Terre Haute Weekend

Here's the rundown from this weekend's fights from Terre Haute as told by Coach Jimmy:

Saturday

Kreed Gentz and Jonah Wilson both dominated in their performances. Both won decisions. Jon Stepp lost a decision to a tough kid. Jon just never really got into the fight. Patrick Garcia was winning his fight when the doctor stopped it in the third round for too much blood from the nose. The ref after the fight told me that the doc shouldn’t have stopped it and that the doc. hasn’t done a boxing match before and didn’t know what he was doing. After the first round, Patrick told me that he felt horrible. After the second round, a round that he spanked the kid in, he said that he felt awesome! The kid is a fighter! At the end of day one, our record for the Jr. Olympic Tourney was 2-2.

Sunday

Doug Stamper left no question as to who won his fight. He landed explosive shots that at one point almost knocked his opponent through the ropes! Decision victory for Doug! Kreed was up next. Kreed came out more hungry than the day before! He was relentless in his attack. When asked if he was ready to fight, his response was a growl!! I knew he was ready to fight! He picked up two wins in two days! Next up was Matt Mezzacapo. Matt lost a tough battle that had everyone in the crowd wondering who the winner would be. It was three non-stop, action packed rounds for our viewing pleasure! This was Matt’s first fight, and after getting settled after the first round, he was nailing the kid with shot after shot! The kid he fought had already had previous fights. Matt lost a close decision. Anthony Perry couldn’t wait to get in there. He seemed to fade fast and was out of gas, down on the score cards, and bleeding heavily from the nose going into the third round. Anthony somewhere pulled in a second win out of nowhere! He won the last round on the scorecards 17-2. He had the crowd on their feet and yelling. Mezzacapo had the fight of the day until Anthony stole it away. The crowd went crazy while Anthony was calling his opponent in, then bouncing off the ropes and hitting him with straight right hands, left hooks, and uppercuts! Anthony Perry was the winner after 3 tough rounds! Final fight of the trip was the Biscuit, Steve Beseke. Biscuit lost the first round and was not responding in the corner, I thought I would give him a little of the second before I stopped it. Some how, Biscuit pulled some energy out. He turned it up and won the second round with his jab. Third round was more of the same. Biscuit the victor in a decision!

Great trip, Great time! Coach Ern and I became officials at a coaching clinic! We can’t wait to travel again! Wished you could have been there Mengel!