Results:
Emerald Queen Casino
Tacoma, WA
Saturday, Jan. 6, 01
Promoter: Brian Halquist
Matchmaker: Bob Oleson
Our stringer in Tacoma for the Saturday night club
show was Richard Baker, the photographer, writer, and
editor of the regional boxing paper, Northwest
Prospects. Baker was on the spot and, shortly after
Joel Casamayor’s ninth round stoppage of Garcia on
Showtime TV had been re-hashed for the third or fourth
time, my phone rang in Portland. It was Baker calling
in from what sounded like a cheerful post-fight party
in a noisey bar. He said the Tacoma show had surprised
him by being pretty good. It was more than sold out,
of course, and the casino had to set up an extra three
hundred folding chairs or so for the walk-up crowd.
Even the chairs at the ring apron were sold, so
photographers such as Baker were left to wiggle
between ticket-holding elbows to do their work. Baker
kindly provides us with the following results:
(records are those announced before each bout)
The ten round main event featured Kent,
Washington’s Tim Shocks (159 lbs) 20-9-1, in a bid for
the vacant Canadian-American-Mexican super
middleweight title. His opponent was the portable,
durable Eric Holland (159lbs ) 22-29-3, of Alamagordo,
New Mexico. Rumors had been circulating that Shocks
was short on stamina in training so Holland might have
a prayer, but the pair went the distance in a close
tangle with Shocks taking the unanimous decision.
On the Undercard:
In a cruiserweight four, Michael Sams (183 lbs) of
Colfax, WA debuted with a unanimous decision win over
Shayne Stoddard,(183 lbs) 1-2, of Boise, ID.
A recent Greg Haugen student,Eduardo Mendivil (148
lbs)4-1-3 of Hemmet, California stopped Robert
Mansfield (147 lbs)2-1,of Port Orchard,WA with a TKO
at 1:49 of the fourth and final round.
A lightweight women’s four round re-match ended the
same way as their first meeting. Jessica LaPointe,
(139 lbs) 1-0 of Spanaway, WA. won a unanimous
decision over Jamie Day, (0-4)of Brigham, Utah.
Also; Heavyweight Cody Gray (217 1/2 lbs) 4-0, of
Shoreline, WA stopped Charles Boettcher (201 lbs)2-4,
of Sioux City, Iowa. Boettcher did not come out for
the fourth round. Gray’s win is called a TKO in the
4th.
In a middleweight re-match scheduled for 6,
Brock Stodden (165 lbs)8-6-1, of Bremerton,WA stopped
durable Scott Lansdon of Baker City, OR. abruptly with
a KO at 5 seconds of the third round. Lansdon won the
pairs’ last encounter.
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