UTBA All-Star Match
January 24th, 2007
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HW
(Silver Listed First)
Ken Norton
UD12 Earnie Shavers
Peter Jackson
TKO10 Earnie Shavers
Peter Jackson
TKO9 Tony Tucker
Ken Norton
UD12 Tony Tucker
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Scoreboard:
Gold All-Stars: 0-4 (0) = 0
Silver All-Stars: 4-0 (2) = 10
Silver takes the early lead behind great performances by their Heavies who handled the Gold HWs with ease.
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LHW
Prince Charles Williams
KO4 Bob Foster
Matthew Saad Muhammad
LKO10 Archie Moore
Matthew Saad Muhammad
LKO8 Bob Foster
Prince Charles Williams
LTKO11 Archie Moore
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Scoreboard:
Gold All-Stars: 3-5 (3) = 9
Silver All-Stars: 5-3 (3) = 13
Moore and Foster destroyed Muhammad dropping him 8 times combined and Moore also droped Williams 5 times on route to the TKO getting the Gold back into the match but Williams' huge KO over Foster ensures that the Silver holds the lead heading into the MWs.
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MW
Tony Zale
LTKO11 Mickey Walker
Tony Zale
TKO9 Dick Tiger
Jermain Taylor
KO6 Dick Tiger
Jermain Taylor
LTKO9 Mickey Walker
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Scoreboard:
Gold All-Stars: 5-7 (5) = 15
Silver All-Stars: 7-5 (5) = 19
Mickey did what Mickey does best and that is to crush his opposition however Dick Tiger was unable to hold up his end getting stopped twice by Zale and Taylor keeping the Silver lead at 4.
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WW
Johnny Saxton
LKO2 Pipino Cuevas
Johnny Saxton
Draw Lloyd Honeyghan
Marlon Starling
LUD12 Lloyd Honeyghan
Marlon Starling
LUD12 Pipino Cuevas
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Scoreboard:
Gold All-Stars: 8-7-1 (6) = 23
Silver All-Stars: 7-8-1 (5) = 20
The WWs come up huge for the Gold led by Pipino Cuevas who blitzed Saxton and came very close to stopping Starling to give the Gold their first lead of the match. Somewhere, Javier is doing the dance of joy in honor of his fellow Mexican's success.
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LW
Carlos Ortiz
TKO5 Edwin Rosario
Carlos Ortiz
MD12 Dave Charnley
Alexis Arguello
UD12 Edwin Rosario
Alexis Arguello
TKO1 Dave Charnley
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Scoreboard:
Gold All-Stars: 8-11-1 (6) = 23
Silver All-Stars: 11-8-1 (7) = 30
Alexis Arguello and Carlos Ortiz make sure that the Gold lead is short lived by sweeping Edwin Rosario and Dave Charnely. Alexis knowing he couldn't go a full 12 with Charnley, due to showing up in bad shape, decided instead to just blast him out as quickly as possible. He dropped Dave with his first punch and then forced the stoppage soon after.
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FW
Barry McGuigan
LUD12 Bernard Taylor
Young Griffo
LUD12 Jeff Fenech
Young Griffo
LUD12 Bernard Taylor
Barry McGuigan
TKO7 Jeff Fenech
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Scoreboard:
Gold All-Stars: 11-12-1 (6) = 29
Silver All-Stars: 12-11-1 (8) = 33
Bernard Taylor gave Barry McGuigan a boxing lesson for most of their match and Young Griffo's chin failed him as multiple KDs costed him two decisions letting Gold creep with 1 point. However, Barry redeemed himself as his power proved to be the difference in his match with Fenech giving him the stoppage and the Silver a 4 point lead with two weightclasses left.
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BW
Alfonso Zamora
TKO10 Lupe Pintor
Jeff Chandler
UD12 Lupe Pintor
Alfonso Zamora
LKO8 Jose Medel
Jeff Chandler
MD12 Jose Medel
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Scoreboard:
Gold All-Stars: 11-15-1 (7) = 32
Silver All-Stars: 15-11-1 (9) = 40
Jeff Chandler showed the heart and will of a champion as he pulled out the last round of a very tight fight with Jose Medel to get the Majority Decision and extend the Silver lead to 8. The Gold still has a shot at winning but they must sweep the Fly class.
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FLY
Pitchit Siriwat
SD12 Guty Espadas
Jorge Arce
LTKO4 Vic Darchinyan
Jorge Arce
TKO12 Guty Espadas
Pitchit Siriwat
LTKO12 Vic Darchinyan
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Scoreboard:
Gold All-Stars: 13-17-1 (9) = 38
Silver All-Stars: 17-13-1 (10) = 45
Having lose 4 of the last 5 rounds and down by 3 points on all scorecards Jorge Arce came out like a house on fire and scored what would have been a highly dramatic stoppage victory over Guty Espadas if Pitchit Siriwat hadn't easily outboxed Guty to seal the win for the Silver a couple fights earlier. Make no mistake Siriwat won that fight without any doubt the judge that scored it for Guty must have been drunk.
Congrats to the Silver for winning the first annual UTBA All Star match.