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Trinidad Guardian
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Tears as Fernandez loses to Ramnarine
Kevin Sunich
Published: 2 Aug 2009
T&T’s Ria Ramnarine claimed a controversial split decision over Venezuela’s Ana Fernandez, and in the process walked away with the World Boxing Association (WBA) Interim and the World Boxing Council (WBC) Cabofe titles in their flyweight clash on Friday night. The bout took place at the Central Regional Indoor Sport Arena in Chaguanas. In the main event of the five-bout card, Ramnarine was adjudged the winner of the scheduled ten-round fight, much to the disbelief of the fans, many of whom had already started to exit the arena, after there was a seven-minute delay at the beginning of the final round.
Ramnarine received a head butt, which caused swelling to her right eye, and as a result she did not answer the bell for the final round, rather standing in her corner consulting with her trainer and manager Boxu Potts. Fernandez started the fight as the aggressor, and had Ramnarine backpeddling very early, as she landed a number of solid punches on the inside. The T&T champ started the second very positive, using her jab and momentarily keeping the visitor at bay. It was not for long, however, as she rebounded to close the round with a flurry. The Venezuelan thereafter got the better of the exchanges as Ramnarine tried to fight her style, which only resulted in the T&T fighter being bombarded with a barrage of body blows. The full house tried to rally Ramnarine, but this did not make much of a difference, as Fernandez continued to serve some telling body blows, which took the sting out of her opponent’s punches.
Ramnarine was rocked with a couple of hard left hooks in the eighth, but she managed to hang on to the end of the round. A split decision. She came out with a flurry in the ninth; however, she received a head butt, which caused a short delay, before the fight continued. By this time Ramnarine’s legs looked gone for all its worth, but she nevertheless continued, trying her best to represent the red, white and black. Then the drama unfolded; after a long wait to find out whether or not the fight would go the full ten rounds, Potts emerged from the corner, with one of Ramnarine’s glove in his hand, indicating that the bout was over. It was now time to go to the judges, since the fight had passed four rounds.
While almost all the people in the arena thought that it was a clear decision in favour of the Venezuelan, they were shocked when it was announced that Ramnarine had won the fight on a split decision, after winning 87, 85, and 87 on scorecards of judges George St Aude, Trevor Arno and Eion Jardine. The announcer did not give a score for the Venezuelan, who has dropped to four defeats, with ten wins, while Ramnarine has improved to 11 wins, with three defeats. The media were later told that St Aude scored it 87-86 and Jardine 87-85 in favour of Ramnarine, while Arno scored it 85-87 in favour of Fernandez. Even the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Gary Hunt, seemed to be surprised by the ruling, which will no doubt be a hot topic in the boxing community for a long time.
Fernandez in tears
Fernandez corner, upon hearing the decision, broke into rage, rushing at the officials, and had to be escorted out of the ring, with the diminutive Venezuelan in tears. What was startling was the fact that the same supporters who came to see Ramnarine make a step closer to a world title fight, turned to Fernandez, with some even opening verbal attacks on the referee Tommy Thomas, the table officials and Potts. It was a sour end to a night, where T&T’s late great multiple world champion and legend, Jizelle Salandy and manager Potts were honoured by the WBO with plaques, for their contribution to the sport.
In the main supporting bout Shawn Corbin claimed a technical knockout over Theo King in an all Guyanese light heavyweight contest, 2.59 seconds into the third round. Kevin Placid thawed with Ian Blue, until the sixth round when he unleashed a number of combinations, which left Blue dazed, before the referee intervened for his safety, 1.56 seconds into the round. Wendy Alleyne claimed a unanimous decision win over Guyana’s Mandessa Moses in their welterweight fight.
Trinidad Newsday
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Ramnarine wins controversial fight
By WALTER ALIBEY Sunday, August 2 2009
click on pic to zoom in« prev photo next photo »THERE was absolute outrage at the Central Regional Indoor Sports Complex in Chaguanas on Friday night after Trinidad and Tobago’s Ria Ramnarine took a beating from Venezuela’s Ana Fernandez in an Interim WBA World Title and WBC Cabofe Title contest, but was declared winner by a split decision.
The result sparked wild controversy as spectators openly expressed their displeasure after judges George St Aude and Ian Jardin scored the bout 87-86 and 87-85 respectively in favour of Ramnarine and Trevor Arneaud called the fight 87-85 in favour of Fernandez.
Ramnarine who struggled to cope with the aggression and persistence of her opponent was lifted in the air by handlers while a bewildered Fernandez had to be consoled with tears rolling down her cheeks. At the other end, ring officials had to restrain Fernandez’s manager who attempted to charge into referee Tommy Thomas following the result.
Ramnarine who had been convincingly beaten in the opening eight rounds was accidentally head butted in the ninth round.
Not even as the crowd chanted Ramnarine’s name to show their support for the country’s first female World Title holder, was she able to claim one of the scheduled ten rounds.
In fact the chants of the crowd appeared to have angered Fernandez who proceeded to bash Ramnarine with successive left and right punches. Ramnarine, battered and bruised after the ninth round, failed to respond to the bell to start the tenth and final round.
And as the crowd sat awaiting the announcement of what would have been an expected defeat for the hometown girl, medical personnel instead had to treat her for a swollen right eye, from which Ramnarine unable to see complained.
Later officials announced that the result had to be settled from the scorecards, a decision that still left Fernandez confident of the victory.
After the fight boxing pundits openly explained that once the ring doctor intervenes in a contest, it should have been declared a technical knockout by the referee in favour of Fernandez.
Thomas told Newsday, however, after that he had been advised by the ring doctor and therefore had to adhere to such instructions.
Ramnarine told reporters after the fight that she got a head-butt and had blurred vision. “When I consulted with my handlers they decided to stop the fight,” Ramnarine said.
Trinidad & Tobago Express
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guardian.co.tt/sports/other-sports/2009/08/02/tears-fernandez-loses-ramnarine
Tears as Fernandez loses to Ramnarine
Kevin Sunich
Published: 2 Aug 2009
T&T’s Ria Ramnarine claimed a controversial split decision over Venezuela’s Ana Fernandez, and in the process walked away with the World Boxing Association (WBA) Interim and the World Boxing Council (WBC) Cabofe titles in their flyweight clash on Friday night. The bout took place at the Central Regional Indoor Sport Arena in Chaguanas. In the main event of the five-bout card, Ramnarine was adjudged the winner of the scheduled ten-round fight, much to the disbelief of the fans, many of whom had already started to exit the arena, after there was a seven-minute delay at the beginning of the final round.
Ramnarine received a head butt, which caused swelling to her right eye, and as a result she did not answer the bell for the final round, rather standing in her corner consulting with her trainer and manager Boxu Potts. Fernandez started the fight as the aggressor, and had Ramnarine backpeddling very early, as she landed a number of solid punches on the inside. The T&T champ started the second very positive, using her jab and momentarily keeping the visitor at bay. It was not for long, however, as she rebounded to close the round with a flurry. The Venezuelan thereafter got the better of the exchanges as Ramnarine tried to fight her style, which only resulted in the T&T fighter being bombarded with a barrage of body blows. The full house tried to rally Ramnarine, but this did not make much of a difference, as Fernandez continued to serve some telling body blows, which took the sting out of her opponent’s punches.
Ramnarine was rocked with a couple of hard left hooks in the eighth, but she managed to hang on to the end of the round. A split decision. She came out with a flurry in the ninth; however, she received a head butt, which caused a short delay, before the fight continued. By this time Ramnarine’s legs looked gone for all its worth, but she nevertheless continued, trying her best to represent the red, white and black. Then the drama unfolded; after a long wait to find out whether or not the fight would go the full ten rounds, Potts emerged from the corner, with one of Ramnarine’s glove in his hand, indicating that the bout was over. It was now time to go to the judges, since the fight had passed four rounds.
While almost all the people in the arena thought that it was a clear decision in favour of the Venezuelan, they were shocked when it was announced that Ramnarine had won the fight on a split decision, after winning 87, 85, and 87 on scorecards of judges George St Aude, Trevor Arno and Eion Jardine. The announcer did not give a score for the Venezuelan, who has dropped to four defeats, with ten wins, while Ramnarine has improved to 11 wins, with three defeats. The media were later told that St Aude scored it 87-86 and Jardine 87-85 in favour of Ramnarine, while Arno scored it 85-87 in favour of Fernandez. Even the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Gary Hunt, seemed to be surprised by the ruling, which will no doubt be a hot topic in the boxing community for a long time.
Fernandez in tears
Fernandez corner, upon hearing the decision, broke into rage, rushing at the officials, and had to be escorted out of the ring, with the diminutive Venezuelan in tears. What was startling was the fact that the same supporters who came to see Ramnarine make a step closer to a world title fight, turned to Fernandez, with some even opening verbal attacks on the referee Tommy Thomas, the table officials and Potts. It was a sour end to a night, where T&T’s late great multiple world champion and legend, Jizelle Salandy and manager Potts were honoured by the WBO with plaques, for their contribution to the sport.
In the main supporting bout Shawn Corbin claimed a technical knockout over Theo King in an all Guyanese light heavyweight contest, 2.59 seconds into the third round. Kevin Placid thawed with Ian Blue, until the sixth round when he unleashed a number of combinations, which left Blue dazed, before the referee intervened for his safety, 1.56 seconds into the round. Wendy Alleyne claimed a unanimous decision win over Guyana’s Mandessa Moses in their welterweight fight.
Trinidad Newsday
www.newsday.co.tt/sport/0,104846.html
Ramnarine wins controversial fight
By WALTER ALIBEY Sunday, August 2 2009
click on pic to zoom in« prev photo next photo »THERE was absolute outrage at the Central Regional Indoor Sports Complex in Chaguanas on Friday night after Trinidad and Tobago’s Ria Ramnarine took a beating from Venezuela’s Ana Fernandez in an Interim WBA World Title and WBC Cabofe Title contest, but was declared winner by a split decision.
The result sparked wild controversy as spectators openly expressed their displeasure after judges George St Aude and Ian Jardin scored the bout 87-86 and 87-85 respectively in favour of Ramnarine and Trevor Arneaud called the fight 87-85 in favour of Fernandez.
Ramnarine who struggled to cope with the aggression and persistence of her opponent was lifted in the air by handlers while a bewildered Fernandez had to be consoled with tears rolling down her cheeks. At the other end, ring officials had to restrain Fernandez’s manager who attempted to charge into referee Tommy Thomas following the result.
Ramnarine who had been convincingly beaten in the opening eight rounds was accidentally head butted in the ninth round.
Not even as the crowd chanted Ramnarine’s name to show their support for the country’s first female World Title holder, was she able to claim one of the scheduled ten rounds.
In fact the chants of the crowd appeared to have angered Fernandez who proceeded to bash Ramnarine with successive left and right punches. Ramnarine, battered and bruised after the ninth round, failed to respond to the bell to start the tenth and final round.
And as the crowd sat awaiting the announcement of what would have been an expected defeat for the hometown girl, medical personnel instead had to treat her for a swollen right eye, from which Ramnarine unable to see complained.
Later officials announced that the result had to be settled from the scorecards, a decision that still left Fernandez confident of the victory.
After the fight boxing pundits openly explained that once the ring doctor intervenes in a contest, it should have been declared a technical knockout by the referee in favour of Fernandez.
Thomas told Newsday, however, after that he had been advised by the ring doctor and therefore had to adhere to such instructions.
Ramnarine told reporters after the fight that she got a head-butt and had blurred vision. “When I consulted with my handlers they decided to stop the fight,” Ramnarine said.
Trinidad & Tobago Express
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