-1) 125 ½ lbs of Cincinnati, OH… Scores were 40-36 on all cards

The next show at The Legendary Blue Horizon will be Friday night December 4th.