Boxing
Comes to Royal Oak The latest offering from Heavy Hitter and CLIP, with the assistance of licensed promoter Ron Remus, is set for Thursday in Royal Oak. The card has changed – as they always do – and so has the venue. But the card remains mostly competitive. Darryl Cunningham (9-2-0, 4 KO) is featured in the main event facing Adrian’s Dan “Flawless” Wallace (9-4-0, 3 KO) at super middleweight. Wallace lost his last three fights – two by knockout in early rounds and one UD after eight rounds – with his last win a year ago this month. Cunningham, by contrast, has won his last two and six of his last eight with the latest a clash with Chris Grays (who appears in the co-main of the evening) in June. In the co-main event, Alexis Hloros (5-2-2, 5 KO) should have little difficulty with Chris Grays (7-15-0, 2 KO) who has lost ten of his last eleven fights. Hloros is coming off a four-win streak and impressively all five of his wins have come by way of knockout in the first or second round. Canadian Andre “Gorgeous” Gorges (1-0-0, 1 KO) has been matched with Alan Moore (1-3-0, 1 KO) of Indianapolis, whose debut was his only fight to go the distance. Two of his losses and his single win ended by TKO with his last fight a first round loss in January of this year. Moore replaces Cleveland’s Jamal Khan who had a slightly weaker record of 0-3 and fell off for reasons not reported. Tommy Simaan (2-1-0, 2 KO) is returning to the ring for the first time in more than five years to face Dustin Cooley (0-1-0) of Battle Creek. Cooley apparently impressed promoters before losing to their charge (Andre Gorges) in the first minute of Gorges’ debut in June. Simaan, 34, lost his last fight in June of ’03 to debuting Herling Lopez at Joe Louis Arena. His prior two fights both ended in his favor by way of technical knockouts in the nine months since his September 2002 debut. Pete Cantu (13-6-1, 8 KO) has won his last six ring appearances and should find no real challenge in a rematch with Jaime Castellano (4-17-0, 1 KO). The two mid-Michigan fighters fought last month in Bay City with Cantu winning by unanimous decision (as were four of his last six wins; the other two were knockouts). Castellano has lost his last three bouts with a KO victory of Marcus Olivas coming between three earlier losses. Rich “Super” Power (1-0-0, 1 KO) is scheduled to make his second ring appearance (he debuted at a June 20 Fort Wayne show, winning a second round TKO) to face Andy Coronado (0-3-0) of Muskegon. Chris Hancock (2-0-0, 1 KO), reportedly of Detroit, takes on Cleophris Glover (2-7-0, 2 KO) in a heavyweight match. Both of Hancock’s prior fights – in March and May – occurred in Memphis, Tennessee – making this his first hometown fight. While Glover’s two wins both came by knockout they were early in his pro career – his third and fourth fights – he lost his last six fights, although his April 2007 loss to Mike Jones was recently changed to a “no contest” by the Michigan Boxing Commission (before they became the Michigan Unarmed Combat Commission, which happened earlier this year). The
action happens Thursday at the Royal Oak Music Theatre, starting
at 7pm. Tickets are available at www.neptix.com or by phone at (248)
977-9067.
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