106lbs - Finals: Aaron Alafa’s sharp southpaw punches and superior defense helped him outbox Raytona Whitfield. Whitfield did come on strong in the final round though.
112lbs -Finals: Francisco Rodriquez outhustled Francisco Moncada to clearly win.
119lbs -Finals: Rashiem Jefferson utilized speed, punch volume, and good body punches and uppercuts to defeat tough Terry Gladden. Arguably, Jefferson was the most impressive boxer of the tournament in terms of his ability and quality of fighters he had to defeat. However, Jefferson needs to better pronate his punches and a strength program would be advised if he intends to win at the international level. 125lbs -Finals: Aaron Garcia defeated John Santiago in a war. It was the fight of the night and the crowd gave them a standing ovation. You could hear the thud of Garcia’s body shots from ringside. 132lbs- Finals: Lamont Peterson defeated Juan Suazo in a controversial decision. Suazo’s punches appeared harder, cleaner, and more effective. The crowd booed vehemently. 139lbs -Finals: Chad Aquino outhustled Tiger Allen. 147lbs -Finals: James Parison had a tough one with James Kirkland, but did just a little more to win a narrow decision. 156lbs -Finals: Strong and talented Andre Berto narrowly defeated Jimmy Gonzalez, who made it a close fight. Berto needs to improve his punch output and throw more jabs, but he is a raw talent to watch in the future. 165lbs -Finals: Alfred Kinsey was a bit stronger than Otto Holifield and that may have been the difference in this close fight in which Kinsey’s strength and counter shots won rounds one and two, but Holifield’s minimalist southpaw boxing won rounds three and four. 178lbs-Finals: Cristobal Arreola again utilized his workmanlike effort to pound on Dallas Vargas to win comfortably. 201lbs -Finals: Devin Vargas outclassed and outlanded Charles Ellis. 201+Finals: Lonnie Zaid did the bare minimum to easily outbox Mike Alexander. |