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2014-10-01 Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California, US

• Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam W UD Curtis Stevens
• Fredrick Lawson W UD Ray Narh
• Miguel Marriaga W KO Christopher Martin
• Issa Akberbayev W TKO Giovanni Sarran
• Sergiy Derevyanchenko W UD Laatekwei Hammond

PROMO

Weights from Santa Monica[1]
FightNews Photos: Karl Freitag September 30th, 2014
Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam 158.2 vs. Curtis Stevens 158.8 (IBF middleweight eliminator)
Fredrick Lawson 147.8 vs. Ray Narh 146.6
Miguel Marriaga 125.6 vs. Christopher Martin 125.8
Isa Akberbayev 193.8 vs. Geovanni Sarran 205.2
Sergiy Derevyanchenko 164.2 vs. Laatekwei Hammond 162
Venue: Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California
Promoter: King Sports TV: ESPN2

REPORT

N’Dam dominates Stevens in IBF eliminator[2]
By Rocky Morales at ringside; FightNews October 1st, 2014
Hassan N’Dam (31-1, 18KO) won a clear cut unanimous decision victory over tough, but limited, challenger, 
Curtis Stevens (27-5, 20KO) on Wednesday night at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. Stevens 
had his moments but was dropped in the eight round by a perfect right cross counter and was simply 
outboxed all night by the former WBO middleweight champion, N’Dam. Scores were 116-111, 116-111, 119-108. 
With the victory, N’Dam becomes the mandatory challenger to IBF champion Sam Soliman.

Undefeated power puncher, Frederick Lawson (23-0, 20KO) battered slick, but aging, 36 year old veteran, 
Ray Narh (26-6, 21KO). Narh was put on the canvas in the second round by a left hook, again in the eighth 
round by a left hook counter and punished until the final bell. Lawson showed no compassion for his fellow 
Ghanian countryman and easily won by unanimous decision with scores of 99-89, 95-93 (inexplicably by Judge 
Gwen Adair) and 99-89.

#9 WBC rated featherweight, Miguel Marriaga (19-0, 17KO), steamrolled over solid fringe contender Chris 
Martin (28-4-3) stopping him at 2:30 of the sixth round. Martin was cut earlier in the bout from a punch 
and dropped hard earlier in the sixth round by an uppercut. Martin was never in the fight against the power 
punching Colombian.

In a cruiserweight bout, Isa Akberbayev (13-0, 9KO) was the winner over Geovanni Serran (5-8, 1KO) by way 
of TKO victory at the 2:20 of the fourth round. The 6’3″ Akberbayev towered over the obese 5’7″ Sarran and 
knocked him down with a right cross midway through the fourth round before battering him enough for the 
referee to call an end to the fight.

In a walkbout four round middleweight bout, 2008 Olympian from Ukraine, Sergiy Derevyanchenko (2-0, 1KO) 
won a unanimous decision victory over Lekan Byfield (5-6). Byfield went down from a hard right cross in the 
second round, again in the third round from a body shot and again in the fifth round from a right cross but 
Derevyanchenko had to, ultimately, settle for a wide decision victory. Scores were unanimous at 40-33 in 
favor of Derevyanchenko.

“Boxing At Barker” was presented by King Sports at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, CA. Celebrities in 
attendance included Sylvester Stallone, Dustin Hoffman and Cuba Gooding Jr. and the UCLA Marching Band made 
an appearance parading around the venue between bouts.