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NEW YORK (FEBRUARY 13, 2012)—Last Saturday night at Times Union Center in Albany, New York undefeated Heavyweight Joe Hanks scored an explosive second round stoppage over Rafael Pedro to retain his IBA Americas Title.
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Hanks (19-0, 13 KO’s) threw his name in the hat to become America’s hope to bring back the Heavyweight crown as hanks dominate the action from the opening bell and then floored Pedro. Pedro then signaled to the referee that he was unable to continue and the bout was stopped just forty-eight seconds into round two.
Sahabib Usarov made an impressive American debut by scoring a ten round unanimous decision over former Cuban Olympic Gold Medal winner Yan Barthelemy in a Bantamweight bout.
With the win Usarov is now 18-0.
Kevin Rooney Jr. scored a four round unanimous decision over Stanley Harvey in a Jr, Middleweight bout.
Good looking knockout artist Jason Escalera remained perfect (13-0, 12 KO’s) by taking out Marcus Brooks in round four of a scheduled eight round Super Middleweight contest.
In a shocking upset, Bryan Abraham (6-10, 6 KO’s) took out local favorite Darnell Jiles (8-3-1)
Mike Seitz of Albany thrilled the home folks be scoring a first round stoppage over Karim Richardson.
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STORM BATTERS ISLAND
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA) November 18, 1999 | WYCLIFFE RICHARDSON, Associated Press writer THE VALLEY, Anguilla — Hurricane Lenny loomed off a string of Dutch and British Caribbean islands today after slamming its 150 mph winds against St. Croix, where it flung boats onto the beach, flooded roads and homes and tore away a pier.
The late-season storm has killed at least four people from Colombia to Dutch St. Maarten in the northeast Caribbean. In Puerto Rico, the storm battered a Russian freighter carrying cement, forcing it to run aground near San Juan’s 17th-century El Morro fortress.
On Tuesday, two fishermen drowned off Colombia’s Caribbean peninsula, and rains destroyed half of a coastal village, leaving 540 people homeless.
One man died in the Puerto Rican capital, San Juan, after he fell off a ladder as he tried to board up windows. A man in St. Maarten died Wednesday when the garden wall of his hillside home collapsed on him. go to site beaches in florida
Feeding off the warm Caribbean waters, Lenny’s winds strengthened to 150 mph Wednesday, just 5 mph short of being a Category 5 hurricane, the strongest hurricane rating. Category 5 hurricanes can cause catastrophic damage.
By this morning, Lenny’s winds had weakened to 135 mph. At 10 a.m. EST, the eye of the storm was stalled 35 miles west-southwest of St. Maarten, but was expected to move slowly east-northeastward on a trajectory that would take it over St. Maarten, Saba and Anguilla, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
The hurricane was unlikely to strike the mainland United States, said meteorologist Stacy Stewart at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. He cautioned, however, that Lenny still could bring heavy surf capable of eroding beaches in Florida.
“The influence of this storm is going to be felt considerable distances away,” he said.
In St. Croix, an unidentified tourist who ventured out of a hotel to see the rising surf was carried away by waves and had to cling to a rock for more than an hour before local divers rescued him, said Gov. Charles Turnbull of the U.S. Virgin Islands. this web site beaches in florida
St. Maarten Public Works Commissioner Roy Marlin worried that the Great Salt Pond, which serves as a rain catchbasin, might overflow and flood the capital, Philipsburg as winds lashed the Dutch territory.
Even before the hurricane arrived, storm surges that whipped up 12-foot waves stripped sand from Anguilla’s famous beaches. The beaches, which attract the tourists who provide the British island’s biggest source of revenue, already had been damaged by Hurricane Jose last month.
High waves from Lenny pounded islands as far east as Dominica. In St. Lucia, some houses were washed away and a gasoline station was set ablaze when wave damage caused a short-circuit that ignited kerosene.
