The last week of February has been very busy indeed. We just saw k9 boundrage lose to ishe smith and with it his IBF junior middleweight belt. Ishe smith as usual could not control his emotions and let them pour out right there in the ring drawing mixed reactions from all viewers including l.l.cool j. We saw two undefeated heavyweights Malik Scott and gravkov fight to a draw to remain undefeated in yet another heavyweight scoring controversy. On FNF ibf junior welterweight champion Lamont peterson made a triumphant return to the ring by stopping former champion Kendall holt in the 9th round in the nations capital. On the same night across the pond in Annapolis, Michael Amakor was on hand to witness the naval academy’s 72nd annual brigade boxing championship, so check out his report “Boxing from Annapolis” in the slide show, and to you professional boxers out there know that your art form is mandatory for navy midshipmen as part of their physical training program which basically says all there can be said about boxing, so, Keep Boxing!
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.
