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Post by Dee Williams on Mar 25, 2006 12:36:03 GMT -5
On the same Friday night card in Edmonton, Alberta as Jelena Mrdjenovich's demolition of Donna Biggers, Keri Scarr easily (40-36 x 3) defeated Edmonton's Amy Lynn Johnson in a junior welterweight four-rounder. Keri Scarr is perhaps better known as Keri "Crusher" Crothers, a former Canadian amateur kickboxing champ fighting out of Peterec's Gym in Victoria, British Columbia. She went 8-2 against some of the best in the amateur kickboxing world, and also has international K-1 and Muay Thai experience. This was Scarr's first venture into a pro boxing ring, in a fight that she described as 'way easier" than she expected. Amy Johnson achieved notoriety with a controversially refereed fight with Tonya Harding in 2004 in which Johnson may have been saved by the referee's delay after a knockdown in the second round, but then brawled her way back to a TKO over Harding in the third. (See www.womenboxing.com/news081104resultsofhardingpoll%20.htm)Scarr's successful debut as a pro boxer could heat things up some more North of the border in 2006. |
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Post by Ryan Wissow on Mar 25, 2006 17:27:29 GMT -5
this was a very impressive pro boxing debut for Scabb (Crothers).
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Post by Allan Garside on Mar 25, 2006 20:38:06 GMT -5
Oh oh, another martial arts girl switching over to boxing. Dan Will be ticked.
I saw Crothers fight in Naniamo B C. She was awsome. Quick, dtermaned. she out classed her opponednt in fighting skills. thats why when she tapped out it was almost a shock. I forget who the opopnent was, but she took eveything Crothers threw at her and concentrated on getting hold of her and getting her to the ground. Crothers totaly dominated the stand up fighting but when the other girl got her to the ground stand up skills ment nothing. I don't know if this was muay thai or not probaly not, if the fight was broke up when it went to the ground the other girl wouldn't stand a chance. Crothers will go far if fiven the chance.
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Post by TD on Mar 26, 2006 1:25:11 GMT -5
The Crusher is a promoters dream; she's always in top shape, she throws non-stop, she'll fight anybody-anytime and she's pretty darn easy to look at!
Way to go Keri! I hope you fight often!
TD
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Post by jr on Mar 27, 2006 22:15:00 GMT -5
Oh oh, another martial arts girl switching over to boxing. Dan Will be ticked. I saw Crothers fight in Naniamo B C. She was awsome. Quick, dtermaned. she out classed her opponednt in fighting skills. thats why when she tapped out it was almost a shock. I forget who the opopnent was, but she took eveything Crothers threw at her and concentrated on getting hold of her and getting her to the ground. Crothers totaly dominated the stand up fighting but when the other girl got her to the ground stand up skills ment nothing. I don't know if this was muay thai or not probaly not, if the fight was broke up when it went to the ground the other girl wouldn't stand a chance. Crothers will go far if fiven the chance. Crothers has a sordid history prior to boxing. In January 2004, Crothers fought newcomer Adrienna Jenkins in a mixed martial arts bout. Crothers soccer-kicked Jenkins while on the ground and dropped a knee to her face, both illegal strikes. Jenkins' right orbital was fractured by the soccer kick. Crothers was disqualified. Crothers was universally criticized for this fight which led to the end of her MMA career. |
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Post by Dee Williams on Mar 29, 2006 0:32:37 GMT -5
Crothers has a sordid history prior to boxing. In January 2004, Crothers fought newcomer Adrienna Jenkins in a mixed martial arts bout. Crothers soccer-kicked Jenkins while on the ground and dropped a knee to her face, both illegal strikes. Jenkins' right orbital was fractured by the soccer kick. Crothers was disqualified. Crothers was universally criticized for this fight which led to the end of her MMA career. It said: For most fighters their MMA debut is a very quiet affair. More often than not they are usually scheduled to open a show early in the evening without much hoopla or fanfare, and if they do get a later slot it is usually to be a sacrificial lamb to a more well known fighter.
The above cases were not so for Keri Crothers, a former undefeated Canadian Amateur Kickboxing Champion and a veteran of 11 professional kickboxing and Muay Thai bouts, who made her MMA debut this past January 16th in the WEC. During the fight Crothers received a controversial DQ for kneeing her opponent, Adrienna Jenkins, while Jenkins was down on the mat, a strict rule violation in the WEC. MMA Weekly’s Mick Hammond contacted Crothers and got her side of the story.
MMA Weekly: Going into the fight you had gotten a pretty good amount of exposure and attention for a fighter making their MMA debut. You were placed on nearly all the promotional material for the WEC and your fight took place after fights such as the WEC Middleweight Championship fight, and fights involving such known fighters as Tiki Ghosn, Yves Edwards, and Olaf Alfonso. Were you feeling any additional pressure to perform under the hype and expectation of your debut?
Keri Crothers: No, not necessarily. It wasn’t like any other fight though that’s for sure.
MMA Weekly: WEC rules follow a standard set for most American MMA promotions by the NSAC. Were you aware of those rules prior during training and prior to the match-up?
Keri Crothers: We were training by the rules given to us by the WEC. We had the rules basically since the fight was scheduled.
MMA Weekly: So you were aware then that striking to a downed opponent with a kick or knee was illegal?
Keri Crothers: Yes, definitely, it wasn’t the intention in any way for the knee to end up on her face. I was trying to escape the armbar attempt by kneeling and putting my knee on her belly and it went way too fast.
MMA Weekly: Okay so take us through the fight and tell us what happened which led up to the first foul of the evening when you kicked Jenkins when she was down on the ground.
Keri Crothers: Well I think I had pretty much been dominating the fight. I don’t think that she was ready being able to take punches. I mean she definitely knew the ground stuff, but I don’t she was very good on her feet. I think she basically knew that when we started to exchange. I think that the first foul I had gotten was after she had taken me to the ground. I’m not even sure how we really got there, but I think it was off of the cage, she just dropped down on her back just to try to get me on the ground right away. As soon as she got to the ground and I got up I just automatically kicked to get out and didn’t realized that I was kicking her to the face.
MMA Weekly: So the first kick to the face was not intentional?
Keri Crothers: Definitely not, no not at all.
MMA Weekly: Was that more a case of training and how you were taught to get out of a situation like that?
Keri Crothers: Yeah, definitely, to escape from and throw something right away when you come out.
MMA Weekly: Alright now take us into the attempted armbar which eventually lead to you getting disqualified for the knee to Adrienna’s head.
Keri Crothers: With the armbar attempt she had taken me to the ground by my hair and when we were down there she started getting the armbar and I knew to get up over her and shake her off. Which of course was like me slamming her on her neck and when that wasn’t loosening the only other way I knew to go was to twist out of it. So when I twisted inward I twisted too fast and with no control and my knee went into her face. It was definitely unintentional and not planned at all to knee her in the face. I mean just by the pictures itself you can pretty much see that I’m trying to escape it. I’m not trying to knee her in the face at all. With my trainers and stuff they are like 200lbs and a lot stronger obviously than AJ was and I know I use a lot of force with them to get out if. I had only briefly gone over that escape once actually and I knew I had to apply a lot of force to get out of it.
MMA Weekly: So you were using a technique that you were not overly familiar with?
Keri Crothers: Exactly, I had only ever done it once.
MMA Weekly: It was obvious that you had thought you won the fight after it was stopped. You were jumping up and down celebrating, tell us about after the fight.
Keri Crothers: Well I thought I won, I didn’t even realize that I had kneed her to put her out. I thought she was out from the punches in the first place. When I had rolled her up onto her neck and I was jumping up and down to loosen it, that itself she couldn’t even take. As soon as I had dropped down the ref was in there and so I didn’t know what was going on, I wasn’t sure like what had honestly really happened. I had thought I had just won I was obviously like “whoohoo, I won,” and then I had immediately went over to see if she was okay. In between that though I had been told I had been disqualified.
MMA Weekly: Did WEC officials speak to you afterwards about the fight?
Keri Crothers: They just said for me to learn from it and take it as it comes.
MMA Weekly: Have you spoken with Adrienna at all to tell her that what had happened was unintentional or if not would you like to say anything now to her?
Keri Crothers: No I haven’t spoken with her, I don’t have a way to contact her. I thought though she was an absolute doll. She’s like a total sweetheart and I really like her. We were talking the whole day before the fight and the whole day leading up to the fight. We were being very honest with each other that we were both nervous and scared and we weren’t too sure what to expect. And again nothing was intentional, it was just me reacting and me trying to get out of every position I was put into.Reading this makes me realize why I like boxing so much more than MMA ... BTW note this was also Crothers' MMA debut, which JR did not mention, and she did fight that style one more time (lost to Ginelle Martinez on a keylock, so it's not surprising that she prefers to fight on her feet now) ... Dee |
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Post by TD on Mar 29, 2006 15:27:18 GMT -5
Keri DQ happened out of inexperience and emotion. Hairpulling aside, which ticked her off, she reacted instinctually and admittedly, wrong.
She just wants to fight, standing or MMA. So happens that boxing is a better payday. Boxing will make her better KB or MMA fighter.
TD
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Post by jr on Apr 1, 2006 9:06:51 GMT -5
===MMA Weekly: So the first kick to the face was not intentional?
Keri Crothers: Definitely not, no not at all.
MMA Weekly: Was that more a case of training and how you were taught to get out of a situation like that?
Keri Crothers: Yeah, definitely, to escape from and throw something right away when you come out.===
malarky.udel.edu/~keith/2004/oldnews04.htm
The photos show Jenkins sitting when Crothers kicks her in the face. This fractured her orbital.
Jenkins lost her next fight due to impaired vision in the damaged eye.
"Not intentional?" You decide.
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