(APR 17) On Saturday, April
13, 2013 on the Bike & Bash show in Sacramento, California the
Heavyweight women's bout between #1 ranked Sonya Lamonakis [Boxrec]
and former two-time Heavyweight Champion Martha Salazar who was
coming retirement after six years was a phenomenal bout.
After the bout, Lamonakis
immediately walked over to the media and the commission table
and says I want to appeal this bout as a "no contest" because
the rounds were three-minutes instead of two- minutes. She
turned to me and said, “love you guys and Martha won but rules
are rules.”
It wasn’t just getting soundly beat by Salazar that
upset Lamonakis, she had a list of complaints to why she would
lose the fight.
Lamonakis said in a recent article put out by
the Chicago Boxing News, “ There was two inspectors for the
whole show, never watched us wrap, or her, never checked my
wraps, or hers, we had what I believe were amateur Adidas gloves
that were horrible, then three minute rounds that was never
discussed. So you tell me, would you want it overturned also?
You’re damn right I DO..and it will be…it was illegal…three
minutes rounds have to be discussed and negotiated for more
money.”- said the clearly upset Lamonakis.
Salazar said, “It was a six round fight and if you are number
one you should be able to handle 2 or 3 minutes regardless of an
error. She is just looking for a way out from this loss but it’s
too late. Sonya was over confident. She had her chance to show
the world she was the best and she lost.”
Salazar proved to the world who really is number 1 with the
boxing clinic she put on Saturday night. Sonya knows Martha and
beat her. Martha Salazar not only schooled “The Scholar”
Saturday night she left her bruised and battered. It’s difficult
for Lamonakis to come to terms with her first professional loss
and that she is not the best heavyweight female boxer in the
world.
In a recent interview Sonya said she expected Salazar to
have ring rust because she was the inactive fighter. Sonya was
also stating that she had much more amateur experience than
Salazar. If Lamonakis was banking on a washed up Salazar to show
up Saturday night, she had a huge awakening.
After the bout Lamonakis in her own words says, “I was much
faster but, when I would get inside, I was allowing her to throw
across the middle, and that was her fight,” she said. “She was a
better fighter than me, but this was a good learning experience
and she didn’t knock me down. She’s a great boxer. This was the
biggest test of my career. I’m probably going to take another
fight, but I’d like to rematch her in New York.”
Lamonakis fought 18 minutes, Saturday night but she said she is
not ready for 10 rounds yet. Well Sonya you already fought 18
minutes what is 2 minutes more?
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