Three title boxing card…
Dalton crowned Caribbean champion with TKO
By Isaiah Chappelle
Guyana Chronicle
February 23, 2004
CARIBBEAN Champ: President of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control KD Persaud decorates Deadly Denny Dalton with the Caribbean Boxing Federation Supper Middleweight belt. (Quacy Sampson photos).
CARIBBEAN Champ: President of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control KD Persaud decorates ‘Deadly’ Denny Dalton with the Caribbean Boxing Federation Supper Middleweight belt. (Quacy Sampson photos).
A DEADLY uppercut began ‘Deadly’ Denny Dalton’s claim to the Caribbean Boxing Federation Junior Middleweight belt, in the wee hours of yesterday morning, to climax the exciting Mash Bash, staged by Holland Entertainment Promotions at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.
Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore had to go all 12 rounds to uplift the National Bantamweight belt against a tough Mark ‘Pit Bull’ Dummett, and the shorter Pamela ‘Grenade’ London exploded with overhand rights to humble the towering Shondell ‘Dynamite’ Parks to now wear the National Heavyweight belt.
Dalton finished USA-based Edward ‘The Don’ Meertens 2:47 minutes in round seven. Dalton drifted Meertens to the ropes with a right uppercut, pinning him there with left-right combinations, forcing referee Eion Jardine to step in and stop the onslaught, earning Dalton a technical knockout (TKO).
Both boxers sized each other up in the opening round, but Dalton began his deadly attacks from the second round. He sent a straight right to head then attacked Meertens’ head and body, forcing Meertens to clinch after receiving a solid right hook to head. He finished the round with combinations to head and body.
But Meertens fought off Dalton in round three with body shots in close quarters then tagged him with an overhand right, to win that round. From there, Meertens went on the offensive at the start of each round, but Dalton retaliated with body and head shots, stitching in uppercuts in the salvos. Meertens had to clinch in the fourth to survive. Meertens tried fighting back but from round five it was only a matter of time for Dalton to finish the bout.
REFEREE Eion Jardine holds aloft the champions right hand and manager/promoter Carwyn Holland his left. Dalton disposed of USA-based Edward The Don Meertens with a seventh round TKO in the title fight at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, Saturday night. (Quacy Sampson photos).
REFEREE Eion Jardine holds aloft the champion’s right hand and manager/promoter Carwyn Holland his left. Dalton disposed of USA-based Edward ‘The Don’ Meertens with a seventh round TKO in the title fight at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, Saturday night. (Quacy Sampson photos).
‘Hurry Up’ Moore was clinical in his punches but ‘The Pit Bull’ Dummett absorbed his best, carrying the fight to the distance and probably with a little more preparation could have claimed the belt.
Fighting orthodox, Dummett began attacking first with a right to head, but southpaw Moore replied with a straight left to head followed by right hooks, a combination that Dummett had to endure repeatedly, but he still held his ground. Dummett forced Moore to backpedal in the second round, attacking with overhand rights. However, Moore was quickly able to anticipate the attacks and punished Dummett in round three, but was unable to finish him as Dummett withstood Moore’s vicious shots to head and body.
Moore, who rarely went past round four, conceded the fourth as Dummett attacked early, although Moore landed some clean headshots and uppercuts. Dummett continued attacking early in round five but missed as he lunged to get Moore, who regained control with some telling headshots and got some much needed wind as his corner took a pretty long time to fix his bootlaces.
Toe-to-toe exchanges ensued in the sixth round as Moore pounded Dummett with body and headshots, but Dummett still held on. Perhaps sensing that Dummett meant to go the distance, Moore began fighting from outside, utilising his superior boxing skill, hitting and dancing away from his opponent. He still tried to finish the fight within the distance but Dummett held on tenaciously.
In the end, judges Trevor Arno and Carlton Hopkinson awarded one round to Dummett, respectively scoring 119-110 and 119-108. Judge Andrew Thorne gave Dummett five rounds, scoring 115-113.
‘Grenade’ London who tipped the scales at 198lb, very early that she would not be intimidated by the 303lb ‘Dynamite’ Parks, pounding her head with solid overhand rights. Parks held London’s head as she landed her shots and referee Michael Benjamin had to deduct a point in rounds five and eight. Benjamin literally had his hands full, as punches flew over his head even before the gong sounded.
Eventually, Arno awarded the fight to London, 79-72, Thorne 78-73 and Bernard Dos Santos 80-70.
The card started ridiculously late at 22:05 hrs, over two hours beyond the official time, with an exhibition bout between Gwendolyn O’Neil and Dirk Alexander, in a historic male-female catchweight encounter.
Andrew Murray Jr to whose father’s memory the card was dedicated, got a controversial loss to Clevon Parks of Linden, clearly a hometown decision in a 69lb scrap. But young Murray displayed poor sportsmanship, refusing to shake Parks hand and discarding his medal as he left the ring in tears.
It was way past the bedtime of most children when peewee Dexter Wray and Kevin Allicock took the ring for a 45lb encounter at 22:35 hrs. Wray wowed the crowd with some matured attacks to win the fight.
To crown the unbelievable, the promoter put on the third amateur encounter at half past midnight, before the main bout. Lennox Alleyne easily won the bout against Anton Greene in the first of a three-fight series to decide who will go the Pre-Olympic Box-off in Brazil.
The highly touted return clash between Linden ‘Boney’ John and Shawn ‘Fathead’ Quallis fizzled as ‘Fathead’ failed to turn up for the ring date.