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Weights from Washington DC [1]
By Gary “Digital” Williams; FightNews September 19th, 2014
Here is the scale watch for the GFS Entertainment Promotions card on Saturday, 
September 20 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC:
Henry Buchanan 173 vs. Alexander Johnson 174
DeMarcus Corley 133 vs. Daniel Attah 135
Demond Nicholson 161 vs. Dennis Sharpe 163
Jarrett Hurd 154 vs. Damon Antoine (will weigh in on Friday)
Jeff Lacy 178 vs. Rayco Saunders 174
Hector Camacho, Jr.’s bout with Ryan Davis has been scratched. No official word was given.

REPORT

Results from Washington DC [2]
By Gary “Digital” Williams at ringside FightNews Photos: Mike Greenhill September 21st, 2014
Prior to the main event bout at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC Saturday night, 
there was a lot of speculation on who would win the local “grudge” bout between veteran Maryland light 
heavyweights Alexander ‘The Great” Johnson and Henry ‘Sugar Poo” Buchanan. The bout was anticipated for 
months and the two men did a great deal of talking. It took just one left hand to end all the speculation.
Johnson sent a left hand crashing into the right jaw of Buchanan and dropped him with a minute to go in the 
opening round. Buchanan got up but was very wobbly and in no condition to continue. The bout was stopped at 
2:10 of the round. Johnson is now (16-2, 7 KOs) while Buchanan falls to (21-4, 14 KOs).
The bout was the main event of a card that was shortened as three of the six scheduled bouts were scratched 
at the very last minute. The scheduled main event between former IBF Super Middleweight champion Jeff “Left 
Hook” Lacy and Rayco “War” Saunders was cancelled for unknown reasons. The promoter, GFS Entertainment, 
would not comment on why the bout was cancelled.
An injury kept Hector “Machito” Camacho, Jr. from facing Ryan Davis and undefeated local prospect “Swift” 
Jarrett Hurd’s bout was taken off the card for unknown reasons.
That left just three bouts on the card, all featuring Washington-area talent and the large crowd at the 
Washington Convention Center seemed to be very satisfied with what they saw. The co-feature matched two 
true Washington, DC veterans in a bout that turned out to be very lopsided. Former WBO Junior Welterweight 
champion DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley battered former world title challenger Daniel “The Prophet” Attah for 
10 rounds en route to a lopsided unanimous decision.
Corley dropped Attah five times once in the fourth, twice in the fifth and twice in the eighth. However, 
Attah somehow managed to last until the final bell. Corley won by scores of 100-86, 99-86 and 100-85 to 
raise his record to (42-22-1, 25 KOs). Attah has dropped to (28-19-1, 11 KOs).
In the opening contest, undefeated and highly-touted middleweight Demond “D Best At It” Nicholson stopped 
Dennis “The Shark” Sharpe of Bayonne, NJ in the fourth round. Nicholson dropped Sharpe three times, twice 
with body shots in the fourth before the bout was stopped at 2:36.
Nicholson was incredibly accurate hitting Sharpe with every punch imaginable and eventually wearing Sharpe 
down. Nicholson remains perfect at (10-0, 10 KOs) while Sharpe falls to (17-13-4, 4 KOs).
The card was the debut promotion for GFS (Growing For Success) Entertainment. The matchmaker was Brian 
Dillon. The ring announcer was Henry “Discombobulating” Jones.
The boxing card was the final part of a weekend where the Washington area honored many of its former world 
champions and contenders, including the four men who held world titles at the same time in the mid-90’s: 
Keith Holmes, William Joppy, Sharmba Mitchell and International Boxing Hall of Famer Mark Johnson.

Much More on the Debacle in D.C.; Jeff Lacy Lashes Out[3]
by David P. Greisman; BoxingScene Last update:  9/21/2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It had already been a bizarre evening at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Then the night got even stranger, with an announcement that former super-middleweight titleholder Jeff 
Lacy’s fight with Rayco Saunders had been canceled. Later, Lacy and Saunders each came out to the ring 
ready to fight. Finally, their bout was called off nonetheless.
But even before that, there was the cancelation of a fight between Hector Camacho Jr. and Ryan Davis, 
not that you would’ve known this by checking the event’s website or the bout sheet handed out to media.
No official reason was given, though rumblings among press row and other D.C. boxing insiders said that 
Camacho had gotten injured in training camp, was overweight, had shown up in the city anyway and had 
even gotten paid some money ahead of time. Another undercard bout, this one between Jarrett Hurd and 
Eddie Soto, had also been called off.
There were extended gaps between fights, never mind the significant swaths of empty seats. Daniel Attah 
at one point came to the ring, waited for DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley to come out, then returned to his 
locker room. It would be quite a while before Attah made his second ring walk of the evening and the 
match with Corley actually occurred.
There had been six pro fights listed on the bout sheet, which followed a handful of amateur bouts. Only 
three actually happened.

In the first pro fight, local middleweight/super middleweight Demond Nicholson scored a fourth-round 
technical knockout over journeyman Dennis Sharpe. Then Corley won an extremely wide unanimous decision 
over Attah, putting Attah down five times over the course of the bout.
And right before Henry “Sugar Poo” Buchanan stepped into the ring with Alexander Johnson, it was 
announced that Buchanan-Johnson would be the last bout of the evening, even though Lacy-Saunders had not 
yet occurred. No official reason had been given. Johnson landed a left cross in the first round that put 
Buchanan down for the count. Fans began to file out of the venue. Jeff Lacy soon began to walk to the 
ring. He went up the steps and onto the canvas.
“They ain’t told me nothing,” Lacy said to someone at ringside. He paced around the ring. Saunders soon 
came out toward the ring. “There’s no fight!” a person at ringside, apparently acting in an official 
capacity, yelled out. “Everybody’s out. There’s no fight!” that person yelled. “Let’s go! No fight!” He 
yelled to another staffer: “Do not let nobody else through there! That’s it! There ain’t no fight!”
Lacy picked up a microphone, holding it with his still-gloved hands.
“I never said I didn’t want to fight. I’m in the ring to fight,” he said. “I want to let my fans know 
because I got a reputation.” He didn’t want people to think that he was to blame for the bout not 
happening, he said. “Me and my opponent are right here ready to fight. They didn’t tell us nothing. For 
some reason, these seats are starting to be empty. For whatever reason, I don’t know. But we ready to 
fight.”
He soon spoke with BoxingScene.com while taking off his gloves and then walking back to his dressing 
room: “They had us in the back warming up,” Lacy said. “They kept moving me back from main event to 
swing bout to I don’t know what else. But I come to find out everybody leaving, so I came out her to 
pay my respects to my fans. They didn’t say why. They still haven’t told me anything.”
Derek Gionta, who was Saunders’ chief second, corroborated this afterward.
“They switched the order of the fights a number of times and moved our locker room once,” Gionta told 
BoxingScene.com. There was confusion the entire time. One rumor was that the card had gone over its 
time limit and the venue needed to shut down. Gionta was told by a member of the convention center’s 
security team that Lacy didn’t want to fight. “I find it hard to believe that Jeff didn't want to fight,” 
Gionta said. “Everyone believes it was a money issue.”
That appears to be what it was. The head of the city’s athletic commission told a local matchmaker/
publicist that the fight had been called off because the promoter hadn’t provided the money for the 
bout to be paid to the fighters afterward. While the money was there up front for the other matches that 
had already taken place, that was not the case for Lacy-Saunders, and so that fight couldn’t be allowed 
to go on.
“I didn’t do everything that I’ve done to fight for free,” Lacy said. “That’s the reason why I came, 
because they threw money in my face. I lived up to my end of the agreement on the contract. At the end 
of the day, I was ready to fight, my opponent was ready to fight, and we come out here to fight, and the 
arena was empty.”
This was a card put on GFS Boxing as part of its “Celebrity Weekend of Champions,” which also included a 
golf tournament, an awards ceremony, and appearances by Roger and Jeff Mayweather at a gym in suburban 
Maryland, where they worked one-on-one with a number of amateur boxers (Floyd Mayweather Sr. had also been 
advertised but was not there). Lacy later said he’d been promised $10,000 for the fight with Saunders.
Gionta said Saunders was paid his travel money, which is part of the fighter’s compensation and covers car 
rental, gas, food, etc. It’s not much, however.
“The purse, which is a substantial amount more, was not paid to Rayco,” Gionta said. “Looks like they will 
go after the promoter's bond to pay his purse. Not sure what the other fighters will do.”
It was another bizarre situation for Lacy, who got stopped in two rounds against Humberto Savigne this past 
July, then proceeded to use social media toclaim that the man he’d faced was much bigger than the man who 
had been at the weigh-in and must’ve been a brother of Savigne’s who had been substituted in. The 37-year-
old from St. Petersburg, Florida, remains 26-5 with 18 KOs and 1 no contest. Saunders, 40, of Pittsburgh, 
remains 23-24-2 with 10 KOs.
“I’ve been in training camp, I just came off a fight, I stayed in training camp. It’s been over two to 
three months,” Lacy said. “It goes to show you the business of boxing, how bad it is. It showcased what us 
fighters have to deal with behind the curtains. This is the sport I love. I grew up loving the sport. It’s 
a pure love that I have for this sport, at the age of seven. And I feel the devil is trying to strip that 
away from me.”