|
Hill Spills Holm!
Main Event an Upset But The Jackson/Winkeljohn Team Clean Up
Undercard
text and
photos by chris cozzone
The knockouts
were plentiful, the beer-a-plenty, and all but one house fighter
went home with a win.
Sunday night's
"Triple Threat Fight Night" at Cowboy's Bar & Grill, promoted by
first-time promoters GKB Productions, in association with Ring
of Fire, packed a full house who came to watch bodies fly and
bodies drop in seven bouts spilt between boxing, kickboxing and
no-holds-barred fighting.
Unfortunately,
the loss was dished out to main event fighter Holly Holm by a
fighter who should not have been able to beat her--at least on
paper.
In March of
this year, Trisha "TNT" Hill was a featherweight who shocked the
women's boxing world with a knockout win over IFBA champion Lisa
Foster. Five weeks later, Hill was fighting in Albuquerque
against 140-pound Holly Holm--and weighing in a solid 138
pounds on her 5'3" frame.
Still, on
paper, Holly's height and reach would've been enough to secure
her a "safe" win in her hometown. But Hill came to fight - and,
true to her nickname "TNT", was packing heat in her gloves.
After six
bouts of no-brain wins for the hometowners, Holm vs. Hill gave
fans what they came for: one helluva fight.
Keeping the
shorter Hill at bay, Holly managed to take the first two rounds
with her kicks. Hill won the exchanges close quarter but Holm
scored the damaging blows with her feet.
The tide
changed in the second part of Round Three when Hill landed a
bomb of a right hook that had Holm staggering. After tying up
and then using kicks to fight back, Holm showed a big heart
trying to win back the round.
Hill was
relentless in closing the distance and suckering Holm into
brawling. Early into the 4th, she landed a picture perfect right
hand that flattened Holm to the canvas. While Holly continued to
throw a half-hearted left right while horizontal, the ref jumped
in and immediately stopped the contest after seeing Holms eyes
roll dangerously back.
Holm
experiences her first professional loss while Hill, a 5-2 boxer
and 15-2 kickboxer, goes home with yet another major upset win.
The six-fight
undercard started up with mixed martial art fighter Carlos
Condit, who gets his second pro win with a bloody beating over
the heavier, but less-skilled
Tyrell McElroy.
McElroy was taken
down and battered about on the canvas until the ref stopped the
action to check out the splattered nose. The fight resumed but
only until 2:49 when Condit had McElroy tapping out to a choke
hold.
Fight #2 was a
boxing match between pro debuter James Martinez and Denver's
Lawrence Burrell.
Burrell lacked
Martinez's ferocity and although fighting back despite a lack of
sleep from a late arrival, was the only fighter to make it into
the 2nd round on the undercard.
At 2:25 of the
2nd, the pro kickboxer Martinez, struggling to keep himself from
throwing kicks, hammered away at Burrell until the ref stopped
in and ended matters.
Martinez gets his
first pro win while Burrell slips to 0-3.
Bout #3 was a
no-holds-barred fight between 2-0 Shad Olvera and 2-0 Gerard
Green from Carlsbad. The fight was a quickie: not long into the
1st, Olvera had applied a rear naked choke hold on Green who
tapped out.
Kickboxer Terris
James vs. Adam Garcia was next. This time, the fight went
through four knockdowns and the time of 1:57 before the fight
was called off in favor of James.
Fight #5 saw Tommy
Aragon make a comeback fighter against 0-4 Tyree Tidwell.
Tidwell tried his
best but after a couple knockdowns from the more experienced
slugger Aragon, he could not make the count.
Coming off a tough
knockout loss to Miguel "Conan" Torrecillas, Aragon now moves to
8-4.
The final
undercard fight saw "Big" Dan Christison take on the shorter
Albert Lopez in a no-holds-barred contest. Again, another short
one: about halfway through the first round, Lopez, outgunned,
was tapping out while Big Dan hammered him from above while
straddling him.
# # #
Tommy Aragon
dedicates his fight to his brother Arsenio Aragon who is overseas in
the Armed Forces. |
