Khabib Allakhverdiev captured the WBA title by out punching former two division champion and previously undefeated Joan Guzman 33-1-1(20KO). The very entertaining main event ended with a knee injury to Guzman caused by an accidental foul. The atmosphere at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, FL. had the feel major world championship fight as Guzman made a crowd pleasing and energetic ring entrance that included an escort and live performance by rapper DMX, all part of a special evening, Beatdown 2012.
From the opening bell, the Russian Allakhverdiev did not back down and gained respect from Guzman with hard punches that was answered with an aggressive attack from the hard charging Dominican. After splitting the first two rounds Allakhverdiev floored Guzman in round three with a right and left hook. Guzman beat the count and although he was clearly affected by the punches, he went right back to center of the ring brawling with the tough Allakhverdiev. Rounds four and five saw the tough Russian slowly dismantle the Dominicans face with straight left hands, right hooks and uppercuts. The hard nosed Guzman kept coming and kept punching turning a fight into a brawl. Between rounds the ringside physician closely looked in on Guzman as the best cutman in the business, Rafael Garcia went to work on his mangled face. Guzman came out to round seven and let his hands go slowly turning the momentum in his favor, slowly adding to his bloody new handy work of a cut on the Russians face. Guzman won a good round seven but by my scorecard, was still down by two points with five rounds to go. Guzman went down from a clash of knees and was slow to get up. With the unintentional foul he was given time to recover. Once time was called in Allakhverdiev swarmed Guzman and unleashed a barrage of punches until Guzman went to the canvas again in what appeared to be as result of overwhelming punches. Referee Luis Pavon saw it as another result of the knee injury and called an official time out while they sorted it all out. Guzman was unable to continue so they went to the scorecards after 8 rounds. Officially the cards read 76-75 for Guzman and 76-75 twice for Allakhverdiev
The Co Main Event of the evening had the vacant WBA Fedlatin super welterweight title on the line. Tough and tested Colombian RIchard Gutierrez was looking to get his career back in line facing a student of the late and great Emanuel Steward in Domonique D3 Dolton. Dolton punched hard from the outside trying to control the pressure from the Colombian who as looking for his first win in seven bouts. D3 was able to put some nice combinations together in the fourth round and slowly starting to chop away at a game Gutierrez. Gutierrez stood in front of the Detriot product and made for a game opponent to the final bell. Consider this a passed test for D3 and a wake up call to the level of elevated competition that awaits him. The scorecards read 100-90 twice and 99-91.
In the opening bout of the evening Umberto Savigne10-1(7KO) retained his WBA Fedlatin light heavyweight title, but not after tasting the canvas in round three by result of a left hook. Dhafir “No Fear” Smith 26-5-7(22KO) gave a fair challenge to the title however neither boxer engaged and fought very cautiously. Smith often looked slow and was beat to the punch while the Cuban slowly started putting punches together was the fight wore on. Round eight was the most entertaining round in my opinion. Officially scored a unanimous decision win with the score cards reading. 98-91, and 96-93 twice. I had the fight 96-93.
Claudio Marrero 14-0 (11KO)retained his WBA Fedlatin featherwieght title with a dominating stoppage over Panamanian Mauricio “Nanara” Martinez 34-16(KO). It was clear that Marrero was the fast and stronger fighter every second of the fight. Marrero knocked Martinez down twice in the first round, the first a compliment of a great straight left hand and a second from a blistering fast right left from the rising southpaw star. The end came at !:38 of round four went referee Sam Burgos stepped in to stop the fight. I felt the stoppage was a bit premature, but it was obvious Martinez was not going to win the fight. Martinez was just taken the distance by Jorge Arce in September and Marrero was able to take him out in four.
Isiah “Black Mamba” Thomas is the new WBA Fedlatin Cruiserwieght champion after outpointing Richard “The Destroyer” Hall 30-11(28KO). Thomas used his commanding jab and combinations to keep the journeyman Hall at bay winning mostly every round. Thomas was deducted two questionable points for holding in rounds 4 and 5. Hall was given an eight count in round three after being overwhelmed by a host of punches from the Detroit fighter Thomas. There was not a clear knockdown rather Halls glove touched the canvas. The final cards read 98-89, 97-90 and 96-91.
Ed “The Lion” Parades 32-3-1(21KO) had his work cut out for him as he outpointed and outboxed iron chinned Hector “The Hurricane” Munoz 20-9-1(13KO) over ten rounds. Parades was forced to keep the hard charging at bay with a steady diet of straight punches. Where Munoz kept the rounds close with constant pressure pushing Parades to the ropes and trying to smother the Dominican to no avail as The Lion landed the more meaningful punches inside and did everything he could to take Munoz out. Munoz kept it coming until the final bell. Where his effort clearly was not enough to win the fight, his fight was very admirable from a courage and heart standpoint. The final cards read 100-89 and 99-90 twice.
Beatdown 2012 Promoter Aquinity Sports teamed up with bSaving.com and provided a unique event that combined live championship boxing and chart-topping musical talent, and produced a brilliant one-two combination that gave South Florida fans a chance to unite and enjoy a true mash up of talents. What started with competitive world class championship boxing and 18-0(8KO) capturing the WBA light welterweight belt, ending with powerful concerts from the likes of DMX Flo-RIda, Waka Flaka Flame, Fabulous, Travis Porter, Fat Joe.
