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Montreal's Lontchi retains title on Rumble at Rama V undercard |
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Written by Shi Davidi, THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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RAMA, Ont. - Olivier Lontchi of Montreal retained his NABA super bantamweight title with a draw against Mexico's Eduardo Garcia on the undercard of Rumble at Rama V on Friday night.
The slow bout left the crowd booing both boxers, who were tentative throughout the 10 rounds. The fight was scored 95-94 on one card for Lontchi (16-0-2, six knockouts), 95-94 on another for Garcia (18-5-1, seven knockouts) and 95-95 on the third.
Lontchi took issue with the judges' decision.
"I won the fight," said Lontchi. "Honestly, I boxed like I wanted to box. I wanted to be in control, I wanted to move whenever I wanted to move, not because I wanted to. Maybe the judges didn't see the same thing I was doing."
Garcia knocked Lontchi down in the first round and had him pinned against the ropes in each of the next three rounds. One flurry near the end of the fourth nearly knocked Lontchi down again.
The booing started in the sixth round and continued into the seventh before Lontchi had his best round in the eighth, staggering Garcia with a series of blows that nearly sent him tumbling to the mat.
That gave the crowd a brief charge but they were back booing in the 10th, when the action slowed before its inconclusive end.
In a much more entertaining bout, Benoit Gaudet (18-1, seven knockouts), of Drummondville, Que., defended his NABA super featherweight title with an unanimous 10-round decision over Mexico's Alejandro Barrera (18-2, 12 knockouts).
Gaudet struggled the first three rounds but began picking Barrera apart from the fourth onwards, connecting with several beautiful combos while darting away from the shots heading his way.
He kept getting stronger in the later rounds, landing a few devastating blows. Barrera didn't fall, but he didn't have an answer either.
Toronto's Raymond (Mount Kilimanjaro) Olubowale, the reigning Canadian heavyweight champion, improved to 7-2-1 (four knockouts) after an unanimous six-round decision over American Demetrice King (14-17, 12 knockouts).
Olubowale exacted some revenge for his TKO loss to King on Oct. 27, 2007 in the sloppy but-action-packed bout.
King taunted the Canadian while absorbing a visibly annoyed Olubowale's early whupping before dropping some bombs of his own in the middle rounds. Both were tired by the fifth round and spent lots of time hanging onto one another before Olubowale's strong sixth helped seal the win.
In the night's first tilt, another heavyweight bout, Greg (The Steel Pole) Kielsa of Brampton, Ont., improved to 7-0 (three knockouts) by winning an unanimous eight-round decision over Jerry (Big Daddy) Butler (7-5, seven knockouts).
The tubby Bahamian fighter withstood a terrific beating from Kielsa, who avoided his opponent's knockout-punch attempts while picking him apart.
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