PITTSBURGH – (MAY 13) – Well, let me see how Post Gazette writer Chuck Finder chose to state what happen on last Friday's card, during the fight between Leslee ‘Long Play’ Perella and Ella ‘Bam Bam’ Nuñez.

As Mr. Finder briefly put it, “Leslee Perella of Brookline ran headfirst into buzz saw Bam Bam Nunez of New York, who bloodied the veteran female fighter’s nose badly in the first round and kept pounding for a unanimous decision”.

Essentially, Mr. Finder is correct in what he said; but, rather than a ‘buzz saw’, it was more like a ‘hurricane’ that Perella ran into, when Ella ‘Bam Bam’ Nuñez broke Perella’s nose early in round one and was relentless in her pursuit of Perella, earning her a 4-round unanimous decision victory over the hometown crowd pleaser. To Perella’s credit, she took heart and courageously went the distance, as she valiantly tried to come up with a counter to the onslaught that she sustained at the hands of Nuñez, a replacement opponent for Ebony Clement-Bay, who Perella was originally to fight on this card, but could not, since Clement-Bay was knocked out in her most recent match, less than 30 days ago.

In elation with her victory, Nuñez dropped to the canvas and did some speed push-ups for the crowd.

With the loss, Perella’s record goes to 4-2-1, while Nuñez advances to 2-2-0.

After the fight, I had the pleasure in meeting the very personable Ella Nuñez, who kindly advised me to speak to her trainer, Armando, due to her limited command of the English language; but, prior to speaking with him, Nuñez graciously posed for a few pictures.

As her coach, Armando, says, he gave Nuñez the moniker of ‘Bam Bam’ because of how hard and how fast her punches are, when they land, as this writer can surely attest.

It also turns out that Nuñez really is a ‘veteran female fighter’ in her own right, having been in training in the ‘sweet science’ since she was ten years old, but not having much of an amateur background. Her record of 2-2 is deceiving, being that she has been victimized by a couple ‘hometown’ decisions, which are all too common these days. With that said, Nuñez knows in her heart she is really undefeated in four fights, and is being ducked or avoided by other fighters and their trainers. When asked if he feels that Nuñez is ready to fight some Florida fighters like Stacy Reille, Armando said, “They don’t want to fight her. When they saw how soundly Ella beat her last opponent, they said they weren’t interested”.

Now that she is a 39-year old single mother of four children, with her oldest being only 14, Nuñez definitely keeps busy outside of the ring as well inside of the ring.

Congratulations to Ella ‘Bam Bam’ Nuñez on her ‘4th’ victory and to Leslee ‘Long Play’ Perella, for having taken the chance on fighting Nuñez, in lieu of ducking her, as well as having the heart to go the distance with Nuñez, when she could have easily chosen to stay on her stool after round one.