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KENTUCKY TEEN MAKES
VICTORIOUS DEBUT DOWN UNDER
Thursday 19 September 2002
While most of America was sleeping, 19 year-old Kentucky native Jack Blackburn made a successful start to his professional boxing career. Fighting at the Sydney Stadium in Australia at 3am US east coast time, Blackburn scored a no-nonsense unanimous decision victory over Colombia's Hugo Barraza (58-55, 57-56, 58-55) in his opening Lightweight Future Contender series bout.
Blackburn's lightning fists and defensive skills gave Barraza all kinds of headaches but to his credit the Colombian showed some stubborn resistance during the middle rounds. Wearing oversized trunks of solid white, Blackburn sent Barraza to the canvas with a flush uppercut twenty seconds from the end of round one and after Barraza's mid-fight resurgence the Versailles-born teenager finished nicely with a dominant 5th and 6th. Blackburn outlanded Barraza 227-88.
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Boston's Sammy Fuller suffered a surprise unanimous decision defeat at the hands of Venezuela's Alfredo Marcano in the Co-Feature (59-55, 60-55 58-57). It was an underwhelming contest in which neither man never really got going, although Marcano showed more aggression and was rewarded for it on the scorecards.
SUMMARY OF RESULTS
INTERNATIONAL BOXING LEAGUE FIGHT CARD
THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2002
SYDNEY STADIUM, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
IBL FUTURE CONTENDER SERIES
LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION - GROUP ONE, SERIES ONE
OPENING BOUT
Bob Allotey MD6 Enrique Bolanos
PRELIMINARY 1
Sammy Angott D6 George Dunn
PRELIMINARY 2
Mario Martinez UD6 Emory Cabana
SUPPORT BOUT
Jose Luis Ramirez D6 Jackie Beard
CO-FEATURE
Alfredo Marcano UD6 Sammy Fuller
MAIN EVENT
Jack Blackburn UD6 Hugo Barraza
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