(MAY 22) Alicia Ashley was
awarded a TKO win over a game, but outgunned, Nohimme Dennisson
at the top of Uprising Promotion's seven bout boxing card,
Wednesday night, before the customary sell out throng of local
fight fans at the Five Star Banquet Hall in Long Island City,
N.Y.
Ashley, who came to the bout at 122 pounds, was comfortably
ahead when the bout was halted at 1:04 of the final round of the
scheduled six rounder. Dennisson 123, from the opening bell,
chose to stay at long range with the southpaw Ashley while
trying to implement an almost impossible game plan: out box one
of the best boxers in the sport. There are valid reasons why the
encomium "Slick" has been universally bestowed on Ashley.
That's not to imply that the Albuquerque fighter did not have
some moments in the first four rounds of the bout, occasionally
getting Ashley's attention with effective counter punching,
particularly in rounds two and four. But Ashley was simply too
quick with both her hands and her feet and that dual speed
allowed the Brooklyn boxer to answer each of Dennisson's
"moments" with effective offensive surges of her own.
Ashley, well ahead, came out for the sixth round with a vigorous
attack in mid-ring, snapping Dennisson's head back several times
with right leads and big left hands, almost as if Ashley felt
she was trailing on the scorecards. Dennisson was backpedaling
around the ring as Ashley landed some of her most effective
punches of the bout, and after watching this one sided action
for almost the full opening sixty seconds, referee Danny
Schiavone called a halt, with slightly less than a minute
remaining. Neither Dennisson, nor her corner, headed up by Holly
Holm, raised significant protest. Ashley raised her record to
21-9-1 with her third career stoppage, while Dennisson dropped
to 5-4-2.
The night began with a four round flyweight bout between Paola
Ortiz and Kimberly Tomes. Tomes, who had not fought in the
professional ring in almost four years, was a featured boxer in
Jill Morley's award winning documentary, "Fight Like a Girl."
Tomes, 111 and Ortiz, 108, engaged in a "feeling out" first
round during which Ortiz continually pawed, with her gloves, at
an area just above her belt line. Forty seconds into the second
stanza, Ortiz, retreating to near her corner, turned her back to
Tomes and stopped fighting. Referee Schiavone immediately
signaled the end of the bout and declared Tomes a winner by what
goes into the record as a TKO. A member of Ortiz's corner later
stated his boxer stopped fighting due to what can only
delicately be described as a gastric disorder. Likewise, there
was some confusion over Tomes' record. Boxrec lists a win for
the Brooklyn fighter in what the source records as her last bout
(in Michigan in May, 2010 against Tracy Shanks, making her pro
debut) while Wednesday night's "bout sheet" and ring
introduction put Tomes' record at 0-5. Whatever the case,
Kimberly Tomes was the winner of this match up and the two
minute and forty second bout was the unopposed winner of the
"unconventional fight of the night" award.
Bernie McCoy
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