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PROMO

Boxing returns to Memorial Hall on Oct. 30
Halifax Wickedlocal.com October 12, 2014[1]
PLYMOUTH - Framingham's Danny "Bhoy" O'Connor and Virginia's Andrew Farmer will 
battle it out in the special "Monster Brawl" on Thursday, Oct. 30. The FOX Sports 1 
and FOX Deportes' Golden Boy Live! series will be held at Memorial Hall in Plymouth, 
headlining a stellar night of world-class boxing action. The bout, which was originally 
scheduled for St. Patrick's Day, but was postponed due to an injury sustained by O'Connor.
Doors open at 6 p.m. and the first fight starts at 7 p.m. 
The FOX Sports 1 and FOX Deportes broadcast airs live at 10 p.m.
Tickets priced at $100 (Ringside - Reserved seating), $80 (Floor seating - Reserved), 
$65 (Mezzanine - General admission) and $45 (Balcony - General admission) are available for 
purchase now at any of the six Brennan's Smoke Shop locations or by visiting www.murphysboxing.com

REPORT

Whitman middleweight Mark DeLuca a winner[2]
By Jay N. Miller; For The Patriot Ledger Posted Oct. 31, 2014 @ 3:18 am Updated Oct 31, 2014 at 3:24 AM
PLYMOUTH – Whitman middlewight Mark DeLuca got a torrid workout from St. Louis vet Ryan Davis, but ultimately 
DeLuca’s ferocious body attack was too much, and Davis did not come out for the fifth round of their scheduled 
six-rounder Thursday night at Memorial Hall in Plymouth.
DeLuca was slated to fight in the ‘‘swing bout’’ on the card televised by Fox Sports-1 network, and a couple of
early stoppages resulted in the local pug boxing around 10 p.m. before a nationwide audience and about 1,000 
fans in the arena. DeLuca downed his foe with a flurry of body blows in the first round and another fusillade
in the third round forced Davis, 24-14-3, to take a knee in the third. When another DeLuca volley had Davis
sagging into the ropes, referee Mike Marvelle gave him a standing-eight count.
DeLuca was teeing off throughout the fourth round and, with Davis hopelessly behind on the scorecards,
continuing would have been futile.
“That was a tough kid and I respect that,” said DeLuca, 12-0, afterwards. “I had hurt him to the body early in
the first round and thought I could go back there. He did catch me one time with a right hand counter in the
first, but you expect that with a guy like this. That was why I didn’t jump on him in the first when I had him
hurt – I didn’t want to get careless. It’s a good win and I’m back in the gym tomorrow, since I’m boxing again
Nov. 26 in Quincy.” “This was just what Mark needed,” said trainer Jimmy Farrell Jr. “As you go along, your
opponents should get tougher and tougher, and Mark just beat a very rugged old pro.”
In the night’s main event, Framingham junior-welterweight Danny O’Connor was sailing along with a workmanlike
peppering of Virginia’s Andrew Farmer when a nasty cut over O’Connor’s right eye forced him to step it up.
O’Connor had Farmer down in the second, but when he dropped him to the canvas in the fifth round, it was all
over. O’Connor, 24-2, looked sharp and thoroughly outclassed his foe. Farmer 18-3, never really got untracked.
The night’s telecast opened with Dublin middleweight Jason Quigley going to 3-0 as a pro with a first-round
knockout of New Haven’s Greg McCoy. Quigley was outlanding McCoy early, and a left-right combo dropped the
Connecticut fighter for a 10-count at 2:39.
In the co-featured 10-rounder, Ugandan lightweight sensation Sharif Bogere dominated Mexican vet Fernando Garcia,
en route to a fifth-round knockout. Bogere improved to 26-1 with his 18th KO, while Garcia, who hardly threw a
punch in the final round before being dropped on the seat of his trunks at 2:10, fell to 28-4-2.
    On the undercard, Boston-by-way-of-Donegal super-welterweight Michael McLaughlin dispatched Somerville’s
Paulo DeSouza in two rounds to improve to 9-1-1. D’Mitrius Ballard, from Washington, D.C., stopped Tom Gifford in
the first round of their light-heavy match, when the Arkansas pug sprained his ankle. Hyannis supermiddleweight
Paul Gonsalves had to settle for a majority four-round draw against Somerville’s Sergio Cabrera, despite nearly
stopping his foe in the final minute.
Brockton heavyweight Julian Pollard ran his pro record to 4-0 with a two-round pummeling of Kansas City’s 302
pound John Orr on the undercard. Pollard, the former Syracuse University defensive lineman, did eat one right
cross from his foe in the first round, but a steady attack on Orr’s substantial mid-section paid off in round two.
Body blows twice sent Orr to his knees for a respite, and a solid right hand to the jaw dropped him again for an
eight-count just before the bell. Between rounds Orr’s corner decided to save their man from further punishment.
Pollard, a three-time New England Golden Gloves champ, said he has been alternating between boxing and “bareknuckle
boxing,” where he is 3-0. The 6-5 heavyweight now trains at Tri-Force MMA in Pawtucket, R.I., the former site of
the Manfredo Brothers Boxing Gym.
“This was an awkward opponent, but I was also finding it difficult to go from BKB (bareknuckle boxing) back to
boxing,” said Pollard, who works for a liquor distributor by day. “There is a very different pace and sense of
space between the two varieties, and it took me a whole round to get going. I really had to take that first punch
from him, that good right hand, to get myself going. Once I got past that, I began getting my combinations rolling.”

O'Connor scores KO in comeback[3]
By Brian Campbell | ESPN.com Updated: October 31, 2014, 1:14 AM ET
Welterweight Danny O'Connor took care of business in his return from a one-year layoff. O'Connor (24-2, 8 KOs) jumped
all over Andrew Farmer off the opening bell and never let up en route to a fourth-round knockout Thursday night at
Memorial Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The bout served as a homecoming for O'Connor, 29, a native of nearby Framingham. The former two-time U.S. amateur
national champion was coming off elbow surgery and a brief retirement.
O'Connor, a southpaw, used a quick jab to set an aggressive pace in the opening round. He wobbled Farmer (18-3, 7 KOs)
with a flush jab in Round 2, which led to the Virginia native taking a knee moments later after absorbing a flurry from
O'Connor along the ropes. Farmer, 29, continued to have issues with O'Connor's speed in Round 4 and was dropped on a
hard left hand to the body. Referee Jack Morell counted Farmer out at 2:33.
Bogere puts away Garcia
Former world title challenger Sharif Bogere capped an unbeaten 2014 with a fifth-round knockout of Fernando Garcia.
Bogere (26-1, 18 KOs) dropped a decision to lightweight titlist Richar Abril in March 2013.
But the native of Uganda, who fights out of Las Vegas, recorded his third victory of the year Thursday, with all three
coming inside of the distance. Garcia (30-7-2, 18 KOs), of Mexico, fought back well after being dropped on a left hook
early in Round 2. But Bogere took over from there, knocking Garcia down -- and ultimately out -- on a right hand in
Round 5. Garcia sat up, but did not want to continue.
Quigley stays unbeaten
Former Irish amateur standout and current Golden Boy prospect Jason Quigley stayed unbeaten with a highlight-reel
knockout in his third pro fight. A native of Ballybofey, Ireland, Quigley (3-0, 3 KOs) squared off with late replacement
Greg McCoy, 38, in a four-round super middleweight bout that needed just short of three minutes to produce an outcome.
Quigley, 23, produced a highlight-reel finish by landing a perfect two-punch combination to finish McCoy (3-4-1) at 2:39
of the opening round.