Tachi Palace 02-06 Card Fixes

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The Tony Hirsch-Anthony Cannon bout from the ShoBox undercard Andre Ward-Henry Buchanan was a four-round bout.

IT was originally scheduled for six but the commission changed it to 4 based on the experience level of Cannon.

The fighters both thought it was 6 rounds until the bell rang at the end of the 4th and it became obvious the fight was over.

http://2lefthook.blogspot.com/2009/02/w ... hanan.html

Oakland, California’s Tony Hirsch overcame a seven-month layoff, the longest of his career, to win every second of every round against the overmatched Anthony Cannon [4-11, KO] of Saginaw, Michigan in a four-round middleweight bout. Hirsch had his way with Cannon, especially near the ropes where Hirsch was able to fire at will against an opponent who seemed to only know how to play defense. Cannon had his earmuffs on for most of the bout, and would occasionally try and answer Hirsch with comic-book style left hooks and straight rights that Hirsch saw coming. The bout was originally slated for six rounds, and neither fighter knew that had changed until the fourth round was over, a slightly odd fact.

Official scores read 40-36 x3.




Also, the James Ventry-Ruben Cuellar fight from the same card was mislabeled as a victory for Ventry.

From the same article:

In his first bout in over three-and-a-half years, Ruben Cuellar [3-1, KO] of Tulare, California scored a six-round split decision victory over James Ventry [7-7-1, 4 KOs] of Niagara Falls, New York. Ventry overcame a first-round knockdown to put himself in the thick of the fight, but didn’t do enough to earn a victory. The official scores were 59-54, 58-55 for Cuellar and 57-56 for Ventry.

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