New HW Boxers Rated

[Cap]

There were moments in that fight where I thought "Oh-oh. Guinn's smacked Lyakhovich on the chin and the belo-ruskie looks shaky. One more good thump and..." but the follow-up never materialized. Guinn has the physical tools, but his mind is not in it. He should consider another line of work.

Cap

[Rocco Del Sesto]

01/17/67 Tuesday
Miami, FL, USA
Willie McIntyre – LHW (0-0-0) vs. Tony Flame – LHW (1-1-0)

Willie McIntyre - Rating 1 USA
Light Heavyweight 1967-70,79
12 wins / 15 losses / 4 draws / 4 KO

Hometown: Miami, FL

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

McIntyre fought from January 1967 thru June 1970 compiling a 12-12-4, 4KO Record. During that period he fought mainly as a Light Heavyweight and thus he's rated as such even though BoxRec lists him as a Heavyweight. That is because after stepping away from the ring for 9 years, he came back in April 1979 and in 1979 fought and lost 3 fights against James Slerno, Michael Dokes and Carlos DeLeon. Dokes and DeLeon KO'd McIntyre in the 2nd and 1st rounds. This rating of McIntryre is based on his career from 1967-70. You wonder, I suppose it's money or something that drives some of these fighters to come back into the ring after being gone for so long and try and fight guys they obviously have no business in the same ring with.

Some of McIntyre's more noteworthy opponents were an 8 round draw with middleweight Herman Dixon(26-35-6,13), a fight he lost in the 8th round by disqualification to LHW Eddie Talhami(24-12-1,17), a 2nd round KO loss to Ray Anderson(35-19-5,20). McIntyre stopped LHW Gene Idelette(28-9-1,19) in consecutive fights and then lost a 10 round decision and won a 10 round split decision in consecutive fights with LHW Baby Boy Rolle(36-17-2,16). He fough John Hudgins(15-20-5,12) 4 times winning 2 loosing 1 and drawing 1.


Tony Flame - Rating 1 USA
Light Heavyweight 1966-67
1 win / 3 losses / 0 draws / 0 KO

Hometown: Miami, FL

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Fought Lou Howard(8-31-1,5) three times! Lost a 4 round decision in their first fight, then Flame defeated Howard by 4th round decision. He then faced off against Willi McIntyre and lost another 4 rounder decision. Flames final career fight was January 1967 against Lou Howard again. This ime Howard KO'd Flame in the 4th round to end Flame's breif career.


The fight....
McIntyre was coming into the ring for his first career fight against another local Miami fighter Tony Flame whom himself had just fought his first career fights in 1966 splitting two fights with another local named Lou Howard. The scheduled 4 round affair vs. these two ended in a 4 round decision victory for McIntyre.
Our replay started out with some excitement in the first round as McIntyre at the 1:50 mark sends a wicked upper cut that sends Flame to the canvas for a 7 count to easily win the round for McIntyre, 10-8 on all judges cards. Flame though manages to come back in the 2nd round and win a tough close round that lacked the excitement of the first. Round 3 was again a dull affair which Flame won again 10-9 on two cards leaving the 4th and final round to decide things. The 4th round, McIntyre comes out quick and lands a combination that stuns Flame putting him down momentarily for a 2 count. As quick as McIntyre took the initiative coming out into the 4th, he really let it slip away. Up by a 9-2 point count, Flame fought his way back to finish the round down only 12-9 on points. It was not enough to over come the fact though that with the brief knockdown, all judges scored it 10-8 in the 4th for Willie and that gave McIntyre a unanimous decision victory 38-36, 38-36, 39-35.

[jofre]

Originally Posted by IceTea

I don't buy the more talented line. In boxing, heart and the ability to adjust are as important as the number of pushups you can do in one minute or how fast your hands are. Lyakhovich is big and has power in both hands, plus he took the jab of Guinn's away and Guinn was clueless about what to do about it. In my opinion, Guinn is extremely limited. He does own above average punching power and a good beard, but will never sniff serious consideration as a top ten heavyweight.

MJ

MJ

I agree with what you said with respect to heart and the ability to adjust. The only point I was making, in the parenthesis, was my opinion that Guinn had better technique. Unfortunately better technique doesn't get you far if you aren’t mentally tough and able to adjust. So your point is right on the mark.

[CONN CHRIS]

Thanks Rocco, I hope that you can continue these, I am really enjoying them.

[IceTea]

Samuel Peter HW

[CONN CHRIS]

Ansell Baba Adams

16(7)-18-2 (1944-1956)

Adams, a journeyman from Trinidad and Tobago fought mainly in his homeland and then in Europe. Although he had no outstanding wins, Adams did take Cuban Omelio Agramonte into the eighth round and lost a decision to future Heavyweight Champ Ingemar Johansson.

[CONN CHRIS]

Mohamed Afonso

30(12)-14-2 (1963-1978)

Afonso fought out of Africa thoughout his career, fighting only in South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and his native Zimbabwe. A boxer with limited power, Afonso was only stopped twice in his career. One stoppage came at the age of 43 in his final bout as he attempted to regain the Rhodesian Heavyweight title that he had held earlier in his career.

[CONN CHRIS]

Dick Matthews

28(27)-5-1 (1882-1892)

Matthews was born in San Bernadino, CA in 1858 but began boxing professionally in Australia in 1882. After three victories in three years there, he hopped over to New Zealand and took the New Zealand Heavyweight title from Jim Pettengell (3-3-0). Bolstered by the belt that he won, Matthews increased his activity level and fought 10 fights in New Zealand in 1885, all victories; defending his title twice.

1886 saw Matthews retun to American soil where he fought 3 bouts around the San Francisco area picking up the Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title as well as two of his five career losses. 1887 found him back in New Zealand successfully defending his title three more times. Matthews claim to the New Zealand title ended in 1888 with a fourth round knock out at the hands of Harry Laing. The rematch ended in a TKO with police breaking up the fight.

The last four years of Matthews career before his death in 1893 (apparently, shot dead while tending bar in California) saw him do a bit of globe trotting picking fights with patsies in New Zealand, Jamaica and finally Colorado.


EDIT: If you download the file, switch him from lefty to righty - sorry about that

[CONN CHRIS]

Piet van der Veer

33(24)-14-8

van der Veer's career was one of contrasts. From 1919 to April of 1923 Piet piled up a 28-1-1 record in the Netherlands, won the Dutch Heavyweight Title and defended it once. In May of 1923, he stepped up to fight Erminio Spalla of Italy for the European Title and lost a twenty round decision. He then went 2-2-1 with bouts in England and one back home in Holland before taking on Spalla in rematch for the European Title. The results were the same with van der Veer losing another twenty round decision to the Italian.

From 1924 to 1926, van der Veer fought all over Europe collecting a 3-1-5 record with mostly ten to fifteen round decisions. Then he seemed to settle into fighting wholey unimpressive opponents in Germany but inexplicably lost the final ten bouts of his till-then rather succesful career. Oddly enough, he was given another European Title shot in 1930 despite his string of losses. His skills were obviously exhausted as he suffered a second round knock out to Pierre Charles in Belgium.

[CONN CHRIS]

The only Japanese Heavyweight title bout took place on May 04, 1957 in Tokyo</ST1's Kyobashi Hall. The challengers for the crown were Hometown favorite and <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com[img] /><st1:date Month=[/img]May 04, 1957</st1:date>, the first and only Japanese Heavyweight title bout took place at <st1:City><ST1Tokyo</ST1</st1:City> native Noburo Kataoka weighing 176.25 pounds and Yutaka Nakagoshi weighing in at 188.25 pounds.<O</O
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This was the pro debut for both men and even more strangely, the only pro fight for both. Kataoka did not disappoint the hometown crowd scoring a 10 round decision win and promptly retiring as the only Japanese Heavyweight Champion. (and an undefeated one at that!)


Note:

I made these ratings such that niether fighter is very good. I tested them with nothing but 10 round matches and Kataoka wins more than 85% of the bouts by decision. I have scoured the web to no avail in trying to find out more about this fight. There may be an interesting story behind it. Please let me know if you know anything about it.

Cheers

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Mohamed Afonso

30(12)-14-2 (1963-1978)

Afonso fought out of Africa thoughout his career, fighting only in South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and his native Zimbabwe. A boxer with limited power, Afonso was only stopped twice in his career. One stoppage came at the age of 43 in his final bout as he attempted to regain the Rhodesian Heavyweight title that he had held earlier in his career.

Nice addition for later in my 67 replay Chris!

Rocco

[CONN CHRIS]

I will be interested to see if you have any changes to make Rocco, looking forward to it!


Chris

[CONN CHRIS]

Alex Miroshnichenko

Hometown - Kostnai, Kazakhstan

21(15)-1-0

Microshnichenko held the Russian Heavyweight Title and was a perfect 21-0-0 before being TKO'd by Oleg Maskaev in his professional debut. Although his pro career was forgettable, Alex had a distinguished amateur career. Miroshnichenko won a bronze medal in Seoul, medaled in the European Championships and the World Cup (twice each), and was a three-time Soviet champion.

He died in 2003, falling nine flights of stairs in his hometown. Rumors initially surfaced that his death was related to his testimony in the trial of a local judge but police later ruled his death accidental.


A nickle and a cup-o-joe to anyone that can find a picture of Miroshnichenko

Cheers

[CONN CHRIS]

Harry Laing (1885-1894)

Born - Blenheim, New Zealand

33(32)-1-3 (5 NC)

Laing was an early fighter in both Australia and New Zealand. He holds wins over Joe Goddard, Dick Matthews and Starlight Rollins. He held the New Zealand and Australian Heavyweight belts at various times and suffered only one defeat, a sixth round KO to Paddy Slavin.

Laing died young at the age of 33 only three months after an exhibition bout with down under boxing pioneer Larry Foley.


This is the fellow that took the New Zealand title from Dick Matthews (who I rated earlier). He died shortly after his last bout, but I have not been able to locate any information on the cause. I did find a NZ police report from 1888 that mentioned Mr. Laing in connection with a robbery, the police dropped the matter as they simply considered it a case of two thugs squabbling with each other.

If anyone has more information or a picture of Harry Laing I would love to hear about it.

Cheers

[jofre]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Harry Laing (1885-1894)

If anyone has more information or a picture of Harry Laing I would love to hear about it.

IBRO boxing historian Mike Attree did a lot of research on Laing:

Harry Laing 1884-1894

BORN : 1861; Blenheim, New Zealand
(Early sources reported 1862; New Zealand)
DIED : April 12 1894; Fordell, New Zealand (railway accident)
HEIGHT : 5-9 (some sources report 5-11)
WEIGHT : 176-185 lbs
COMMENTS: Laing was a former Australian Heavyweight Champion and former
New Zealand Heavyweight Champion; His chest measured 40 inches;
The "New Zealand Referee" newspaper (5/11/1888) reported that
Laing was said to be a half-caste Maori; however, a report states
Laing's mother was born in Tasmania - a European - and his father
was a half caste or Spanish Mulatto; It seems that Laing had not
one atom of Maori blood.
Apr 11 -Laing was severely injured in a railway accident at
Fordell; Both legs were severed; He died at 12:45 a.m.
on April 12

[CONN CHRIS]

Gawie de Klerk (1956-1961)

Born - Pretoria, South Africa

20(14)-6-0

de Klerk was a South African slugger that had difficulty beyond his hometown market. Although he was relatively succesful in Johannesburg, his only trip out of Africa ended in a fifth round TKO to Henry Cooper for the Commonwealth Heavyweight Title in 1959.


As always, pictures or comments are welcome.

Thanks for the information on Laing Jofre! That sounds like a horific end.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

01/17/67 Tuesday
Houston, TX, USA
Dave Zyglewicz – HW (12-0-0) vs. Charlie Hall – LHW (6-29-3)

I posted Ziggy some time early in this HW Thread.
Dave Zyglewicz - Rating 2 USA
Heavyweight 1965-70

Charlie Hall - Rating 1 USA
Light Heavyweight 1961-72
6 wins / 37 losses / 3 draws / 3 KO

Hometown: Phoenix, AZ

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

There's actually a number of guys who've popped up in the TB game. Hall fought and lost 3 times to Johnny Featherman, drew once with Bobby Rascon and lost twice to him. He lost to Andy Kendall, Archie Ray, Gary Bates, Sonny King, drew with Billy Marsh, lost consecutive fights to Tony Longoria, then lost to Eddie Cotton, Dave Zyglewicz, Tony Alongi, and Pedro Lovell.

Some other guys he fought with decent looking records included losses to MW-Gene Bryant(35-28-6,13), MW-Tony Vlenti(28-5-1,21),fought and lost twice to LHW-Tony Montano(49-32-3,18), the second time in August, 1968 for the Arizona State Light Heavyweight Title. Hall lost twice to MW=George Wright(20-3-1,16) and at the end of his career he lost to LHW-Rudy Rodriguez(20-17-6,9), HW=Fred Askew(20-15-2,11), and LHW-Jerry Evans(28-9-1,19). After defeating by 5th round KO a Roosevelt Dyer(1-3-1) in August 1965, Hall went 0-17-2 the rest of his career! The guy fought some decent opponents, he just couldn't beat any of them. The combined career records of the 6 fighters he defeated was 6-11-1,1KO!! One of those, a Leslie Grubbs accounted for a 5-3-0,1 portion of that.

The fight...
Ziggy is the current Texas State HW Champion having won the title in his 4th career fight back in November 1965 defeating Ray Martin. He then successfully defended the title against Martin, Bob Simmons and most recently against Sonny Moore in July 1966. His last two fights non title fights, KO wins over Ray Vega and Archie Ray. Coming into this fight against Zyglewicz, you wouldn’t look to give Charlie Hall much of a chance. This guy Hall just plain is not any good though he keeps drawing some interesting opponents . His most recent fights being a KO loss and an 8 round decision loss to Tony (Kid) Longoria and just back in mid December, 1966 he was KO’d in the first round by Eddie Cotton. Hall has a weak chin and he just did not stand a chance against Zyglewicz as Ziggy floored Hall in the 2nd round for a KO victory at the 2:59 mark of the 2nd round.
Our replay turned out much the same way. Both fighters come out swinging with Hall actually managing to land a couple solid punches from a flurry of swings and jabs. Zyglewicz though is the far more effective puncher landing crosses, hooks, jabs and combinations, the whole array of punches. In the end, Ziggy out points Hall 20-2 in the first round. The second round starts much like the first with Hall managing to land a couple early punches but Ziggy quickly counters those with Dave getting the better of a combination of punches thrown by each boxer. All of a sudden though, Ziggy lands a quick hard hook that catches Hall perfectly and drops Hall to the canvas and he doesn’t make it back up. Dave Zyglewicz scores the KO victory at the 1:39 mark of the 2nd round. Just a minute and 20 seconds off the real thing back in 67!

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Here's two guys we won't actually see till a little later in the replay, but I'd rated them while I was working on my Florentino Fernandez ratings and Charlie Hall, so I figured I'd go ahead and post them.

Lou Howard - Rating 1 USA
LIght Heavyweight 1963-74
8 wins / 31 losses / 1 draw / 5 KO

Hometown: Miami, FL

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Howard was stopped 25 times in his 31 losses, 23 by knockout! HOw or why for that matter did this guy stay in the ring so long. He had no wins against any one with any kind of significant record to them. Best looking opponent would probably have to be a middleweight, Ray Lavarro who was 12-12-3,2KO in his career. Howard fought and defeated Lavarro in a 6 round decision in his 2nd career fight. Lavarro was 7-2-1 at the time. Howard then KO'd a Ken Jones in the 2nd round in his 3rd fight to put his record at 2-1-0. Downhill after that as he then lost his next 8 fights. He did fight twice against Florentino Fernandez when Fernandez late in his career was trying to make a go at it in the Light Heavy ranks. Howard lost the first fight by TKO in the 4th and then after fighting a 6 round draw with LHW Eddie Bailey(10-9-4,5), Howard was KO'd in the 4th in the 2nd fight against Florentino. His very last career fight he was Ko'd in the 5th by Mike Koranicki(27-9-2,15).

Some other opponents with respectable looking at least careers, a KO loss to Herman Dixon(26-35-6,13), a 1st round KO to Jimmy Ralston(19-1-1,13), a 2nd round KO to Eddie Talhami(24-12-1,17), 2nd round KO loss to John Hudgins(15-22-5,12), Two losses to Randy Clark(13-1-0,7) and a KO loss to Veronon McIntosh(15-22-1,13).



Tony (Kid) Longoria - USA Rating 1
Heavyweight 1966-69
20 wins / 1 loss / 3 draws / 18 KO


Longoria fought a lot of glass chins compiling those 18 knockouts. He KO'd Roberto Davila in 1st round in 1966 and Floyd Joiner in 7th round in 1967 on his way to building a 20-0-3 record against otherwise nobodies. Some of the others were Charlie Hall(6-37-3,3), Tony Anchondo(3-15-0,0), Alonzo Harris(7-20-6,3), Sam Wyatt(7-7-2,1), Marty Franklin(11-14-2,2), Roy Rogers(8-5-1,4), Joe Murphy Goodwin(0-13-0,0), Clarence Boon(4-19-0,3), Max Martinez(7-9-0,2), Willis Earls(12-14-3,7), and Sonny King(5-5-0,3) to name any of the opponents with any kind of record. Then in March 1969 he goes up against Memphis Al Jones who is sporting a 3-16-2 record at the time. Jones KO's Longoria in the 2nd round ending Tony's career.

A nice looking record over a 3 year period, until you look at what he fought.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

01/17/67 Tuesday
Houston, TX, USA
Karl Zurheide – LHW (13-1-0) vs. Cassius Clay Scott – LHW (2-5-0)

Karl Zurheide - Rating 3 USA
LIght Heavyweight 1964-79
39 wins / 29 losses / 5 draws / 9 KO

Hometown: Fond du Lac, WI

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Fighting predominantly out of Texas, especially in Houston from 1964 thru October 1968 against the usual array of local club fighters, Zurheide compiled an impressive 24-3-0,8KO record. The best looking of his opponents during that time included a wins over Billy Marsh, Tommy Sims(33-36-4,13) three times, Benny Lee Bowser(19-16-3,15) and then finally in Oct. 1968, a UD win over Eddie Talhami(24-12-1,17). At this time, Zurheide started traveling and fighting more out of Texas and meeting a better stable of opponents.

Over the next 3 years, Karl's record reflected the better competition he was meeting going only 7-7-2,0KO through November 1971. Included in those fights were losses to Ron Marsh, Vincente Rondon, Jimmy Dupree and Ray Anderson. At this time from December 1971 through the remainder of his career, Zurheide fought a large number of fights against many of the upper level LHW's of the 1970's, who are represented in this game. Unfortunately, the results showed through that Zurheide was a journeyman at best who could not stand in the ring against the middle and upper echelon as he went a dismal 8-1903,1KO the rest of his career. During that time he was stopped 11 of the 14 times he was KO/TKO'd in a fight.

The wins were few, twice beating Kosie Smith, Harold Carter, Gary Summerhays, Andy Kendall with draws against Summerhays, and Carter. The losses were many including twice to Pierre Fourie, Johnny Frankham, Eddie Jones, Lonnie Bennett, Kendall, Victor Galindez, Mike Quarry twice, Domenico Adinolfi, Billy Douglas, Bobby Cassidy, Mate Parlov, Tony Mundine, Alvaro Lopez, Marvin Camel, Pat Cuillo and finally Murray Sutherland.


Cassius Clay Scott - Rating 1 USA
Light Heavyweight 1965-71
5 wins / 19 losses / 0 draws / 2 KO

Hometown: New Orleans, LA

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Well, he did fight Karl Zurheide, Brian Kelly twice and Lonnie Bennett loosing all those fights. He may have had the name, but definetly did not have the talent!

The fight...
Both of these Light Heavies are early on in their careers but going in opposite directions. Zurheide after starting out his career 12-0 is looking to continue rebounding from his first loss suffered in November 1966 against Bobby Dennard. Karl climbed back into the ring the next month and managed to knock out Willie Lee in the 2nd round for win number 13. Scott’s career is not going much where very fast. He’s lost his last 3 fights, the most recent, a 6 round decision loss to Mark Tessman, who is 5-0-0 on his way to a 32-4-0 career. This was a scheduled 6 rounder between Zurheide and Scott here in Houston in 1967. It ended up going the full 6 with Zurheide getting win number 14 with a decision.
The replay looked like maybe it would go the full 6 also but with Zurheide controlling the fight for the most part. Through the first 4 rounds Karl was up on all 3 judges cards, 40-36, 39-37, 39-37. In the 5th round he started to pour on Scott, banging away at both the body and head. With about a ½ minute to go in the 5th, Scott was just trying to hang on and get through to the bell and back to the corner, though up till then Karl had not been able to hurt Scott enough to put him down. Then with about 15 seconds left in the 5th, Zurheide lands a double left, one to the head and one to the body. The one to the head opens up a nasty gash over Scotts eye and immediately there’s blood pouring from it covering Scott’s face. The referee stops the fight and motions Scott to a corner for the ring doctor to look at his cut eye. As the doctor is looking at Scott, Cassius is pleading his case to let the fight go on, but, the doc’s not buying it. That’s it, the referee is calling it off. Winner by TKO at the 2:49 mark of the 5th round, Karl Zurheide.!

[Rocco Del Sesto]

01/17/67 Tuesday
Houston, TX, USA
Mark Tessman – LHW (6-0-0) vs. Al Franklin – LHW (0-1-0)

Mark Tessman - Rating 6 USA
Light Heavyweight 1966-72

Tessman is already in the game. I've included a file with some bio info added.
32 wins / 4 losses / 0 draws / 9 KO

Hometown: Houston, TX

Except for a fight against Gene Romero in New Orleans and against Richie Smith in Miami Beach, Tessman compiled a 23-0-0,6KO record in his native Texas over a 2-1/2 year period. Some of the biggest names in those wins were over Tommy Sims, Von Clay, Tony Montano, Milo Calhoun, Billy Marsh and Marlon Connor. Then in December 1968 he went into the ring against veteran fighter Henry Hank. Hank stopped Tessman in the 6th round after Tessman suffered a severly cut eyelid.

Tessman managed to come back the next month and win 10 round decisions over Bobby Rascon, Eddie Talhami(twice), Roy(Cookie) Wallace and then Hank in a rematch in June 1969. He followed the second Hank fight with knockouts of a couple local Texas fighters to set Tessman up with a 30-1-0 record and a shot at the WBC/WBA Light Heavyweight Title against Bob Foster in June 1970. The scheduled 15 round fight lasted until the 10th round when it was stopped for a TKO victory for Foster.

Heading back to his hometown Houston, Texas, Tessman atfter an almost 2 year layoff came back to win a couple local fights then lost a 10 round decision to Eddie Owens before traveling to Johannesburg, South Africa in July 1972 to take on Pierre Fourie. Fourie won the 10 round decision and Tessman hung up the gloves after that.


Al Franklin - Rating 1 USA
Light Heavyweight 1966-70
2 wins / 6 losses / 0 draws / 1 KO

Hometown: Pontchatula, LA

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Boxrec has him listed at 177lbs when he fought HW-Leroy Caldwell in his last career fight in April 1970, thus has him listed as a Heavyweight. I've rated him as a Light Heavy which is what he appeared to fight as mostly by the opponents he faced. He lost his first 5 fights, a 6 round decision to MW-Roger Watkins(9-5-0,4), a 6 and then a 10 round decisions to Mark Tessman, then two 6 round decision losses to Middleweight Bobby (Songbird) Williams(16-27-0,6). Franklin finally broke through with a win against LHW-Dave Burch(16-9-0,10), then deated Roger Watkins in a rematch in September 1968 by 3rd round KO. Franklin didn't fight then again till that one fight against Caldwell in 1970.

The fight....
Not much to write here..
Mark Tessman’s last fight was a 6 round decision over Cassius Clay Scott to run his record to 6-0. Franklin fought his first professional bout in September the previous year loosing a 6 round decision to middleweight Roger Watkins. This 6 round bout went the full distance with Tessman winning the decision.
Our replay went the full 6 rounds also. Tessman dominated the first 3 rounds then sort of let up in the 4th letting Franklin stage a bit of a comeback to win the 4th round. Tessman though connected enough in the final two rounds to give him the UD victory with a 59-55 score on all three judges cards. Not a much exciting to write about in this fight.