TONY SALAM MAKES HISTORY BY WINNING PRIZEFIGHTER PUBLIC VOTE

Posted on | June 14, 2010 | No Comments

‘Sugar’ set for big chance after pipping DeGale and Groves to final spot

TONY ‘Sugar’ Salam has made history by becoming the first boxer to be voted into a Prizefighter event.

Londoner Salam, 26, was victorious in the public vote and will now be competing in Prizefighter Super-Middleweights at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, on Wednesday, June 30.

“This is why the United Kingdom is the one of the greatest countries on the planet,” said a delighted Salam.

“I had everybody from every race and place voting for me.

“This is the biggest opportunity in my life and I’m going to show the world that I’m the best and most entertaining super-middleweight out there.

“All I have ever wanted is a chance and now I’m taking part in the greatest competition in boxing and I promise all the fans that I will not let them down and will fight with everything I have got.”

Promoters Matchroom Sport threw open the final spot to the public via voting on the official website www.prizefighter.co.uk and more than 5,000 votes were received.

Salam gained more nominations than Olympic gold medalist James DeGale and Commonwealth champion George Groves, while undefeated Welsh fighter Jeff Evans was also well backed.

Salam lives in Stoke Newington in north London and will be backed by a large amount of support at the event, the 13th Prizefighter tournament.

After a glittering amateur career that saw him represent England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and win a British ABA title in 2004, Salam is regarded as one of the most exciting prospects in boxing.

He has fought ten times as a professional with five of his nine victories coming inside the distance, including a triumph over Richard Horton in January 2009 to win the Southern Area belt.

Salam has also beaten some Prizefighter stars including Cruiserweights champion Ovill McKenzie and Nick Okoth, the Cruiserweights II runner-up.

Salam’s manager Spencer Fearon, who led a Facebook campaign to vote for Salam, believes Salam will thrive on June 30th.

“I’m so pleased that the fans have given Tony this chance,” said Fearon.

“Prizefighter is everything that boxing needs and this platform will show just why Tony has been avoided in the past.

“To get more votes than DeGale and Groves shows his popularity and I want to say a big thank you to the voting fans, without them we wouldn’t be in it to win it.”

“The people have spoken and Tony ‘Sugar’’ Salam will get his big chance on 30th June at York Hall,” said Matchroom Sport’s Eddie Hearn.

“Prizefighter is all about giving prospects the platform to showcase their skills, heart and determination and the profile that a Prizefighter victory gives you, puts you straight in line for a title shot.’

There are two further changes as Liverpool’s Tony Dodson and Scotland’s Stevie McGuire have both had to withdraw due to struggling to make the weight.

Their replacements will be 19-year-old Patrick Mendy from Reading and Dudley’s ex-Midlands Area champion Sam Horton.

The line-up is Daniel Cadman (Waltham Abbey, Essex), Paul David (Northampton), Peter Federenko (Sheffield), Sam Horton (Dudley), Eddie McIntosh (Birmingham), Patrick Mendy (Reading), Tony Quigley (Liverpool) and Tony Salam (Stoke Newington, London).

Tickets are on sale now and cost £35 (unreserved), £60 (ringside) and £100 (VIP) and are available from Matchroom Sport on 01277 359900.

Media Voting Open for Greatest Athlete of Dutch Heritage***Bas Rutten among greats on ballot***

Posted on | June 13, 2010 | No Comments

Grand Central Oyster Bar And Heineken Kick Off Balloting To Select Greatest Athlete Of Dutch Heritage During Holland Herring Festival At Iconic Seafood Restaurant

New York—Who’s the Greatest Athlete of Dutch Heritage? New York City’s historic Grand Central Oyster Bar has kicked off a media ballot to answer the question, as part of the Holland Herring Festival at the iconic seafood restaurant. Among the standout Dutch sportsmen on the ballot include former big league hurlers the “Dutch Master” Johnny “Double No Hit” Vander Meer, Burt Blyleven, Jim Kaat and Curt Schilling, NBA sharpshooters Rik Smits, Kiki Vandeweghe and Keith Van Horn, soccer great Johan Cruyff, U.S. Open Tennis champ Tom Okker, track and field wizards Fanny Blankers-Koe and Cornelius Warmerdam, football tight end Jay Riemersma, and mixed martial artist Bas Rutten.

Accredited media representatives can participate in the selection (only one vote per person) by emailing Jerry.Milani@yahoo.com, no later than Tuesday, June 15, 2010, at 5 p.m. ET. The Holland Herring Festival featuring “nieuw maatjes” herring air-expressed from the Netherlands runs through Friday, June 25. The voting was launched last night as part of the Heineken Salute to Dutch Sportsmen event.

Candidates are listed below. Voters are asked to select the overall champion, and may also pick one athlete from each sport. Write-in candidates will be accepted.

BASEBALL: David Aardsma; Bert Blyleven; Lenny Dykstra; Shea Hillenbrand; Jim Katt; Mark Mulder; Kirk Nieuwenhuis; Curt Schilling; John Vander Meer; Andy Van Slyke; Justin Verlander
FOOTBALL: Jay Riemersma
BASKETBALL: Rik Smits; Kiki Vandeweghe; Keith Van Horn; Jeff Van Gundy
SOCCER: Edgar Davids; Johan Cruyff; Ruud Gullit; Marco Van Basten; Johan Neeskens; Robin Van Persie; Dennis Bergkamp; Frank Rijkaard
Mixed Martial Arts: Bas Rutten
TRACK AND FIELD: Fanny Blankers-Koen; Cornelius Warmerdam
SWIMMING: Matt Grevers; Julia Smit
TENNIS: Tom Okker
BOXING: Jean Pierre Coopman; Ray Joval
SKATEBOARDING: Ryan Sheckler

CFX 10 June19th Schultz VS Rehm

Posted on | June 13, 2010 | No Comments

BRENNAN’S SMOKE SHOP SPECIAL THANKS

Posted on | June 13, 2010 | No Comments

Brennan’s Smoke Shop has 5 Massachusetts locations (Plymouth, Pembroke, Brockton, Wareham, Raynham) and is a proud sponsor of paintball and mixed martial arts in the region. We ran into their crew recently at a CageFX event in Plymouth, MA. Click on the photo below to visit their Web-Site. Thanks Brennan’s for keeping up your support for local athletes and for the shirt and cigar :)

THE EVOLUTION OF THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER AND REALITY TV

Posted on | June 12, 2010 | No Comments

By: Rich Bergeron

 

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A revolution is overtaking the TV airwaves these days, and it’s made a monster out of what started with a label of “Reality” attached to it. This once bold, new genre soon became nothing but staged drama and isolated incidents in a controlled environment filmed for posterity. The monster even produced a feature film phenomenon called “The Blair Witch Project” that banked on the idea that spreading rumors about the whole thing being true would help sell the whole production. Today, shows like “The Biggest Loser” generate great ratings and seem to feature as real as it gets struggles, but you really have to ask what is “real” about a game show based around a glorified fat camp? “Big Brother” made a game show out of people under 24 hour surveillance, and “Survivor” made being a dick and stabbing your friends in the back while stranded in a remote area a million dollar enterprise.

MTV’s Powerhouse “The Real World” was what catapulted the whole miserable Reality TV category into a new stratosphere, spawning show after show that just became a little less real and a lot more tacky (i.e. “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?”) The word reality didn’t seem to fit anymore, but the name stuck anyway as a sort of play on words. Fact and fiction would forever be blended on the best of these shows in such a way that you couldn’t tell or didn’t care as a viewer if anything you were seeing was staged. Like professional wrestling nuts who know it’s all fake, the Reality TV audience knows these days to take what they see with a grain of salt. It’s expected that the producers of these shows will fail miserably as much as they may try to “keep it real.” “Wife Swap” took the genre to new heights, spawning a monster of its own. “Balloon Boy” and his batty family were exposed as publicity hounds after just two tastes of television glory on the show.

With the main event fight tonight and the finale show next Saturday, the present-day culmination of the sport of MMA’s brush with reality TV will be on full display. Tonight’s headlining battle comes fresh off a UFC show that finally resulted in the past season’s coaches fighting it out in a true main event slugfest. The Ultimate Fighter television show, now sporting the TUF label and produced by its own production company, was a diamond in the rough Dana White has been repeatedly criticized for not believing in at first. Now the show is often built around Dana’s brash, in-your-face attitude and insightful commentary during the competitive television show’s cage fights. The microphones and cameras catch him making observations, sit in on his discussions with coaches and fighters, and the participants even come to understand that White’s unannounced visits to the fighter house are typically serious business. He comes across on the show like the Godfather of MMA, and the fighters give him the ultimate respect. In many ways he earned it by coming around to the reality show’s promise and putting the time in to find the best talent for the program. White has been forced to recognize that this seed that started with a small idea has now grown into a giant Redwood. Without it, the UFC would not be the same.

Over 11 seasons of The Ultimate Fighter so many athletes who have gone through the ringer in front of a healthy Spike TV audience have gone on to be the UFC’s most prominent stars. Participants know now that it’s not just one contract up for grabs. There are sometimes half a dozen or more participants who get picked up by the organization after a particularly successful season of fights. The show’s adapted in other ways as well. The antics in the house used to always include at least one scene where the fighters destroy a wall or some part of the fighter house. One fighter, Mikey Burnett, eventually sued the production company and Zuffa for injuries sustained on the show and other related issues. Jesse Taylor might have been going up against some formidable opponent on tonight’s finale, but he was thrown off the show and out of the whole company for his drunken antics on the program. Fights in the house and on the grounds of the fighter compound have made the show better in some ways and in other ways made the whole sport look bad. Still, there is no such thing as bad publicity, so the show thrived on some of these viral–albeit thoroughly immature–moments:

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Like the Real World, sometimes bad things happen when “people stop being polite…and start getting real.” Still, it’s not all about the staged or injected drama that makes The Ultimate Fighter work. The success of the UFC’s reality show is also a measure of how popular the sport of mixed martial arts is at the moment and how powerful the UFC’s position is at the top of the food chain. There are fights on virtually every single episode now. One fighter (Chris McCray) had five fights in the six-week filming period for the latest season of the show culminating tonight. Many of the participants this time around were banged up or injured and not allowed to continue fighting on the program. It is a rough and tumble sport, and you can’t stage the kinds of fights that happen as participants battle it out to be the most superior warrior in the graduating class of future UFC veterans.

Participants sign a complicated contract (and likely a few waivers due to the Burnett case) to get on the show and could be liable for $5 million in damages if they reveal any outcomes or secrets before an episode airs. Secrecy is important in order to keep people watching each episode to find out what happens next. Fighters can’t leave the house, and the environment is more like boot camp in that respect. Formation is fight training, and the troops do get to stand at ease a lot, but it’s still a rigid, forced environment. Call it genius or call it crazy, but one aspect of the show is more like a game show than a professional fight organization since it is not matchmakers putting fights together but coaches. These coaches want to create a mismatch for their team member if they can. Things don’t always work out as planned. Often when contestants are picked so carefully and now have to fight their way into the house, it’s hard to even find a mismatch. If there are any regulatory concerns with how these fights are matched up and how so many are executed within such a short time frame (six weeks of filming), the fact that the show is based in Nevada erases them. The UFC now employs the former executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission: Mark Ratner. The organization hired Ratner in March of 2006, which makes sense since so many UFC events take place in Nevada where the parent company (Zuffa, LLC) and the founding Fertitta Family are based.

Pablo Picasso once said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” The UFC brass did a little of both to get this far with the Ultimate Fighter. Fight News Unlimited once interviewed Chris Champagne, who claimed Dana and the UFC stole his baby and took his reality show idea without paying him for it. What they didn’t allegedly steal, they certainly copied. Whatever worked from boxing’s “The Contender” and other similar shows went right into the production of the TUF series. What started as a gimmick and once featured the prize of a Xyience sponsorship (see www.xyiencesucks.com for the story on why that’s no longer the case) now regularly replenishes the fighter pool for the growing and expanding UFC. It is a part of the company that is really integral and serves as a minor league of sorts to fine tune future talent and get each fighter into the right mold to be a company man.

As seasons go, the latest one was certainly worth watching. Fight News Unlimited had Rich Attonito, one of this year’s wounded warriors, on our weekly radio show this past week. Attonito came on after our first guests: Lyle Howry and Angela Magana. Howry is the creator of Ultimate Women Challenge, a reality TV show slated for NBC this fall and featuring Magana and 15 other female fighters slugging it out for glory in front of an estimated audience of 50 million. Magana remained on the call with Attonito to pick his brain about the reality experience since her filming has not yet begun. To listen to these interviews, CLICK HERE!

Attonito revealed on the show that he will be fighting the latest season’s most outspoken and ornery characters in Jamie Yager on the Finale show next Saturday. Sidelined through most of the show by a hand injury, Attonito is ready to prove himself worthy of staying in the UFC. Surprisingly, Attonito was one of just a few fighters on the show who didn’t have some kind of argument or face off with Yager during the filming. So, this is not about an old score to settle or any kind of simmering rivalry. It’s all about making the most of second chances for both fighters. For Yager he must come back to show he won’t quit if he gets taken deep again. For Attonito he’s out to show his hand is healed and his true talent was sorely missed in the competition for best-in-the-house. In other words…he coulda been a contender!

For Chuck Liddell, his fight tonight is for all the marbles. Those who are big fans of Liddell and those who know the inside story will tell you Chuck might not have a lot of marbles left after all his hard core partying and rock star lifestyle living. So many times Dana White’s publicly announced his reluctance to let Liddell fight again in the octagon. White since changed his tune, reporting that Chuck is serious and training harder than ever for this. If anyone can come back from the MMA dead it is Liddell, one of the sport’s pioneers. Franklin is a last-minute replacement fighting to prove he is still a contender himself and still a viable go-to guy for a big match. Both will be fighting for a chance to get back to the top of their weight class again in a sport they helped revolutionize.

Next week’s card will be about the true evolution of the sport of MMA, The Ultimate Fighter TV series, and reality TV itself. We will see a full array of talent cultivated by UFC brass and already thrown on the world stage in the training phase of things. These are fighters that will know in the future if they stick it out that they can’t just be athletes. They have to be role models and superstars, too. Through it all, we’ll be watching to see if they sink or swim and to see what happens when the cameras are all gone and the true reality sets in.

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GOFIGHTLIVE COMBAT SPORTS ACTION AVAILABLE ON INTERNET PPV THIS WEEK

Posted on | June 12, 2010 | No Comments

Asylum Fight League – XXIX
Sat Jun 12 21:00PM ET

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The Asylum Fight League returns this weekend for its 29th card, this time taking place in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The event is being held at the Trump Marina hotel and casino and brings together fighters from all over the country, as well as plenty of local talent from both New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Asylum has a long history of producing fighters who go on to fight in the bigger promotions, so you might well see some of the stars of tomorrow if you attend the event. There is also an after party at the Wave where you can meet the fighters and get autographs.

Of the PA fighters on the card, Al Amoroso, Akeim Leonard and Chris Booker are making their debuts, while Ron Kofroth looks to bounce back after losing his last outing at Asylum Fight League 28.

The fight card features a mixture of professional and amateur fights, and bouts are liable to change before the event.

Pandemonium I
Sat Jun 12 21:30PM ET

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Mez Sports presents Pandemonium I, a full night of boxing and MMA action, featuring Lance “Mount” Whitaker, Andre “The Russian Bear” Fedesov, UFC Vet Roman “Emperor” Mitichyan, and TUF Season 9 Alum Ritchie Wilson.

Glendale fighters Roman “The Emperor” Mitichyan and Artur “The Punisher” Bernetsyan are both scheduled to compete in respective contests on June 12 at MEZ Sports’ “Pandemonium” at the Hollywood Palladium.

The card will feature both mixed martial arts and boxing.

Bernetsyan (3-0, 2 KOs) will look to continue a promising start to a promising career when he faces Ramon Flores (3-6-1, 3 KOs) in a 135-pound bout. Flores was originally slated to fight Bernetsyan on May 6 at a King of the West card, but the former pulled out to due the death of his father. It will be Bernetsyan’s fourth fight of the year.

Mitichyan (10-3), a former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter, will fight for the first time since August of 2009, headlining the MMA portion of the event.

One of Mitichyan’s training partners at the Main Event Sports Club, Sevak Magakian, was originally scheduled to face Preston Scharf at the aforementioned May 6 event.

Now, Mitichyan will take on Scharf (11-8) in the event’s MMA main event.

Mitichyan, who teaches at the Glendale Fighting Club where Bernetsyan is trained, was scheduled to headline a similar MMA/boxing event promoted by MEZ Sports in April at the Shrine Auditorium, but the event fell through.

Also scheduled to compete on the card is Burbank welterweight boxer Johnny Suarez (5-3-2) and, in the main event, heavyweights Andrey Fedosov (21-1, 17 KOs) and Lance Whitaker (34-6-1, 28 KOs) are set to face off in a 10-round boxing match. Fedosov’s last two victories came in Glendale at the Glendale Civic Center.

Ringside MMA 6 – Rage
Wed Jun 16 20:00PM ET

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Michel Gagnon secured a tight guillotine choke after just 52 seconds into his fight to defeat Guillaume Lamarche and become the first Ringside MMA featherweight champion tonight at Ringside 6: Rage at the Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal, Quebec. Guillaume ‘Il Toro’ Delorenzi landed some big hammer-fists inside Ryan Machan’s guard but was unable to finish his opponent despite a dominant first round that ended with Delorenzi in full-mount. The second round was more contentious but a kick to the ribs by Delorenzi dropped Machan and ‘Il Toro’ was able to capitalize with some ground and pound to end the fight.

Derek ‘The Sex Machine’ Gauthier rebounded from a loss in his last fight to defeat Nova Scotian fighter Jason Rorison via TKO. Rorison landed some good punches that cut Gauthier but ‘The Sex Machine’ came back and dropped his opponent with a punch before grounding and pounding his way to a victory. Jason Rorison looked surprised at the speed of the stoppage and put up an argument after the fight.

In the opening bout, Dave Bedard quickly took Robin Helou down and used his ground and pound to score the TKO victory. Danny St-Gelais kept the trend going by defeating Samuel Laverriere via TKO in the second round after an even-paced first stanza.

Daylin Logan remained undefeated using his aggressive style to score a TKO victory over Sebastien Deroy after just under ninety seconds in the cage. Tristar gym prospect Alex Garcia also remained undefeated with a vicious knockout of Jaret MacIntosh in just 44 seconds. Montreal featherweight Tim Wadsworth continued his winning streak with a dominant performance over Winnipeg’s Dwight Sutherland to secure a first round rear-naked choke for the win.

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STRIKEFORCE HOLDING TWO FREE PRE-FIGHT PUBLIC EVENTS MONDAY AND TUESDAY

Posted on | June 12, 2010 | No Comments

LOS ANGELES MEDIA & PUBLIC WORKOUT

“BABALU” SOBRAL, TIM KENNEDY,

CONOR “HURRICANE” HEUN

TO PARTICIPATE IN STRIKEFORCE OPEN WORKOUT

Monday, June 14 at 1 p.m. PT
At Krav Maga Training Center
In West Los Angeles

WHO: Former STRIKEFORCE Light Heavyweight Champ Renato “Babalu” Sobral

American military hero and up-and-coming middleweight Tim Kennedy

Hollywood’s Conor “Hurricane” Heun

WHAT: The fighters will participate in an open workout just two days before the upcoming STRIKEFORCE Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) event at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 16, LIVE on SHOWTIME® at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast).

THE WORKOUT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND MEDIA ARE ENCOURAGED TO INVITE THEIR LISTENERS, VIEWERS & READERS.

Sobral (35-8), the former STRIKEFORCE Light Heavyweight (205 pounds) Champion who hails from Brazil and fights out of Orange County, will collide with exciting knockout artist Robbie Lawler (17-5) at a catch weight of 195 pounds in the main event. The fight will be Sobral’s first since losing his STRIKEFORCE belt to Gegard Mousasi on Dec. 19, 2009. Prior to the defeat, Sobral had reeled off five consecutive victories.

American military hero and San Luis Obispo native Kennedy (11-2) will face the former South African National Wrestling Champion Trevor Prangley (22-5-1) at middleweight (185 pounds) in one of the featured STRIKEFORCE fights at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE. Kennedy, a former United States Army Special Forces sniper with the 19th Special Forces outfit based in San Antonio, has toured the Middle East multiple times, and earned the Army’s Bronze Medal Star medal for valor under fire. Inside the cage, Kennedy has won three in a row and 11 of his last 12.

Heun (8-3), who fights out of Hollywood, will face former world champion KJ Noons (8-2) of San Diego, Calif., in an excellent lightweight (155 pounds) match.

Tickets are on sale at STAPLES Center box office, all Ticketmaster locations (800) 745-3000, Ticketmaster online (www.ticketmaster.com) and STRIKEFORCE’S official website (www.strikeforce.com). Tickets will also be sold at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE box office on days when events take place there.

WHEN: Monday, June 14 at 1 p.m. PT

WHERE: Krav Maga Worldwide Training Center, 11400 W. Olympic Blvd., West Los Angeles, Calif., 90064, Phone: (310) 477-9977

“BABALU” SOBRAL, ROBBIE LAWLER,

TIM KENNEDY, KJ NOONS, CYBORG SANTOS

& ALL THE FIGHTERS TO WEIGH IN

Tuesday, June 15 at 5 p.m. PT
at the Conga Room at LA LIVE in Downtown Los Angeles

WHO: Former STRIKEFORCE Light Heavyweight Champ Renato “Babalu” Sobral

Exciting Knockout artist “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler

American military hero and up-and-coming middleweight Tim Kennedy

Former World Champ KJ Noons

Hollywood’s Conor “Hurricane” Heun

DREAM belt-holder Marius “The Whitemare” Zaromskis

Welterweight Evangelista Cyborg

& More

WHAT: All 16 fighters participating in Wednesday’s STRIKEFORCE Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) event at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 16, will weigh in on Tuesday at an OPEN TO THE PUBLIC event at the Conga Room at L.A. LIVE in Downtown Los Angeles. The event will be televised LIVE on SHOWTIME® at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast).

Sobral (35-8), the former STRIKEFORCE Light Heavyweight (205 pounds) Champion who hails from Brazil and fights out of Orange County, will collide with exciting knockout artist Robbie Lawler (17-5) at a catch weight of 195 pounds in the main event.

American military hero and San Luis Obispo native Kennedy (11-2) will face former South African National Wrestling Champion Trevor Prangley (22-5-1) at middleweight (185 pounds). Kennedy, a former United States Army Special Forces sniper with the 19th Special Forces outfit based in San Antonio, has toured the Middle East multiple times, and earned the Army’s Bronze Medal Star medal for valor under fire. Inside the cage, Kennedy has won three in a row and 11 of his last 12.

Heun (8-3), who fights out of Hollywood, will face former world champion KJ Noons (8-2) of San Diego, Calif., in an excellent lightweight (155 pounds) match.

DREAM belt-holder Marius “The Whitemare” Zaromskis (13-4) will face Evangelista Cyborg (17-13) in a welterweight (170 pounds) contest

Tickets are on sale at STAPLES Center box office, all Ticketmaster locations (800) 745-3000, Ticketmaster online (www.ticketmaster.com) and STRIKEFORCE’S official website (www.strikeforce.com).

WHEN: Tuesday, June 15 at 5 p.m. PT

WHERE: The Conga Room,

800 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90015-1360 – (213) 745-0162

Ali Adams, Stops Lewis In Three – Then Gets Title Shot Disappointment

Posted on | June 12, 2010 | No Comments

Last Saturday night Hammersmith’s Heavyweight contender Ali Adams (9-2-1) moved one step forward to the title shot he’s been longing for. His championship credentials were verified following a top class performance that proved to be too much for his opponent Mark Lewis, who decided to quit at the end of the third round.

Adams dominated the fight from the start, making the centre of the ring his own by firing vicious jabs into the face of Nottinghamshire’s Lewis every time he tried to come forward. The times Lewis did manage to get past the jabs he was greeted by some slick combinations and wickedly hard rights.

Adams, who’s current unbeaten run is now ten in a row, stepped things up in the second, letting rip with vicious rights that rocked Lewis to the core. By the end of the third the battered Lewis, who was bleeding from both the nose and mouth, looked ready to give up, and give up he did by deciding not to come out for the fourth.

Adams spoke of the recent victory, on his return to training at the Ultrachem TKO gym in Canning Town, London, on Thursday. “Yeah it was great. I trained really, really hard for the last three months as I was looking for a title shot. This was a warm up fight for me and this was my first six round. He’s never been stopped before, but I stopped him in the third round. It was an amazing performance and I was really pleased. Everyone around me was really pleased with the performance.”

However his hopes for Southern Area title shot, against Larry Olumbamiwo on the 25th June, were well and truly dashed when Frank Maloney announced this week that Olumbamiwo will instead face Dave Ferguson in a British Heavyweight Title Eliminator on that date.

Adams spoke of the disappointment that his much hoped for title fight with good friend Olumbamiwo was not going to happen, “I was supposed to fight the Southern Area title with Larry on the 25th, but Frank Maloney came up to John (Johnny Eames) and said no it will not happen as Larry will fight Dave Ferguson.

I’m bitterly disappointed because Saturday’s fight was a warm up for me, to get ready for the title fight. I was really looking forward to that. It’s disappointing, you know. Now I’m still looking for a title shot.”

With performances, like the one last Saturday, under his belt Adams has clearly earned a title shot. Hopefully that chance will come his way in the near future.

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