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The Hauser Report: Notes and Nuggets from Sony Hall

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When Eric Greene took his seat at a ringside table at Sony Hall on April 27, fans in attendance could have been forgiven for thinking that he was an athlete. Greene is 6-feet-5-inches tall and well-built with a physical aura about him. But he’s not an athlete; not in the conventional sense anyway. He’s an opera singer.

Greene is one of the stars in the Metropolitan Opera Company’s production of Champion – an opera based on the life of Emile Griffith that will run at Lincoln Center through May 13. He sings the role of Benny Paret, who taunted Griffith with homosexual slurs at the weigh-in prior to their 1962 fight and was beaten to death in the ring that night. He also plays the role of Paret’s son, Benny Jr. (The photo above, provided by The Met, shows the aging Griffith tormented by memories of Benny Paret Sr.)

Greene grew up in Baltimore and began singing in a Pentecostal church when he was four years old. Verdi is his favorite composer. One of his ambitions is to sing a lead role in a major production of each opera in the Wagner Ring Cycle. He listens to classical music and jazz for pleasure and has a liking for Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra.

As a child, Greene heard about boxing’s all-time greats from his grandfather and uncles. Later, he went to parties where people watched Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, and Manny Pacquiao on television. But he’d never been to a fight before.

“I worked out with purpose for the role of Benny Paret,” Greene says. “It underscored for me the rigors of being a boxer and the commitment it takes to do it well.” But he has no illusions about the difference between boxing and an operatic production. “Watching the fighters move in the ring is interesting to me,” Eric notes. “I worked on movement for Champion. But to see it for real up close like this is very different.”

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As the fights at Sony Hall progressed, Greene offered some thoughts on what he saw as parallels between boxing and opera:

*          “Fighters need technique. They have to keep form. That same technique and form are what allow me to do what I do well.”

*          “The focus and tenacity a fighter has to have round after round after round is a bit like the focus and tenacity you need to sing opera.”

*          “Can you box? Can you sing? Can you do what it is that people pay money for you to do? So many people promote themselves on social media as being bigger and better than they are. But at the end of the day, either you deliver or you don’t.”

And what would Greene tell Benny Paret if he were able to talk with him today?

“I’d tell him that I admire his courage in getting in the ring, particularly that night when he didn’t feel right before the fight,” Greene answers. “There are times when I go onstage for a performance and don’t feel right. But that’s nothing compared to being a fighter.”

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As for the fights . . .

This was promoter Larry Goldberg‘s fourth fight card at Sony Hall. He’d lost significant money on the first three but is coming closer to making the economics of promoting club fights in New York work.

The event was styled as a “Broadway Boxing” promotion under the banner of DiBella Entertainment. DiBella was using the card as a pilot for what Lou hopes will be an ongoing series with DAZN. But Goldberg was responsible for most of the nuts-and-bolts work.

The first bout saw David Lopez (2-0, 2 KOs) outclass Nelson Morales (3-5) over four tedious rounds. Some “opponents” come to win. Morales (who’d lost his most recent four fights) came to survive.  He didn’t want to engage and lost every round.

Then Joshua Rivera (8-2, 3 KOs) faced off against Larry Fryers (11-6, 4 KOs, 3 KOs by). Fryers had been winless in his most recent six outings and Rivera had lost two of his last three. On the plus side, the fighters were evenly matched. Fryers prevailed when ring doctor Nitin Sethi appropriately stopped the bout after round five.

Then it was time for the most anticipated fight of the evening, a six-round grudge match between two fighters who are often on the B-side of bout sheets and genuinely dislike each other – Sydney Mccow (8-8, 3 KOs) vs. Christian Otero (4-3, 2 KOs). Adding fuel to the fire, Mccow’s wife had slapped Otero at the prefight weigh-in. That led Goldberg to hire extra security for the night.

Years ago, I interviewed Sylvester Stallone.

“I never went to a fight before I wrote Rocky,” Stallone told me. “The first fight I went to was Larry Holmes against Ken Norton at Caesars in Las Vegas. And to be honest, if I’d seen that fight before writing Rocky, the movie might have been a little different because one of the things that struck me about Holmes-Norton was the audience participation. At Holmes-Norton, I realized that the crowd is a character in itself.”

If you want to know whether or not a fight is entertaining, you can do one of two things. You can watch the fight or you can watch the crowd. If all eyes are focused on the ring and the crowd is cheering and “oohing” and “aahing,” it’s an entertaining fight. If people in the crowd are checking their cellphones and chatting casually with one another during rounds, most likely they’re bored.

Mccow-Otero was an entertaining fight between two evenly matched fighters, each of whom was fighting to win. Mccow was the aggressor and the stronger of the two. He was boxing and fighting. Otero was just boxing.

Matchmaking isn’t rocket science. People knew going in that Mccow-Otero would be a good fight. And it was. Mccow won a unanimous decision.

Miyo Yoshida (15-3) vs. Indeya Smith (6-6-2, 1 KO) was next – a bout between two women with one knockout between them in 32 fights. The room went quiet. People began checking their cellphones again. Yoshida won a majority decision.

That was followed by Tsendbaatar Erdenebat (5-0, 3 KOs) vs. Edy Valencia Mercado (20-9-6, 7 KOs). Erdenebat (a 2020 Mongolian Olympian) disappointed. As the bout progressed, he spent too much time moving and counterpunching en route to winning a lopsided 8-round decision rather than engaging with a one-dimensional opponent who has now won only once in his last six fights. There were some boos.

In the final bout of the evening, Brian Ceballo (13-1, 7 KOs) dominated but couldn’t stop Luis Alberto Veron (20-6-2, 9 KOs, 1 KO by), who has now won only 3 of his last 12 fights.

It was an unusual evening in that there were no knockdowns. More significantly, three of the six fights on the card were expected to be competitive. And they were. That’s a welcome relief from the A-side vs. B-side promotions that plague boxing today.

Thomas Hauser’s email address is thomashauserwriter@gmail.com. His most recent book – In the Inner Sanctum: Behind the Scenes at Big Fights – was published by the University of Arkansas Press. In 2004, the Boxing Writers Association of America honored Hauser with the Nat Fleischer Award for career excellence in boxing journalism. In 2019, Hauser was selected for boxing’s highest honor – induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

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Thomas Hauser is the author of 52 books. In 2005, he was honored by the Boxing Writers Association of America, which bestowed the Nat Fleischer Award for career excellence in boxing journalism upon him. He was the first Internet writer ever to receive that award. In 2019, Hauser was chosen for boxing's highest honor: induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Lennox Lewis has observed, “A hundred years from now, if people want to learn about boxing in this era, they’ll read Thomas Hauser.”

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Biyarslanov TKOed Mimoune at Montreal; Jalolov Conspicuous by his Absence

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It was a cold and snowy night in Montreal, depressing the turnout at the Montreal Casino where Camille Estephan’s Eye of the Tiger Promotions presented a six-fight card that aired in the U.S. on ESPN+.

The match-up that had the most intrigue, although not the main event and not expected to be remotely competitive, centered around heavyweight Bakhodir Jalolov who would be returning to the professional ranks after an absence of almost 14 months during which he fattened his extraordinary amateur profile. But the Montreal Commission nixed the match, ostensibly because Jalolov took sick after the weigh-in.

Main Event

The main event was a 10-round junior welterweight contest between well-acquainted southpaws Arthur Biyarslanov (pictured) and Mohamed Mimoune. The Toronto-based, Russian-born Biyarslanov, nicknamed the Chechen Wolf, had no trouble with his 37-year-old French opponent, taking Mimoune out on the second round.

Mimoune did not appear to be badly hurt after Biyarslanov knocked him to the canvas, but he had no antidote when Biyarslanov swarmed after him. With nothing come back Biyarslanov’s way, the referee sensibly waived it off. The official time was 2:16 of round three.

Biyarslanov (18-0, 15 KOs) looks like he can make some noise in the talent-rich 140-pound division. Mimoune, who had been stopped five times previously, declined to 24-7.

Co-Feature

Albert Ramirez, a 32-year-old Venezuelan, ranked in the Top Five by all four relevant sanctioning bodies, moved a step closer to a title fight with a third-round stoppage of Marco Calic.

As an amateur, Ramirez, who improved to 20-0 (17 KOs), defeated Cuban stalwarts Erislandy Savon and Julio Cesar La Cruz in 5-round fights. Tonight, he put his opponent away with a fusillade of punches. After rising from a knockdown, Calic got a brief respite when Ramirez was warned for an illegal punch behind the head, but Cacic’s body language informed us that the end was near.

The official time was 2:10 of round three. A 37-year-old Croatian making his North American debut, Calic lost for the second time in 17 starts.

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In a match-up between former Olympians contested at the catch-weight of 178 pounds, Montreal-based Mehmet Unal, who represented Turkey in the 2016 Games, scored a third-round stoppage of Ezequiel Maderna. The final punch was a looping right hand that knocked Maderna off his pins, leading to what some would argue was a quick stoppage. The official time was 1:41 of round three.

It was the second knockdown scored by Unal, the first coming in the previous round, a knockdown that was more of a push. But Maderna was holding his own in what was an entertaining fight for as long as it lasted. Unal, although rough-around-the-edges, is undefeated (12-0, 10 KOs) as a pro. Maderna, a 38-year-old Argentine, saw his ledger dip to 31-14.

Fast rising welterweight Christopher Guerrero scored the best win of his career with a fourth-round stoppage of Swiss journeyman Dennis Dauti. A two-time Canadian amateur champion, born in Mexico, Guerrero channeled Julio Cesar Chavez and ended the bout with a left hook to the body. Dauti made it to his feet although he was in obvious pain. Guerreo then tossed him to the canvas (officially a slip) and the referee waived it off before Guerrero (13-0, 8 KOs) had the opportunity to land another punch. The 31-year-old Dauti (25-6-2) hadn’t previously been stopped.

Super middleweight Moreno Fendero who has drawn comparisons with stablemate Christian Mbilli, had an easy workout with Edison Demaj, stopping the German-Albanian trial horse in the third round.

The 25-year-old Moreno, a former member of the French Army, scored three knockdowns before the match was halted at the 1:36 mark of the third round. The final knockdown was a looping right hand that landed high on Demaj’s temple. He beat the count, but the referee waived the match off with the approval of Demaj’s corner. Fendero improved to 9-0 (7 KOs). The overmatched Demaj falls to 13-4-1.

In the TV opener, lightweight Avery Martin-Duval, a local product, advanced to 13-0-1 (7) with an 8-round unanimous decision over French import Keshan Koaly (6-1-2) The scores were 77-74 and 77-73 twice

From Nice with roots in the French territory of Guadalupe, Koaly knocked Martin-Duval to his knees in the second frame with a jab to the midsection. Two rounds later, the local lad landed the best punch of the fight, staggering Koaly with a counter right hand that immediately caused a purplish welt to develop under his right eye. From that point on, Martin-Duval controlled the action.

Upsets are extremely rare on Eye of the Tiger events. Tonight was no exception.

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How good is Bakhodir Jalolov? Some would argue that in terms of pure talent, the six-foot-seven southpaw from Uzbekistan who has knocked out all 14 of his opponents since turning pro, is better than any heavyweight you can name. Others say that this can’t possibly be true or his braintrust wouldn’t keep feeding him junk food. Jalolov has been brought along as gingerly as Christopher Lovejoy who was exposed as a fraud after running up a skein of 19 straight fast knockouts,

One thing that’s indisputable is that Jalolov was one of the best amateurs to come down the pike in recent memory. A three-time Olympian and two-time gold medalist, Jalolov won 58 of his last 59 amateur bouts. The exception was a match in which he did not compete which translated into a win by walkover for his opponent, countryman Lazizbek Mullojonov.

The circumstances are vague. Was Jalolov a no-show because of an injury or illness or a technicality? Amateur boxing, save in a few places or in an Olympic year, is the quintessential niche sport. The mainstream media does not cover it.

What we do know, thanks to boxrec, is that Jalolov caught up with Mullojonov in May of last year in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk and won a split decision. And Mollojonov was no slouch. He too won a gold medal at the Paris Games, winning the heavyweight division to give the powerful Uzbekistan contingent the championship in the two heaviest weight classes.

Jalolov, whose late father was a champion free-style wrestler, has answered the bell as a pro for only 35 rounds. The Belgian-Congolese campaigner Jack Mulowayi came closest to taking the big Uzbek the distance, lasting into the eighth round of an 8-round fight. But when Jalolov closed the show, he did it with a highlight reel knockout, knocking Mulowayi into dreamland with a vicious left hook.

The KO was reminiscent of Jalolov’s most talked-about win as an amateur, his first-round blast-out of Richard Torrez Jr at a tournament in Ekaterinburg, Russia, in 2019. Torrez, knocked out cold with a left hook, left the ring on a stretcher and was removed to a hospital for evaluation.

This was the first AIBA-sanctioned international tournament in which pros were allowed to compete and WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman was incensed, calling the match-up “criminal” in a tweet that was widely circulated. (Jalolov then had six pro fights under his belt.) They would meet again in the finals of the Tokyo Olympiad with the Uzbek winning a unanimous decision.

Perhaps there will be a third meeting down the road. When Jared Anderson was roughed-up and stopped by Martin Bakole, Torrez Jr (currently 12-0, 11 KOs) vaulted ahead of him on the list of the top home-grown American heavyweights. But Torrez Jr, a short-armed heavyweight who overcomes his physical limitations with a windmill offense, would be a heavy underdog should they ever meet again.

Bakhodir Jalolov’s last bout before heading off to Paris was against the obscure South African Chris Thompson. His match on Thursday at the Montreal Casino in Montreal pits him against an obscure 33-year-old Frenchman, David Spilmont.

Spilmont’s last two opponents were the same guy, an undersized Lithuanian slug who has lost 36 of his 41 documented fights. It seems almost inevitable that Spilmont will suffer the same fate as Thompson who was KOed in the first round.

There’s talk that Jalolov doesn’t really care how far he advances at the professional level; that he has his sights set on the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles where he would have an opportunity to become only the fourth boxer to win three Olympic gold medals, joining the immortal Teofilo Stevenson, Hungarian legend Laszlo Papp, and Cuban standout Felix Savon. Were he to accomplish the hat trick, they would build monuments to him in Uzbekistan. But, if that is his mindset, he’s skating on thin ice. There’s no guarantee that boxing will be on the docket at the Los Angeles Games and, if so, the powers-that-be may choose to roll back the calendar to the days when the competition was off-limits to anyone with professional experience.

While it’s true that Jalolov needs to work off some rust, a pox on promoter Camille Estephan and his enabler, the Quebec Boxing Commission, for not dredging up a more credible opponent than the grossly overmatched David Spilmont.

Jalolov vs. Spilmont is ostensibly the co-feature. The main event is a 10-round junior welterweight clash between Movladdin “Arthur” Biyarslanov (17-0, 14 KOs) and Spilmont stablemate Mohamed Mimoune (24-6, 5 KOs). Undefeated light heavyweights Albert Ramirez and Mehmet Unal will appear in separate bouts on the undercard. The Feb. 6 event, currently consisting of seven bouts, will air in the U.S. on ESPN+ starting at 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT.

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Claressa Shields blasted her way to the undisputed heavyweight championship and nearly knocked out challenger Danielle Perkins in the final seconds, but settled for a win by unanimous decision on Sunday.

Yes, she can punch.

“I just feel overwhelmed and so happy.” Shields said.

Shields (16-0, 3 KOs) proved that even the super athletic Perkins (5-1, 2 KOs), a true heavyweight, could not stop her from becoming an undisputed world champion in a third weight division at Dort Arena in Flint, Michigan, her home town.

In the opening round it was easy to see the size difference. Shields calmly measured Perkins long right jabs then countered with rocket rights through the guard. The speed was evident in Shield’s punches. Perkins used jabs to work her way in but was caught with counters.

“That girl was strong as hell,” said Shields describing Perkins.

Perkins, a southpaw, was somewhat confident that she was the stronger puncher and the stronger fighter overall. But when Shields connected with 10 rocket overhand rights in the third round the power moved Perkins several feet backward.

Suddenly, Perkins realized that indeed Shields has power.

Perkins became more cautious with her approaches. Though the true heavyweight was not frozen in fear, she was wary about getting caught flush with Shields rights. But bullet jabs and lightning combinations still rained on Perkins.

Finding a way to nullify Shields speed was crucial for Perkins.

The former basketball player Perkins continually proved her athleticism with agile moves here and there, but Shields just was superior in every way.

When Perkins became focused too much on the right, a Shields left hook caught the New York native flush. Suddenly there was another Shields weapon to worry about.

Many critics of Shields had focused on her lack of knockouts. But in her previous fight against another heavyweight, the two-time Olympic gold medalist surprised Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse with knockout power. It’s the same power Shields showed Perkins as if firing a fast ball by powering her right with leverage by using her left leg to produce momentum and an explosive punch.

In the 10th and final round Shields and Perkins exchanged blows. Perkins was looking to connect with one of her power shots when suddenly Shields countered with a perfectly timed right to the chin and down went Perkins with about 10 seconds remaining. She beat the count to finish the round.

“I showed I was the bigger puncher and better boxer,” said Shields. “I knew I could do it because I’m really strong at heavyweight.”

All three judges favored Shields 100-89, 99-90 and 97-92.

It was another convincing performance by Shields. So what is next for the best female fighter pound for pound?

“I want to fight Franchon Crews, Hanna Gabriels,” said Shields also naming a few others. “Flint, (Michigan) I love you all so much.”

Other Bouts

A heavyweight clash saw why there is a rule against holding. Brandon Moore (17-1) and Skylar Lacy (8-1-2) punched and held throughout their eight rounds. Referee Steve Willis finally disqualified Lacy when he tackled Moore and took him through the ropes and on to table below.

No, holding and clinching is not part of the fight game. Now you know why.

Moore was ruled the winner by disqualification due to unsportsmanlike conduct by Lacy at 1:35 of the eighth. No need to describe the fight.

A battle between undefeated welterweights saw Joseph Hicks (12-0, 8 KOs) stop Keon Papillon (10-1-1, 7 KOs) at 1:35 of the seventh round. Hicks stunned Papillon at the end of the sixth, then unloaded in the seventh round to force a stoppage.

Joshua Pagan (12-0) out-battled Ronal Ron (16-8) over eight rounds to win the lightweight match by unanimous decision.

Samantha Worthington (11-0) defeated Vaida Masiokaite (10-27-6) by decision after eight rounds in a super lightweight bout.

Featherweight Caroline Veyre (9-1) out-boxed the shorter Carmen Vargas (5-3-1) to win by decision after six rounds.

Super bantamweight Asheleyann Lozada (1-0) won her pro debut by unanimous decision over Denise Moran (3-1) in a four-round fight.

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R.I.P. Paul Bamba (1989-2024): The Story Behind the Story

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