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Trinidad Express
Perrozzi on a 'split'
By Ian Prescott Ian.prescott@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Dec 31, 2011 at 11:50 PM ECT
www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Perrozzi_on_a__split__-136491508.html
Lorissa Rivas is not the quality boxer she is being made out to be.
The Las Vegas-born fighter with Trinidad and Tobago roots lost her bid to land the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight world title after suffering a split-decision defeat to Bermudan Teresa Perrozzi on Friday night at the Woodbrook Youth Facility.
The fight was also an elimination bout for a shot at Tori Nelson's World Boxing Council (WBC) title.
The WBA judges—American Carlos Alberto Sucre and Venezuelan Rina Urbaze Availa—both had Perrozzi winning 97-94 and 96-95, respectively, while WBC Guyanese judge Andrew Thorne saw Rivas ahead 96-94.
In losing, Rivas gave a third consecutive lacklustre performance, which included her WBC title defeat to Nelson in July and an earlier win over a very poor Guyanese fighter, Pauline London.
Rivas now has four victories against mediocre fighters and three defeats to moderate opponents.
Not that either fighter showed world-class quality on Friday night, but Perrozzi at least had a little more craft than Rivas, whose best weapon was an ineffective jab.
The fight did more to expose the lack of quality in women's boxing, especially at the higher weight divisions.
Generally, the fight was not action packed and full of clinches. Still, Perrozzi had the far better moments and landed a barrage of punches on Rivas in the first, sixth and seventh rounds of the ten-round contest.
Rivas saw herself winning the fight and accused her opponent of throwing wild punches, while the ten years older Perrozzi celebrates her 39th birthday today with a world title, which she said was won after years of hard training.
Earlier on, the sheen surrounding 17-year-old USA-born T&T Olympic hopeful Lawrence Singh also faded a bit.
Making his debut before local fans, Singh was billed as an upcoming superstar, but showed little against exciting Guyanese light-flyweight Imran "Magic" Khan, who beat him over three rounds.
Singh began quickly but by the end of the first round Khan found his range and went on to dominate the fight. Singh was barely holding out at the end.
Although he has ability and youth on his side, Singh is definitely not Olympic quality at this stage.
And promoter Jason Frazer of Tobago Dark Warriors has to be commended for finally finding an opponent to give Kertson Manswell a battle.
For the first time on local soil, Tobago heavyweight Manswell (23-3) had a fight on his hands but escaped with a close but unanimous 80-78, 78-74, 78-77 points decision over Guyanese boxer and bodybuilder Mitchell "Strongman" Rogers (6-4).
Six years ago, Manswell knocked out Rogers in one round. Now 31 years old and a powerfully-built body-building champion in Guyana, Rogers came to fight and had Manswell hurt and on wobbling legs in the first round.
Manswell also hurt Rogers in both the fifth and eighth rounds, but generally won the fight by landing a few more jabs.
Having hurt each other, both men were cautious throughout the fight.
Afterwards, Rogers made a lap of honour and was given an appreciative ovation for his brave performance.
There were also explosive technical knockout victories for promising Trinidad and Tobago welterweight Kevon Diaz and local lightweight Prince Lee Isidore over Guyanese fighters, Ian Blue and Shawn Pile, respectively.
Unbeaten Diaz took his record to 4-0 after knocking down Blue twice before the referee stopped the contest one minute 58 seconds into the first round. Blue has lost all nine of his fights.
Isidore also put Pile on the canvas three times before the referee ended the contest 55 seconds into the second round to save the Guyanese from a further beating.
The last fight of the night saw Pan Am amateur bronze medallist Jamilla Jones taking her professional record to 2-0 after beating late substitute Adana Francis for the second time in a month.
Tobago Dark Warriors card:
Friday December 30—Woodbrook Youth Facility
WBA middleweight world title
WBC silver elimination fight
Teresa Perrozzi (BERMUDA/USA) (8-4-1) bt Lorissa Rivas (T&T/USA) (4-3-0)
Non-title fights
Heavyweight—Kertson Manswell (T&T) (23-3) bt Mitchell Rogers (Guy) (6-4)
Lightweight—Prince-Lee Isidore (T&T) (4-1-1) vs Shawn Pile (Guy) (8-5)
Welterweight—Kevon Diaz (T&T) (4-0) bt Ian Blue (Guy) (0-9)
Bantamweight—Jamilla Jones (T&T) (2-0) vs Adana Francis (T&T) (2-8)
Amateurs
Light flyweight (108 lbs)—Amir Khan (Guyana) bt Lawrence Singh (USA/T&T)
Anthony Debedeen (Phoenix) bt Ryan Rampersad (Sand City)
Deon Charles bt Gordon Prince
Perrozzi on a 'split'
By Ian Prescott Ian.prescott@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Dec 31, 2011 at 11:50 PM ECT
www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Perrozzi_on_a__split__-136491508.html
Lorissa Rivas is not the quality boxer she is being made out to be.
The Las Vegas-born fighter with Trinidad and Tobago roots lost her bid to land the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight world title after suffering a split-decision defeat to Bermudan Teresa Perrozzi on Friday night at the Woodbrook Youth Facility.
The fight was also an elimination bout for a shot at Tori Nelson's World Boxing Council (WBC) title.
The WBA judges—American Carlos Alberto Sucre and Venezuelan Rina Urbaze Availa—both had Perrozzi winning 97-94 and 96-95, respectively, while WBC Guyanese judge Andrew Thorne saw Rivas ahead 96-94.
In losing, Rivas gave a third consecutive lacklustre performance, which included her WBC title defeat to Nelson in July and an earlier win over a very poor Guyanese fighter, Pauline London.
Rivas now has four victories against mediocre fighters and three defeats to moderate opponents.
Not that either fighter showed world-class quality on Friday night, but Perrozzi at least had a little more craft than Rivas, whose best weapon was an ineffective jab.
The fight did more to expose the lack of quality in women's boxing, especially at the higher weight divisions.
Generally, the fight was not action packed and full of clinches. Still, Perrozzi had the far better moments and landed a barrage of punches on Rivas in the first, sixth and seventh rounds of the ten-round contest.
Rivas saw herself winning the fight and accused her opponent of throwing wild punches, while the ten years older Perrozzi celebrates her 39th birthday today with a world title, which she said was won after years of hard training.
Earlier on, the sheen surrounding 17-year-old USA-born T&T Olympic hopeful Lawrence Singh also faded a bit.
Making his debut before local fans, Singh was billed as an upcoming superstar, but showed little against exciting Guyanese light-flyweight Imran "Magic" Khan, who beat him over three rounds.
Singh began quickly but by the end of the first round Khan found his range and went on to dominate the fight. Singh was barely holding out at the end.
Although he has ability and youth on his side, Singh is definitely not Olympic quality at this stage.
And promoter Jason Frazer of Tobago Dark Warriors has to be commended for finally finding an opponent to give Kertson Manswell a battle.
For the first time on local soil, Tobago heavyweight Manswell (23-3) had a fight on his hands but escaped with a close but unanimous 80-78, 78-74, 78-77 points decision over Guyanese boxer and bodybuilder Mitchell "Strongman" Rogers (6-4).
Six years ago, Manswell knocked out Rogers in one round. Now 31 years old and a powerfully-built body-building champion in Guyana, Rogers came to fight and had Manswell hurt and on wobbling legs in the first round.
Manswell also hurt Rogers in both the fifth and eighth rounds, but generally won the fight by landing a few more jabs.
Having hurt each other, both men were cautious throughout the fight.
Afterwards, Rogers made a lap of honour and was given an appreciative ovation for his brave performance.
There were also explosive technical knockout victories for promising Trinidad and Tobago welterweight Kevon Diaz and local lightweight Prince Lee Isidore over Guyanese fighters, Ian Blue and Shawn Pile, respectively.
Unbeaten Diaz took his record to 4-0 after knocking down Blue twice before the referee stopped the contest one minute 58 seconds into the first round. Blue has lost all nine of his fights.
Isidore also put Pile on the canvas three times before the referee ended the contest 55 seconds into the second round to save the Guyanese from a further beating.
The last fight of the night saw Pan Am amateur bronze medallist Jamilla Jones taking her professional record to 2-0 after beating late substitute Adana Francis for the second time in a month.
Tobago Dark Warriors card:
Friday December 30—Woodbrook Youth Facility
WBA middleweight world title
WBC silver elimination fight
Teresa Perrozzi (BERMUDA/USA) (8-4-1) bt Lorissa Rivas (T&T/USA) (4-3-0)
Non-title fights
Heavyweight—Kertson Manswell (T&T) (23-3) bt Mitchell Rogers (Guy) (6-4)
Lightweight—Prince-Lee Isidore (T&T) (4-1-1) vs Shawn Pile (Guy) (8-5)
Welterweight—Kevon Diaz (T&T) (4-0) bt Ian Blue (Guy) (0-9)
Bantamweight—Jamilla Jones (T&T) (2-0) vs Adana Francis (T&T) (2-8)
Amateurs
Light flyweight (108 lbs)—Amir Khan (Guyana) bt Lawrence Singh (USA/T&T)
Anthony Debedeen (Phoenix) bt Ryan Rampersad (Sand City)
Deon Charles bt Gordon Prince