Ringside by Pattee Mak |February 15, 2013
Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing held a live professional boxing show tonight at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun. A portion of the bouts was shown live on ESPN2. The main event consisted of middleweights, Delvin Rodriguez vs. George Tahdooahnippah.
Prior to the start of the bout, Tahdooahnippah had an exciting entrance to the ring with a Native American Tribal Warfare Dance, drums and rappers. Unfortunately this did not help him during his fight against Rodriguez.
During the majority of the fight, Rodriguez denominated it with the referee warning Rodriguez twice for hitting too low. But that didn’t stop him from unleashing his combinations on Tahdooahnippah. Round 2 everyone in the area was on their fight. Rodriguez landed a couple of great right hands that rocked Tahdooahnippah.
After round 2 there was some confusion coming from the corner of Tahdooahnippah and at one point it appeared that the attending physician stopped the bout but the bell started and round 3 continued on.
Round 3 was pretty much the same as round 2 but Tahdooahnippah was showing blood on his face.
Round 4 started off at a slower pace but in the beginning Tahdooahnippah appeared to be slowly coming back but in the end of the round it was all Rodriguez.
Round 5 and 6 Tahdooahnippah isn’t really defending himself. Finally referee, Eddie Cotton called a halt to the bout 2 minutes, 41 seconds into the round and therefore, Rodriguez takes the wins by TKO. The entire fight was truly one side. Tahdooahnippah’s face wasn’t looking so pretty in the end.
Rodriguez increased his record to 27-6-3 and Tahdooahnippah decreased his record to 31-1-1.
Other bouts of the evening:
Marlon Farr vs. Tylon Burris. Winner Burris by UD. All 3 judges scored it 60-54.
Enver Halili vs. Antonio Marrera. Winner Halhi by UD. All 3 judges scored the bout 40-36.
Chris “The Hurricane” Howard vs. Bayan “The Mongolian Mongoose” Jargal. Winner Howard by KO, 3rd round 1 minute 46 seconds.
Aleksandra Magdziak Lopes vs Adelita Irizarry. Winner Lopez by UD. Judges scored it 79-73, 78-74 and 78-74.
Pedro Andres vs. Bryant Cruz. Winner Cruz in the 4th round, referee Danny Schiavone called a halt to the bout, 2 minutes, 6 seconds.
DJ Hughley vs. “Thunder” Contantin Bejearu. Winner Bejenaru by UD. All three judges scored the bout 30-26. Referee Eddie Cotton stopped the bout at the advise of the ringside physician Dr. Michael Schwartz at the end of round 3.
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.
