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Brewer clearly showed flashes of what earned him past Super-Middleweight championship recognition ... from start to finish it was Brewer controlling things on the inside - finally, in round five a wicked inside left uppercut rocked Barr and a following barrage of hooks and right hands had him near helpless.
Post-fite ringside chat with Atlas & Tessitore had Brewer shoutin' for an all-Philadelphia Hopkins affair ... sees it as the only realistic money maker for both hometown battlers - and he could well have guessed right on that call.
Opening fite a 4-rounder ... jr. lightweights Jason Litzan and Rodney Jones ... a sizzler could best describe this one ... Jones down in opening candle courtesy of right hand - late in second stanza saved by bell after being dropped by left-hook ... bout halted in round three after Jones is down from right hand.
Litzan goes to 5-0 with all wins via knockout route ... Jones is now 1-2-1 with only win arriving by knockout. Both need work on defensive skills but surely nothing more needed come the heart-guts department.
Semi-final jr. welter action saw Andre Eason besting Alberto Santiago by unanimous decision over ten rounds of give and take ... Santiago recovered from knockdowns in rounds two and three to have some moments of his own over 7-8-9 ... but it proved too little too late as Eason regained the edge in final round. Scoring went 95-93, 95-93, 96-93 for Eason.
Post Script: Mike "Hatchet" Brewer clearly showed at age 34 he can still get it done against the "right" opponent ... can also put the paying clientele in the seats. But a Hopkins battle of bragging rights would be an expensive one ... would rather see the hatchet man at this juncture staying the pick-n-choose route.
Former champ Charles "Hatchet" Brewer proved too much for a lesser skilled Freeman Barr following four and change rounds of a one-sided affair. Referee Randy Neuman halted things at 1:49 seconds mark of five with a battered Barr being hammered along the ring ropes.
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