Results from Monroe; Redinksi Impresses
Posted: February 10, 2008
By: Lindy Lindell

Feb 9, Monroe Community College: The evening was kicked off with a celebration commemorating Monroe's Joe Giarmo's boxing club. With the 92-year-old Joe present (and spry as ever), a dozen former boxers, one by one, indicated when they boxed for Joe. These included a senior citizen who first boxed for Joe in 1946 to the promoter of the show, Todd Riggs.

Seventeen generally-lively bouts pitted mostly youngsters. The obvious exception to this was the matching of 59-year-old Dave Burnette with the late-60s Paul Soucy, who had boxed just the week before in Pontiac on Dale Grable's show there. Soucy, who lost on Grable's show ("They took it from me because they could," claimed
Paul. "I can't get the guy to fight me outside of Pontiac."), pulled out a win over Burnette, even though Soucy was south of Burnette's weight class by at least two divisions.

Joe's Boxing's Steve Redinski (left) takes the fight to Ohio's Abel Flores in his first fight over the weekend in Monroe and, doing so, impressed veteran boxing writer Lindy Lindell. Photo credit: Bob Ryder.

In a featured bout involving his first amateur contest, Steve Redinski of Joe's Boxing Club scored a solid win over the then 3-0 Abel Flores of Ohio's Defiance Boxing Club. Featuring a straight right and chopping left hooks, Redinski, fighting in the 165-pound classification, showed uncommon skill for a novice.

The results:

152 pounds: Jerin Banks, Spyders, W3, Diamond Mitchell, IBC.
60 pounds: Donny Wades, Joe's, W3 Ravon Williams, Just Us.
130 pounds: Jocylin Guenette, Windsor Boxing Club, W3 Taylor Carroll, Joe's.
70 pounds: Leon Lawson, FWC Burston, W3 Cole Clellan, Defiance.
65 pounds: Daz Watkins, Azteca, W3 Oakley Boring, Joe's.
70 pounds: Alex Barrientes, Defiance, W3 Brandon Wilcox, Azteca.
125 pounds: Allisa Mollone, Defiance, W3 Ariele Casto, ALCC
70 pounds: Eddie Dean, FWC Burston, W3 Dylon Minton, Joe's.
132 pounds: Tim Matthews, IBC, W3 Aron Agustin, Infinity BC.
165 pounds: Jason Bomia, Joe's, W3 Eriberton Guadardo, SW Detroit.
119 pounds: Albert Bell, Central City, W3 Alex Aguilar, SW Detroit.
Seniors: Paul Soucy, Dynamic, W3 Dave Burnette, Joe's.
165 pounds: Willie Fortune, Infinity, W3 Roy Barringer, Just Us.
125 pounds: Lorenzo Pippens, Joe's, RSC2 Deolo Bellhamy, Big Dog.
165 pounds: Shelby Woloszyk, Big Dog, RSC1 Octavio Guadardo, SW Detroit.
Hwt.: Charles Miller, Defiance, W3 Darnae Petty, IBC.
165 pounds: Steve Redinski, Joe's, W3 Abel Flores, Defiance.

Lindell's Fight of the Night: Jocylin Guenette v. Taylor Carroll.

Lindell's Fighter of the Night: Steve Redinski.