New York, NY (6/14/12) – Earlier tonight before a near capacity crowd at the Roseland Ballroom, DiBella Entertainment presented the latest installment of the Broadway Boxing series.
In the main event bout of the evening, before his army of fans, Long Island’s favorite son “Irish” Seanie Monaghan improved his record to a perfect 14-0, 9KO’s, winning the WBC Continental Americas Light Heavyweight title in the process with an eighth-round TKO over Romero Johnson.
The crowd went into an uproar as soon as the bagpipes sounded to signal Monaghan’s walk into the ring, and they didn’t let up for the entire contest. Monaghan jumped on Johnson from the opening bell, scoring with hard combinations to both the body and head. Johnson showed that he came to fight though, choosing to stand toe-to-toe with the heavy-handed Monaghan.
Monaghan, who is known for his aggressive nonstop action style, switched things midway through the fight, showing another dimension to his arsenal by boxing nicely from the outside behind a stiff jab.
Just when it looked as though Monaghan would cruise to an easy unanimous decision, a huge right hand rocked Johnson badly. Sensing his opponent was in trouble, Monaghan went in for the kill, jumping all over Johnson, landing heavy shots with both hands. Johnson showed a granite chin, refusing to go to the canvas, but there was just no stop in Monaghan as he continued to let his hands go.
With their fighter taking heavy punishment, Johnson’s corner summoned the ringside physician to call a halt to the contest. Official time of the stoppage was 2:30 of round number eight.
Super Prospect Thomas Dulorme remained perfect as he battered by scoring a stoppage after round seven of a scheduled ten round Welterweight bout over Alberto Herrera.
Dulorme was at least a few classes better then Herrera in every aspect and the fight was stopped on the advice of the ringside doctor in between round’s seven and out.
Dulorme, 146 lbs of Carolina, Puerto Rico and is now 15-0 with twelve knockouts. Herrera, 144 1/2 lbs of Riverside, CA is now 8-7-1.
Will Rosinsky was methodical in scoring an easy eight round unanimous decision over Aaron PryorJr. in a Super Middleweight bout.
Rosinsky boxed well and landed some solid right hands on the tall son of the Legend who was never able to mount any offense.
Rosinsky, 168 lbs of Ozone Park, NY won by scores of 79-73, 79-73 and 78-74 and is now 16-1. Pryor,168 lbs of Cincinnati, OH is 16-6
In what was a bloody contest, Gabriel Bracero was able to withstand the fists and head of Jermaine White to win a eight round unanimous decision in a Jr. Welterweight clash
The hadbutts started out from the first roundon as Bracero began to bleed from above his right eye from a clash of heads just moments into the bout. In between bouts with White’s head, Bracero was able to land hard shots as he featured some solid counter right hands over the first four rounds.
Bracero received six visits from the ringside physician and it with each appearance it seemed that the doctor gave Bracero a longer look as the blood continued to stream from under the left eye.
White was finally deducted a point in round four for the repeated headbutts.
Bracero was being cheered from ringside from not only he throngs of supporters but the only man to put a loss on his resume in DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley.
White was rugged and tried to press the action down the stretch but it was Bracero’s boxing ability that settled the sometimes sloppy fight down and come home with the victory
Bracero, 141 lbs of Brooklyn, NY won by scores of 80-71, 79-72 and 77-74 and is now 19-1. White, 141 lbs of Las Vegas is 17-5.
Sonya Lomanakis and Tiffany Woodward battled to an entertaining six round draw in a female Heavyweight bout in what the third bout between the two ladies.
Lomanakis had success early with the left hook. Woodward started to come on in round four as she drove Lomanakis back with a flurry. The fifth and six saw toe to warfare with each getting in good shots that thrilled the fans at the Roseland Ballroom.
Each won a card at 58-56 with a third card read 57-57.
Lomanakis, 234 lbs of New York is 6-0-2. Woodward, 198 lbs of Wilson, NC is now 4-6-3
Floriano Pagliara scored a six round unanimous decision over Rynell Griffin in a Jr. Lightweight bout.
Griffin came out firing straight lefts from the southpaw stance. Pagliara got going at the end of the round and landed a nice combination. Pagliara continued to put his punches together until he really opened up in round five here his shots bloodied the nose of Griffin. In round six, Pagliara trapped Griffin in the corner and landed a big combination that had referee Harvey Dock standing close for a possible stoppage. Griffin survived that and even tried a late rally but it was too little as Pagliara got the decision by scores of 59-55 on all cards.
Pagliara, 132 lbs of Brooklyn via Italy is now 13-4-1. Griffin, 132 lbs of Las Vegas is 6-102.
Ivan Redkach destroyed Dedrick Bell in round one of their scheduled six round Jr. Welterweight bout.
Redkach dropped bell from a flurry in the corner then dropped him a second time with a crunching left hand and referee Steve Willis stopped the bout at 1:55 of round one.
Redkach, 140 lbs of Los Angeles is now 11-0 with ten knockouts. Bell 137 lbs of Memphis is now 7-15.
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