Outcomes from Dearborn, Michigan

Report and images by Bob Ryder

Earlier than a loud and boisterous crowd that stuffed the within of the Hype Athletics Heart within the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights, the 2 hometown predominant occasion favorites prevailed in what was by far their hardest fights of their younger careers. Within the six spherical predominant occasion Husam Al Mashhadi had all he may deal with within the individual of Houston’s Gabriel Smith.

Welterweight Al Mashhadi had blown by means of his first 5 opponents in ridiculously simple vogue, scoring knockouts or stoppages all within the first spherical. The sound of the opening bell had barely light earlier than it grew to become clear that Smith was not going to be simple sufferer quantity six. The primary two rounds had been fought in tactical vogue with Al Mashhadi showing to win each. Within the third stanza the complexion of the competition started to shift. Smith grew to become extra aggressive, throwing mixtures and boxing nicely, bloodying Al Mashhadi’s nostril within the course of. Smith continued his success within the fourth spherical as nicely. The tempo slowed within the fifth spherical and heading into the ultimate three minutes it appeared that an upset may very well be within the making. Al Mashhadi responded sturdy within the sixth spherical, outworking and taking the play away from Smith to the delight of the gang. The ultimate scores for probably the most half demonstrated the closeness of the bout as Al Mashhadi upped his document to (6-0, 5 KOs) by scores of 58-56 x 2 and a means too huge 60-54. Smith falls to (11-7-1, 4 KOs). Credit score to Al Mashhadi’s group for placing Husam in a a lot wanted step up take a look at which he handed with flying colours.

Promoter/matchmaker Michael Awada together with matchmaker Lina Kurylyuk did nicely with the opposite six spherical match up as nicely. Tremendous welterweight Gheith Karim confronted his finest opponent so far in Mexico’s Ramses Agaton of their semi predominant occasion. Agaton was reduce close to the suitable eye within the first spherical that he felt had been brought on by a butt though referee Steve Daher deemed it to be from a punch. Agaton additionally engaged in a heated dialog within the second spherical with ref Daher over what he perceived was Karim’s continued use of his head. Fortunately issues calmed and the bout continued and a very good motion battle it was. A number of occasions Agaton was capable of do good work alongside the ropes, touchdown some good photographs on Karim. Karim bounced again with good mixtures himself and Agaton’s reduce had Karim’s trunks and white gloves splattered with blood. There was a superb change within the last seconds of the ultimate spherical as each fighters felt the necessity to make a press release for the judges. Karim took a majority resolution because the judges card learn 60-54, 59-55, and 57-57. Karim improves to (9-0, 3 KOs) whereas Agaton declines to (22-14-3, 12 KOs) within the battle of the evening.

The remainder of the present was comprised of scheduled 4 spherical bouts. Dearborn’s Hassain Bilal stayed undefeated (4-0, 4 KOs) by TKO 2 at :41 of the spherical over Jordy Tientcheu who was making his professional debut. Tientcheu hails from Detroit by means of Cameroon. Bilal had scored first spherical wins in his first three fights the latest being eight days in the past in Detroit. He practically made it 4 in a row when he floored Tientcheu closely proper earlier than the bell to finish the primary spherical. Tientcheu bravely got here out for the second however was quickly overwhelmed as Bilal teed off at will with laborious punches necessitating referee Frank Garza to wave off this middleweight match up.

Cruiserweight Mohammed Awada from Dearborn bounced Grand Rapids’ Brandon Bates off the canvas 5 occasions to up his document to (2-0, 2 KOs). Bates was making his professional debut and introduced a herky jerky awkward type with him that Awada had little issue overcoming, scoring two knockdowns within the first and one other three within the second spherical requiring referee Daher to manage the obligatory stoppage at 1:13 of the stanza. Detroit tremendous light-weight Walid Muhsein evened his document at (1-1, 1 KO) with a knockout at 1:31 of the primary over professional debuting Darius Frazier of Kalamazoo. Frazier had been down as soon as already when he took a knee a second time to be counted out by referee Garza. In a battle of tremendous welters Marcus Wilson and Antoine Blassingame engaged in an entertaining scrap. Wilson rode a knockdown within the second over Blassingame to a factors victory (40-35 x 2, 39-36) and goes to (2-0, 1 KO) whereas Blassingame is now (0-2). Wilson hails from Pontiac, Blassingame calls Flint residence. Heavyweights kicked off the evening with hometown Ali Atat having fun with a profitable professional debut over Grand Rapids’ Conway Beaudry (0-2), scoring two knockdowns within the first for a TKO at :55.