Disappointment filled the ring at the conclusion of the Teresa Perozzi and Tori Nelson - All or Nothing WBC Middleweight Title fight at the Fairmont Southampton.
The pair battled toe-to-toe, landing punch after punch but in the end Perozzi kept her WBA Middleweight Belt and the WBC Middleweight Belt that was once held by Nelson remained vacant after the three judge’s decisions were announced.
Vic Richmond saw the fight 97 – 93 to Perozzi, while the two other judges Lynn Carter and Claude Paquette scored the fight 95-95 each resulting in a Split Decision Draw.
A very disappointed Perozzi said: “I’m disappointed, I didn’t train 10 weeks for this, she is a slugger and I don’t like to get caught up in slugging, I thought I did enough to win.”
The night began with Danzil Smith face off against Jared Jimenez in an Exhibition match, which was followed by Steven Wright defeating Deondre Burgess in the first Amateur Boxing fight of the night. Bermuda’s Shannon Ford then defeated Canada’s Mike Gale, before another Exhibition fight took to the ring as Nikki Bascome and Justin Garant put on a show for the large crowd, both fighters displayed punching power and the ability to avoid getting hit by the big blows.
At the same time his football team the North Village Rams was going down 1 – 0 to Flanagan’s Onion’s Corey Boyce was taking care of business in the ring defeating Khalid Pitcher in the first K-1 Kick boxing event of the evening.
Jeron Gunness from Bermuda defeated his Canadian opponent Edward Pierce, before the towel was thrown in to put a halt to the Samir Furqan and Anton Patockie, Canadian Patockie landed to tough blows to Bermuda’s Furqan with the towel being thrown in from the Bermuda corner.
The AMTAC Intercontinental Middleweight Championship Belt was up for grabs between Bermuda’s Sentwali Woolridge and Canadian Daniel Kechecgo, both fighters hit the mat several times in the five round fight that saw Kechecgo declared the winner.
Bolivian stunner Jennifer Salinas defeated American Karen Dulin 60 - 54 on all three of the judge’s scorecards.
