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(APR 18) On April 17, 2008 the first
night of 81st Annual Daily News Golden Gloves Finals opened at
Madison Square Garden's WAMU Theatre. An evening of action and fine
boxing, the fans shouted a mix of cheers and jeers as close bouts
brought controversy between hyped spectators and the judges.
From the onset, in an even bout at best between Camille Currie and
Lisa Tracy (Women's 132-pound), though Camille defended and scored
well with left jabs against a bit wild and aggressive barrage of
Lisa's left hooks, it seemed to many that overall, Lisa still got
the better of this bout. The judges gave this one to Camille.
Once again, Kaiser McLeod-Wells defeated Alexis Asher (women's
114-pound), in a non-stop punching fight with Alexis throwing most
of the punches and seemingly scoring, leaving spectators with
open-mouth question-mark looks on their faces.
Then, the theme continued. One of the nights best matches, a classic
of speed and reach vs. grit and power, Christina Cruz defeated
Christina Rosa (women 119-pound). Hands often down, Cruz still
snapped some fine left-right combinations to Rosa's head. But
overall, Rosa cut off the ring enough to get in close and score to
Cruz's body and head, "seemingly" to get the better of this intense
match.
All said and done, the evening remained exciting. Other close bouts
could have gone either way, so comment will be reserved. Honorable
mention goes to Ring 8 for the intermission presentation of the Bill
Gallo Scholarship Award to Nicole Russell, Marcos Hernandez and
Anthony Karperis.
Other Results:
Christina Jensen with a
controversial win over Jennifer Egan (165)
Timothy Ramirez over Jordan Rodriquez (106)
Marcus Browne with TKO overwhelming speed over Shaka Davidson (165)
(Keep your eye on this one)
Steven Martinez over Travis Peterkin (152)
Joseph Smith over Sean Monaghan (178)
Nisa Rodrigez with hard straight lefts beat Justine Herrera (154)
Shemuel Pagan over Vassiliy Zherebnenko (132)
Frankie Garriga over Christian Arreaga (119)
Raul Lopez over Jose Rivera (112)
William Whitt beat Paul Diaz-Larui (141)
Emmanuel Gonzalez with a KO win against Marcos Hernandez (125)
Daniel Torres over Davone Jones (Super-heavyweight)
Mitchell Balker over Norman Neely (201)
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