Heavyweight Jerry “Slugger” Forrest (28-6-2, 20 KOs) hammered out an eight round unanimous decision over Earl Newman (10-4-1, 7 KOs) on Wednesday night at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Slow-paced fight with Forrest doing more to win 78-74, 79-73, 78-74.
In the main event, Shurretta “Chiccn” Metcalf (14-4-1, 2 KOs) dethroned IBF female bantamweight champion Miyo Yoshida (17-5, 0 KOs) by ten round unanimous decision. The taller Metcalf successfully operated from the outside to compile a 96-94, 97-73, 99-91 score. Metcalf previously outpointed Yoshida 11 months ago.
Undefeated super lightweight “Marvelous” Mykquan Williams (22-0-2, 11 KOs) successfully defended the WBA Continental Americas Gold title with an eighth round KO against Lavisas “Red” Williams (10-2-1, 3 KOs). Mykquan dropped Lavisas twice in round one, and finished him with another knockdown in round eight. Time was 1:32.
Other Bouts:
Konrad Kaczmarkiewicz W6 Khainell Wheeler (light heavyweight)
Edward Vazquez TKO4 Kenneth Taylor (super featherweight)
Slugger needs a payday. Top Rank needs to match him up with a prospect. Golden Boy have any HWT
prospects? Maybe Eddie has somebody for Slugger
across the pond. Maybe an ad on Craigslist might
do it. Seriously though, I wish him well. Not easy
being a journeyman fighter in a sea of sharks.
This wasn’t the normal ProBox TV show. The matches were slanted to the promoters side…like a 70/30 type slant, not the normal 50/50 fights ProBox show serves up. It actually reveals that the recipe for ProBox works, and should stay away from a show produced by a promoter. I don’t think they’ll invite DiBella back, or any other promoter for that matter. Promoters are not in the business of throwing there investment into 50/50 fights every night. Last night’s show actually showed us what we don’t like to see …predictable fights. ProBox has a very nice thing going.
They’ve done it before. Before it actually started, they had DiBella talking about how grateful he was for the platform and they also worked with Lamont Roach Sr. on his son’s last fight. I have no problem with it. Like you said, it isn’t really their type of show, but no one would probably ever see these fights otherwise.
You missed an opportunity in the headline to say “Jerry Beats Newman”.