"Wednesday Night at the Fights" at the National Italian
American Sports Hall of Fame maybe should have been tagged, "Night of the
Knockout" as all four bouts on the card came to an early stoppage.
In a dual Main Event format, the capacity crowd saw Italian Super
Featherweight Champion Ivan "Matador" Fiorletta put on a display of boxing
skills against a very game, late replacement, Miguel Alvarez of
Columbus, Ohio. In a real crowd pleaser Fiorletta boxed beautifully from
both orthodox and southpaw stances throughout the fight. Alvarez was down
late in Round 5 and the referee halted the bout in Round 6, when Fiorletta
cornered Alvarez and unloaded a blistering flurry of punches to which
Alvarez, still standing, could not respond. To illustrate the toughness of
Alvarez, who was cut above the left eye in
the 3rd round from a straight right hand, he was cornered late in the 5th
with Fiorletta landing punches in bunches for about fifteen seconds, with
Alvarez taking every punch Fiorletta stepped back and shook his head in
disbelief to which Alvarez responded with a simple shoulder shrug. Fiorellta
improves his record to 15-2-2 and recorded his 7th Knockout, Alvarez falls
to 4-6-1.
In the other featured bout of the evening found unbeaten, local Heavyweight
prospect Mike Mollo against another late replacement in journeyman Shawn
Robinson. Mollo dropped Robinson four times in the
1st Round before the referee stopped the bout at 2:51. Mollo improves his
record to 13-0 with this his 7th Knockout, Robinson falls to 16-15.
In the first under card of the evening young Middleweight Eric Batista(2-0
2KO's) scored a TKO over David Love(1-3 1KO), when the referee stopped the
bout after Love was down for the second time in the first round, official
time was 2:26.
In the second under card Super middleweight Devin Lopez(2-1 2 KO's) scored a
KO victory over Kelly Prater (0-2) when Prater dropped to one knee from a
straight right hand and decided not to beat the count.
Official time of the bout was 1:44 of the 1st round.
