The WBO light Middleweight title match between champion Hannah Gabriels and Dakota Stone will headline a Saturday, January 7 fight card to be streamed live on The Boxing Channel. The action can be seen by logging on to Boxing ChannelThe webcast begins at 8PM EST / 7PM CT/ 5PM PST.
The undefeated Gabriels, considered one of the most talented women fighters today, will be making the fourth defense of her title. She has scored 8 KOs in her 12 wins. The veteran Stone comes in off a career best win over Christy Martin.
Hall of Fame broadcaster Al Bernstein will be ringside in Costa Rica to call the action of a three fight webcast. He expects an action fight in the main event. “Hannah makes for all action fights, and she has plenty of power,” he said, “and Dakota has a history of engaging her opponents and creating good fights. It’s the classic struggle of a young champion going against an experienced veteran,” he added.
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.
