The ESPN2 FNF offering from Hollywood, Florida delivered a lightweight pairing
with veteran Ricky Quiles besting a young, aggressive Edner "Cherry Bomb" Cherry
via split decision following 12 entertaining stanzas.
Quiles the elder at age 34, brought a home cooked recipe of southpaw survival to
compensate the shortage of firepower while facing a 22 year old Cherry that
loaded up over most the dozen action packed candles.
It says here that both lightweights benefited from the experience - Quiles lives
to battle another day and Cherry surely learns from the experience.
Quiles baffled Cherry over the early going with an ongoing unorthodox style of
counterpunching … the young power punching Cherry was coming up short while
loading up from both sides with wild shooting for the cheap seats.
A round six point deduction charged to Cherry didn’t help the cause - it also
was not warranted - holding behind the head while punching is as bush as it
gets, but that was the infraction in the eyes of referee Tommy Kimmons.
Still, Cherry would fight himself back into the contest once opting to go the
body punch route … and things tightened a bit as the bout went into deep water.
Final tallies went to Quiles 114-113, 116-111 and Cherry 114-113 … this
unofficial had it Quiles 7-4 in rounds and 116-112 in points.
Post Scripts: Ricky Quiles ~ The win keeps the veteran afloat at ESPN - Sho-Box
level pay days … that’s the good news. Bad news would be this win moves him to
"opponent" level status against the serious ones at 135.
Edner Cherry ~ This Bahamian bomber at only age 22 is not
all that far from bigger and better things. Kid comes ready to wage war, has
given quickness and power in both hands. Needs a rhythm to help find a target.
The wild-N- wacky cheap seats offerings will never get the job done. Simply put
… should work and/or be taught a comfortable style of combination punching off
the jab … and then we got ourselves a valid prospect.
