Unbeaten Austin Brooks (12-0-1, 5 KOs) efficiently defended his World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) Continental USA tremendous featherweight title final night time, albeit by the use of an unpopular 10-round cut up draw with harmful Aram “Warrior” Avagyan (11-1-3, 5 KOs).
The battle passed off in the principle occasion on the entertaining “EQC Battle Evening” card, offered by Toro Promotions, Inc., in affiliation with Whitfield Haydon Boxing, on the famed Emerald Queen On line casino (EQC) in Tacoma, Washington.
Preventing out of San Diego, the 28-year-old Brooks wanted a powerful rally within the remaining two rounds of an exciting throw-back battle in opposition to Avagyan, the 2016 Armenian Olympian, to retain his WBA Continental USA crown in entrance of a standing solely crowd.
Aram relentlessly pressured Brooks from the beginning and it appeared the battle was getting away from the defending champion. Each fighters had their moments by way of the primary action-packed eight rounds, however Aram’s exceptionally excessive work price appeared to have him on his approach to victory. Brooks, although, to his credit score picked his spots and took the final two crucial rounds for the hard-earned draw.
Toro Promotions’ rising steady of huge, proficient heavyweights, together with Dante Stone (16-1, 11 KOs) and Alexander “The Nice” Flores (19-4-1, 17 KOs), was on show final night time as Kingsley “The Black Lion” Ibeh and Tsotne Rogava (9-0, 7 KOs) had been each in motion.
Ibeh(13-2-1, 10 KOs), who’s a local of Nigeria now residing in Phoenix, is a cousin of the retired, notorious heavyweight boxer Ike Ibeabuchi. Ibeh, who performed school soccer at Washburn College, in addition to professionally within the Canadian Soccer League, utterly dominated former Texas champion Juan Torres (11-7-1. 4 KOs).
The 6’ 4”, 300-pound Ibeh was just too large and robust for Torres, who was floored 4 occasions enroute to a second-round knockout for Ibeh.
Tsotne, a quick riser with large upside, confirmed that he’s a great boxer along with having deadly energy, going the whole distance for the scone time in a row. The 2020 Ukraine Olympian used his 6’ 5”, 270-pounder body and misleading quickness to dominate battle-tested Jon Bolden (10-14-1, 7 KOs) within the eight-round Particular Heavyweight Attraction.
The Georgia-born Rogava, who now resides in Marina del Rey (CA), and is skilled by Corridor of Famer Joe Goossen, dropped Bolden within the second and fifth rounds in a close to shutout resolution, profitable all eight rounds on two of the judges’ scorecards, seven on the opposite, in a match considerably marred by Bolden’s fixed clinching in a survival mode.
Undefeated Nicaraguan tremendous featherweight prospect Nilo Guerrero (9-0, 7 KO), a 2016 Nicaragua Youth Nationwide Champion who lives in Coachella (CA), prolonged his spectacular win streak to 9, taking a dominate six-round unanimous resolution in opposition to veteran Diuhi “Elegante” Olguin (16-38-7, 10 KOs). The 23-year-old Guerrero, 23, as soon as once more skillfully used his irregular 6’ 1” peak and size for a brilliant featherweight to his benefit.
Additionally combating on the undercard in four-rounders had been Hoquiam (WA) tremendous welterweight Nathan “Superman” Stolen (2-0, 1 KO), who gained a four-round cut up resolution over Julio Munoz, Jr. (0-1-1), in an all-out slugfest during which the 2 fighters fought like Rockem Sockem robots, whereas Auburn (WA) light-weight Agustin Tovar (1-0) defeated professional debuting Miquel Gonzales (0-1) in a spirited encounter that featured a excessive quantity of punches with Tovar clearly touchdown the crisper pictures.
