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Results From Toledo[1]
By Lindy Lindell; FightNews Photos: Bob Ryder December 6th, 2014
Using a well-schooled, rapid left jab, native son Sonny Fredrickson dominated a tough Darryl Hayes, Houston,
over six brisk-paced rounds last night at the Grand Plaza Hotel in Toledo, Ohio. The seven-bout card was a
well-matched Rise Fighting promotion with Fred Vallejo promoting and matchmaking. While all of the fighters
emerging from the red corner were winners, they found stout competition in all but two of the bouts.
Fredrickson might be the tallest lightweight out there, though if he is 6’1” as is billed, he’s going to
have stand next to a measuring stick to convince this reporter that he’s over six foot. Suffice to say that
he is an extremely tall lightweight and the differential between himself and opponent Hayes gave spectators
a Mutt-and-Jeff appearance that seemed to portend a mismatch. It wasn’t.
Though Fredrickson’s performance was borderline dominant, and though he was in control throughout, he didn’t
get the knockout he wanted (he claimed after the fight that not getting the knockout didn’t bother him) and
one of his cornermen predicted (“He’s gonna knock him out,” one said during the third round.), but none of
this detracted from his near-flawless and professional performance. Shooting out a rapid jab and mostly
advancing through three, Fredrickson stepped up the pace in the fourth, banging the body of the 5’5” Hayes,
3-4. The onslaught continued and ramped up, particularly in the last two rounds; not only was Hayes not to
be moved, but also he fought back. After the fight, Hayes admitted to feeling one each head and body shots,
but insisted that he wasn’t close to going down. From the peepers of this journalist, (despite shouts from
Fredrickson’s corner that Hayes was “hurt”) he was right.
With Fredrickson (4-0) and fellow Toledan, welterweight Angelo Snow, also 4-0, Toledo has two very talented
boxers whose names boxing aficionados would be well advised to write their names down on the inside of
their headbands for future reference. Snow easily bested a determined but outgunned Detroiter, Anthony
Brooks, 1-1, in four.
In the one other scheduled six, Cleveland’s Ryan Martin, another tall lightweight, ran his record to 10-0
with a four-knockdown TKO2 blowout over Edgar Llanes, 13-7, though not before being briefly interrupted by
receiving a right on the chops in the first that deposited him on his pratt; Martin had registered a beaut
of a 1-2 that decked Llanes, but with his man on the ropes, Martin walked in squared-up and found himself
with the favor returned. Martin overwhelmed Llanes in the second with left hooks.
In other fights, welterweight Elias Moreno, 2-0, Monroe, MI, bested Andrew Morais, 1-4-1, Dearborn, MI;
Deandre Ware, Monroe, super-middleweight, smashed fellow pro-debuter Zeatuo Lyon, Lansing, MI, to the
canvas thrice for a TK01 in just :57; featherweight Tyler McCreary, 3-0, easily had his way with novice
Antonio Gonzales, 0-1, who was game, bloodied, and hands-held-aloft-clueless why referee Jamie Howe
finally stopped the mismatch in the third; and the evening was kicked off with a good scrap that had
junior-middleweight Jeremy Caughorn, Toledo, making a successful pro debut over Bryan, Ohio’s Matt
Montalvo, 0-2-1, in four.