Group Fight League’s Season 2 Quarterfinals continued Sunday, July 21, with an action-packed doubleheader from 2300 Enviornment in Philadelphia, the place, within the evening’s opening leg, coach Herman Caicedo’s Miami Stealth earned a spot within the TCL semifinals with a formidable 229-222 victory Benny Roman and Ryan O’Leary’s defending champion N.Y.C. Perspective.
The Stealth sprinted out to the early lead by profitable 4 of the primary six fights and by no means relinquished it.
New York introduced Miami’s lead right down to a single level in Spherical 13, after featherweight Kayla Yontef defeated Miami’s Katharina Lehner 10-9 to make the rating 123-122. Nevertheless, the highly effective fists of Miami middleweight Yordan “El Diamante” Barrera crushed their comeback hopes by knocking out N.Y.C.’s Eslih Owusu in Spherical 14. The one-punch KO earned Barrera the evening’s first star award.
“This feels wonderful. I prepare very onerous to try this, particularly when my group wants it,” stated Barrera. “I’m grateful to be right here and grateful to the New York group for coming and competing so onerous. I anticipated nothing much less. Thanks to TCL. My teammates and I’ve educated onerous within the gymnasium collectively from day one and it looks like we’re going to win all of it.”
The second star of the evening was Miami middleweight Raidel Rodriguez, who defeated New York’s Lasha Gurguliani in Rounds 6 and 19 by twin 10-9 margins. The third star was awarded to New York heavyweight Pryce Taylor for his two 10-9 victories over Nestor Santana in Spherical 8 and Gustavo Trujillo in Spherical 23.
New York welterweight and TCL Rookie of the Yr and TCL Most Entertaining Fighter Award twin nominee Ryan Zempoaltecatl went 1-1 on the evening, defeating Miami’s Orestes Velazquez 10-9 in Spherical 12 and shedding 10-9 to veteran Claudio Marrero in Spherical 20, as did TCL Most Resilient Fighter Award nominee Yunieski Gonzalez, who defeated New York’s Tre’Vaughn Jones 10-9 in Spherical 18 and misplaced 10-9 to Atif Oberlton in Spherical 15.
Featherweight Rookie of the Yr nominee Enrique Leon misplaced his solely look 10-9 to Opeyemi Adeyemi in Spherical 1. TCL Most Resilient Fighter Award nominee featherweight former world champion “Queen” Ronica Jeffrey gained her one look 10-9 over Tyler Schaefer in Spherical 10, whereas fellow nominee welterweight Melissa “Little Miss Tyson” St Vil was 0-2 in opposition to Miami’s star U.S. Olympian Ginny Fuchs.
Miami Rookie of the Yr Award nominee welterweight Samantha Ginithan noticed her undefeated TCL document drop to 8-1, 1 KO by shedding 10-9 to New York’s Feifilimai Faiva in Spherical 5.
The Battle of the Evening was awarded to the Spherical 3 light-weight brawl between New York’s Sherbek Rakhmatulloev and Miami’s Armando Rabi, who traded knockdowns throughout their three livid minutes of motion, gained by Rabi 9-8 for his mid-round comeback to place his group up 29-26.
“It helps to have a set group,” stated comfortable Miami coach Herman Caicedo. “We’ve been collectively the entire yr and I’ve been capable of coach them. They know what to anticipate. I consider that’s a bonus. I really feel fabulous and I’m comfortable to be right here. TCL is a brilliant thrilling platform that provides something boxing-related a run for its cash. We’ll clear up errors we made immediately and we’re coming again to win the entire thing. We’re not right here to simply do nicely.”
FIRST-PLACE PHILLY SMOKE SQUAD DEFEAT LAS VEGAS HUSTLE 229-223 AT HOME TO ADVANCE TO TCL SEASON 2 SEMIFINALS
The common season league-leading Philly Smoke reasserted themselves as favorites to win all of it this yr by taking down the Las Vegas Hustle 229-223 in entrance of their hometown followers on the 2300 Enviornment in Philadelphia.
Combating within the second half of a quarterfinal playoff doubleheader, coach Bob Kane’s Philly Smoke managed to run off 10 consecutive victories to start the match and by no means regarded again, conceding simply 4 in-ring defeats all evening.
Philly elected to save lots of their high fighters for the semifinals and accepted 10-7 choices within the closing two fights to tighten the rating of what had been an absolute group domination all through.
Coach Jeff Mayweather’s Las Vegas Hustle received a third-star efficiency from light-weight Estevan Partida for his free-swinging 10-9 victory over Avery Sparrow to seize his group’s first victory in Spherical 11. The Hustle’s TCL Most Helpful Fighter and Most Entertaining Fighter Award double-nominee and heavyweight powerhouse Patrick Mailata misplaced his Spherical 8 showdown in opposition to fellow fan-favorite Joey Dawejko of Philly.
Burgeoning welterweight celebrity Darian Castro of Las Vegas dropped his Spherical 4 showdown in opposition to Philly’s Isaiah Johnson, however rebounded to win his rematch in opposition to Johnson in Spherical 19. The Spherical 19 match was later voted the Battle of the Evening.
Philly Smoke Steve Cunningham picked up the evening’s second star award for his Rounds 6 and 18 victories over fellow “son of boxing royalty” Sharif Rahman. Philly featherweight Shera Mae Patricio was named first star for her 10-9 victories over Jamie Mitchell in a sensational Spherical 2 brawl and Melissa Odessa Parker in Spherical 10.
“It feels superb simply to be out right here representing Philly,” stated Patricio. “We placed on a present, so we got here to eat and sweep, let’s go!!! We received champions. We warriors. We deliver it each time, so we’re going all the way in which!”
