Guilty Boxing

Last night I watched the re-broadcast of Guilty Boxing's Friday Night Fights from the previous evening. Ebo Elder, who I'd seen box before, is the stereotypical scrappy 'lil white guy, and he took a pounding from Lakva Sim, an experienced former super flyweight champ. Sim, who was the first Mongolian to win a world title, thoroughly outclassed Elder, TKO-ing him in the twelfth and final round, after 4 official knockdowns (should've been 6). Even without the TKO, the scorecards wouldn't have been close, with Ebo losing every round after the second. This was an eliminator bout for an upcoming title shot against WBA lightweight champ Juan Diaz, who took the belt from Sim a little over a year ago in a unanimous decision.

Elder, who was boxing in his adopted hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, was a crowd favorite, and he showed a lot of heart. I'm sure we'll see him again, but I don't think he'll ever be a legitimate contender, unless he improves his boxing skills.

The second "attraction fight" was Sultan Ibragimov versus Friday Ahunanya, in a fight between slow, relatively out of shape heavyweights, the first of whom is allegedly on the rise, the second who missed blew his chance, and now simply serves as a stepping stone for guys on the way up. The story is at the bottom of the page, here.