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It was a night of knockouts in Springfield, VA as RGA Promotions and Jeter Promotions treated fans to the “Bulldog Brawl,” which featured eight bouts.
Opening up the night was DiBella Entertainments newest addition, Tevin Farmer, who simply ran over the overmatched Dominic Coca in the first round.
Farmer was looking for some work, but wasn’t met with much resistance from his opponent. Coca was tagged with a number of hooks early on and that was all she wrote.
Farmer improved to 17-4-1, 4 KOs, while Coca dropped to 8-10, 2 KOs.
The second bout of evening featured a Heavyweight mismatch with Stan Williamson taking on Jawon Love.
The undefeated Williamson stalked Love around the ring for the entire first round, pawing with a jab.
Somehow, Love made it out of the first round, but was caught with a barrage of punches early in Round 2. Williamson, who owned nearly a foot height advantage, easily dispensed of Love once he was able to catch up with him.
Williamson went to 3-0, 3 KOs with the victory, while Love lost his pro debut.
The third bout of the evening featured the knockout of the night as Mario Flores took on Christian Pittman. Pittman, who was making his pro debut, survived for the first minute of the fight all while backing up and maintaining distance.
Flores, who was encouraged by a large section of supporters in the crowd, was able to close the distance and knock his opponent down in the first. After rising to his feet, Pittman was caught with a mean body shot which visibly had him short of breath.
He somehow made it to his feet only to be met with a devastating shot to the head which nearly knocked him out of the ring. The fight was immediately called off as Love’s head dangled off the ring.
Flores lived up to his nickname, “Bazooka,” and improved to 5-1-2, 4 KOs while Pittman dropped his first career bout.
Next up was Jonathon Cepeda vs. Lester Gonzalez.
It took Cepeda five rounds, but he grinded out the victory over a game and battle tested Gonzalez.
Both men got off to a decent start in Round 1, but Cepeda quickly took control as he started focusing on the body exclusively.
In Round 4, after landing a number of clean punches to the body, Gonzalez finally hit the canvas.
Gonzalez has faced name opponents such as Brandon Gonzales and Marco Antonio Periban, so Cepeda’s early systematic breakdown was impressive to say the least.
Cepeda kept working the body, only to switch things up in Round 5 and crack Gonzalez with a left hook upstairs which wobbled him severely and forced his corner to throw in the towel.
Cepeda improved to 15-1, 13 KOs, while Gonzalez dropped to 12-15-4, 6 KOs.
Edwin Reyes vs. Tyron Stewart were in action in the fifth bout of the evening.
Reyes stalked the shaky Stewart throughout the first round, but wasn’t able to land anything of significance as Stewart proved a bit too elusive.
In Round 2, Reyes was able to find Stewart on the ropes and landed a combo upstairs, setup by some earlier body work.
Stewart couldn’t beat the count and dropped his first professional bout, while Reyes improves to 5-0, 4 KOs.
In the sixth bout, Mike Sawyer took on Nathon Chambers in a bout that was scheduled for four rounds.
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Chambers came out firing as soon as the bell rang, catching Sawyer with a number of flush shots. To his credit though, Sawyer battled back immediately and deposited the young Chambers on the canvas.
After one more knockdown, Chambers had enough and Sawyer walked away with a first-round knockout. With the victory, Sawyer moved to 6-3, 4 KOs and Chambers dropped to 0-2, 0 KOs.
In the co-main event, crowd favorite Gerome Quigley took on Cedric Coney in a bout that was scheduled for four rounds.
Not letting the crowd over excite him, Quigley patiently walked Coney down before putting together some good power combinations which made Coney decide that he no longer wanted to continue.
Quigley improved to 5-0 with 4 KOs while Coney lost his pro debut.
In the main event of the evening, Yurii Polishuk faced off against Benjaming Olinga in a rematch for the USA Virginia State Light Welterweight title.
In the opening two stanzas, Polishuk worked behind a good jab and used a lot of movement. Olinga had his best moments on the inside where he was able to connect on looping hooks.
The crowd cheered on each man every time an offensive barrage was unloaded, which early on was quite often.
In Round 3, Olinga tried to continue to impose his physical style and land with hooks and uppercuts, but Polishuk was not getting caught cleanly with many punches.
Polishuk did a good job of turning Olinga, negating many of the inside counters he tried to throw.
Going into Round 4, Olinga knew he had to do something to change the pace of the fight. Right on cue, Olinga came out throwing two and three punch combinations all while pushing Polishuk back.
Although he picked up the pace and excited his fan base with higher output, many of the shots Olinga threw were in fact blocked.
Mid-way through the round—at the urging of his corner—Polishuk began sticking and moving once again. The best punch of the round was undoubtedly a flush left uppercut landed by Polishuk which seemed to momentarily daze Olinga.
As Round 5 began, perhaps fearing their man might be losing, Polishuk’s corner was heard yelling at their man to step it up.
Polishuk worked well behind the jab, which generally made things easy for him the entire fight.
Though he was being told to box, Polishuk showed off a good inside attack as well against a tough inside fighter in Olinga.
Going into the sixth and final round, both men met in the middle of the ring looking to carefully place their combinations.
Half way through the round, Polishuk picked up his offense and aggression and landed some well-placed combinations which definitely were felt by Olinga.
While Olinga gave it his all, Polishuk was too active and too accurate with hard body shots.
In the end, Polishuk won the favor of the judges by scores of 59-55 twice and 60-54. Polishuk improved to 6-1-1, 2 KOs and Olinga dropped to 1-8, 0 KOs.
