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PHOTOS page 14
Sechew Powell vs. Cornelius Bundrage & Yuri Foreman vs. Kevin Cagle Photos By Brendon Pierpaoli
Text below by Alex Pierpaoli
Undefeated junior middleweights, Sechew Powell and Cornelius Bundrage collided in the main event. Both fighters stunned and dropped each other with the very first punches they threw in round number one. Rising from the freakish double-knockdown quickly, both men wanted to get right back into the action but it was Powell who immediately connected with a thumping straight left to the chin of Bundrage that sent him down again.
Rising on wobbly legs, Bundrage stumbled across the ring and fell twice more from the single blow before Ref. Dick Flaherty halted the fight. The official time of the stoppage, twenty-two seconds.
Yuri Foreman battled eight rough but engaging rounds with Greensboro, NC’s Kevin Cagle. Clearly outgunned by the stronger and more aggressive Foreman, Cagle slipped into a defensive mode he couldn’t get out of early in the fight. Unable to launch any of his own offensive efforts, Cagle worked hard to be elusive and to last the distance under Foreman’s pressured attack.
Yuri Foreman, an orthodox Jew who emigrated from Belarus, now fights out of Brooklyn, NY, enters the ring to Jimmi Hendrix music and sports a Mohawk without the shaved portions of scalp typical to the hairstyle. He is perhaps one of boxing’s most multi-cultural of the young prospects.
Andre Berto vs. Tim Himes-SHO-BOX
Andre Berto of Winterhaven, FL, crushed Tim Himes of Eerie, PA in 2:10 of round number one. Berto, a former 2004 Haitian Olympian, attacks his opponents with a Tyson-esque urgency and need to do harm that thrills fans and startles opponents. Himes was quickly overwhelmed by Andre Berto’s snappy left hook and predatory aggression.
Elvin Ayala (in red) vs. Ray Darden (in black)
Undefeated middleweight, New Haven
CT’s Elvin Ayala, defeated Raynard Darden, of Detroit. The official judges saw
the bout as a unanimous win for Ayala but this writer had the bout even at
57-57. Though Ayala started strong he seemed tired and a little puzzled in the
later rounds while trying to deal with the taller and more elusive Darden.
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