Lateef Kayode remained undefeated and in the process scored his fourteenth straight knockout when he stopped Ed Perry in round six of their scheduled ten round Cruiserweight fight at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, CA.
Kayode dominted the action with few exception when Perry would move his hands and get in a few shots.
Kayode dropped Perry in round four when he landed a left and right to the body that dropped Perry to his knees. Kayode finished the fight in round six when he landed a hard three punch combination that sent Perry to the canvas for referee Jack Reiss’ ten count at fifty-one seconds of round six.
Kayode of Lagos, Nigeria is now 15-0 with fourteen knockouts. Perry, 198 3/4 lbs of Frankfort, IN is now 17-5-2
“It was a good fight for me,” said Kayode, 27, who is trained by Freddie Roach and was fighting at cruiserweight for the fifth time in his career. “I waited a round or two to gauge what he had. He took some shots. Normally guys would have fallen after some of those shots but he had a good chin and stayed in there.”
“The body shots took their toll,” said Perry, who had never seen the canvas in his career but took a knee after a lethal combination by Kayode in the fourth round before standing at an eight-count. “I don’t know, I’ve always been pretty tough. It takes a brave man to stand in there and get hit like that, especially on national TV.”
Added Kayode: “He tried to rush me and rough me in the fifth round. He came at me, so I didn’t go with my jab anymore. I went with my straight right because he was bending to my right side and then I got him with the left uppercut.”
In a battle of decorated amateur stars, former Cuban Olympian Luis Franco defeated former American Olympic alternate Eric Hunter via an eighth round disqulaification for excessive low blows.
Franco dominated the fight as he came forward and landed the harder shots that backed Hunter up. In round two, Hunter was getting rocked by the flurry of punches. It was later in that round where Hunter was deducted a point for the second shot below the belt. In round three, Hunter was once again staggered on the ropes. Hunter still tried to work the body and landed some nice shots despite being one low shot away from being tossed from the fight. Franco continued to land nice cominations.
In round eight, Franco was deducted a point for a headbutt. Just a moment later, Hunter landed a hard right to the cup area and referee Jon Schorle stopped the bout at 2:34 of round eight.
Franco, 125 1/2 lbs of Havana, Cuba is now 8-0. Hunter, 125 1/2 lbs of Philadelphia, PA is now 15-2.
“It looks like he was looking for a way out,” said Franco, who won every round in the dominating win. “My body shots were just hurting him and he didn’t want to get knocked out. He knew he was going to get knocked out in the ninth round and so he decided to take the disqualification. I out-jabbed him and out worked him and finally got the DQ.”
Hunter, 24, who first appeared on ShoBox back in 2007 and was a 2004 U.S. Olympic alternate, was visibly upset after the disqualification. “There was just too much complaining going on the whole time,” he said. “I said before the fight they better watch out for his complaining. Ah, man. I don’t even want to talk about it. He played to the crowd and the ref. It should have never been stopped.”
Detroit Metro Airport to Add 1,000 Parking Spaces.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 23, 2000 | Fricker, Daniel G.
May 24–Detroit Metro Airport will hurriedly build a 1,000-space parking lot on the airport’s east side that should be ready for anxious fliers by Labor Day.
The goal of the $1.5-million project is to ease the worsening parking shortage at North America’s eighth busiest airport, officials said Tuesday. go to web site detroit metro airport
But the new spaces won’t offset the 1,300 parking spots Metro travelers will lose in the Green Lot by summer’s end.
The spaces will be permanently lost when a major road connecting the airport’s existing terminals to the new midfield terminal is built through a portion of the lot.
Besides the new lot, newly installed Wayne County Airports Director Lester Robinson said he is looking for property to create 500 more parking spaces.
The promise of up to 1,500 new spaces represents an increase from prior plans. Earlier this month, Metro spokesman Mike Conway said the airport planned to add 600 spaces by year’s end.
But Robinson and county Executive Ed McNamara acknowledged that they were offering a short-term fix for the county-owned and -operated airport.
“We’re going to continue to have problems,” Robinson said at a news conference at the airport. “The best solution to those problems basically will be the midfield, whose parking deck is under construction.” The midfield passenger terminal will have an 11,500-space parking garage. The $1.2-billion project, with 99 jet and commuter plane gates, is scheduled to open in December 2001.
The new lot announced Tuesday will be built on a grassy field, next to the Northwest Airlines hangar with a Boeing 747 painted on its side.
Dubbed Green Lot No. 2, it will be a long-term, economy lot charging $7 per day. The lot will offer shelters and free shuttle van service to the airport’s three terminals.
The announcement came less than two weeks after the Free Press detailed Metro’s worsening parking problems.
Metro has been forced to close its parking garage and eight lots about a dozen times since Jan. 1 because the 12,578 spaces were filled, airport officials said.
Travelers have scrambled to find parking in the private lots along Merriman Road. Some have abandoned cars and trucks in the lots of nearby hotels and restaurants, owners of those properties said.
Some travelers reported barely making flights or missing flights because they had trouble finding a place to park.
On Tuesday afternoon, Metro’s parking crunch was evident. The 30-foot-high electronic sign at the airport’s entrance warned that the parking garage and most lots were closed.
Only the Red Lot No. 2 was open, and a line of a dozen cars and trucks stretched outside its entrance gate. in our site detroit metro airport
Gary Rogner, 50, of Pinconning was waiting to get into the lot when he was told of plans for the new lot. “They need it,” Rogner said.
Lane Jin, 34, of Westland also welcomed news of the new lot.
“I got a problem,” he said. “I can never find a parking space at the airport.” Metro’s officials blamed the parking shortage on the airport’s success. The number of travelers increased last year by 7.9 percent to 34 million. The forecast had been for a 3- to 4-percent increase, McNamara said.
The airport will ask three or four paving contractors to bid on the construction of the new lot, Robinson said.
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