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Carman wins wild one[1]
By Dave Spencer; FightNews October 25th, 2014
In a wild firestorm brawl that featured seven knockdowns in seven rounds, Dillon Carman captured the 
Canadian heavyweight championship landing the final salvo over Eric Martel Bahoeli (10-5 7KO) at 2:46
of 7th round at the Mattamy Centre in Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto Ontario. Carman (7-2 6KO) got off
the canvas twice to deliver victory with referee Mark Simmons waving the bout off with Martel planted
on the canvas, his right leg awkwardly bent beneath him. “That’s what champions do, they get up,”
Carman told those in attendance and a national television afterwards. The new champ found himself on
the canvas two seconds into the second round from a big right hand from Martel who emptied much of
the kitchen sink afterwards, trying to end things early instead of banking a 10-8 round. ‘Big Country’
weathered the storm and came back and dominated the third, scoring a pair of knockdowns of his own and
coming within a whisper of ending things there. After chasing down a spent Martel and dropping him to
his knees and arms draped over the top rope at the halfway point of the round, Carman kept coming
forward and punctuated the round with a right-left combination that looked like it might end the fight.
Martel only just cleared his gloves from the canvas as the count reached nine and was ordered to his
corner as the bell rang. But in a bout that had as many plot twists as a Hitchcock film, Martel came
back strong in the 4th as the pendulum began changing direction once again. The momentum was short
lived for Martel though in what proved to be a wild roller coaster fifth that was a microcosm of the
entire fight. A huge overhand right put the Quebec fighter through the ropes and almost out of the
ring, tangled up like a Spiderman villain. Martel was able to free himself from the tangled web and
with forty seconds left in the round as both fighters were throwing bombs from different postal codes,
the Quebecer landed with a cannonating right hand that stopped Carman in his tracks and down to the
canvas. It was a Hail Mary, asked and answered, but ultimately short lived. Twenty seconds later and
with twenty seconds left in the round, it was Martel who was again on the canvas, face down in the
corner. With Martel spending more canvas time than Picasso there was little left in the tank. Bouts
of standing still and hands down, each punch thrown as ravaging him as much as any received, what
vapours that were left in the gas tank were quickly evaporating. In a battle of haymakers where last
punch wins, it was Carman who put forth the best combination of the night, a five punch volley that
pummelled Martel down for the final time.

In the day’s co-feature, another battle for Canadian supremacy was on tap as a pair of Quebec former
heavyweights battled for the vacant national cruiserweight title with Sylvera Louis (6-3 2KO) winning
a majority decision over Didier Bence (10-2 3KO). Scorecards were 75-75, 77-75, and a highly
questionable 79-73 for Louis who had previously posted wins versus both headliners. Bence’s reaction
to the decision told it all, a look of shock and surprise as the winner was announced. It was a much
better effort for Bence who looked very tentative last time out following being knocked the time
previous. The bout was a clench filled affair with Bence getting some of the better shots along the
way but was far from dominating.

In a Canadian title middleweight mismatch, Janks Trotter (9-1-1 9KO) obliterated Walid Smichet
(21-8-3 15KO) scoring three knockdowns in less than a minute. It took Trotter from Calgary about ten
seconds to figure out the 35 year-old who recently came back from a four year retirement. A right
hand right down the pipeline from Trotter ended this one almost before it got started. Smichet was
on his backside from the first punch and went down twice more to end this one early.