Photos: Pepe Rodriguez
WBC #4 super featherweight Dante “Crazy” Jardon (24-3, 20 KOs) scored an eighth round KO over former world champion Gamaliel “Platano” Diaz (37-11-1, 17 KOs) on Saturday night at the Auditorio Plaza Condesa in Mexico City. Jardon dropped Diaz in round four and twice in round eight before the bout was halted. Time was :52. Jardon retained the WBC Continental belt. Jardon is now in line to face the winner of next week’s WBC title clash between Takashi Miura and Sergio ‘Yeyo’ Thompson in Cancun.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
