Dolton
Wins in Cincinnati He trained and trained for his second professional fight. It was supposed to take place four months earlier but it got put off for one reason and then another. Then just as suddenly as other fights were cancelled, Dolton got signed for a fight this past Saturday. Domonique Dolton’s second appearance in the ring came this past weekend, reportedly with just two days notice, not here in Michigan but in neighboring Ohio. On Saturday, the 18-year old Kronk Gym fighter faced David Foster (4-22-2, 3 KO) in a super middleweight bout on the Lamon Brewster-Danny Batchelder undercard at Cincinnati Gardens. Brewster’s Relentless Promotions promoted the 8-fight card. Dolton (2-0-0, 2 KO) won over the 43-year old Cincinnati native by way of TKO coming at 2:13 in the first round of a scheduled four rounder, after putting the more experienced fighter to the canvas twice. For Foster, it was his first fight in eight years and his fourth straight loss. Thanks to the hard-hitting Dolton, it was also the shortest fight of Foster’s last 21 ring appearances. Dolton’s debut came on April 4 in what was billed as the first of monthly Pro-Am cards at Detroit’s Bert’s Warehouse Theatre. His expected second fight on the May card was cancelled after his opponent reportedly became injured and cancelled. The entire pro portion of the card in June was cancelled again delaying Dolton’s second fight. As recently as two weeks ago, plans for a September fight in Ohio were in the works. Advance word of Dolton’s Saturday fight was not received. Word came today by way of Dolton’s fellow Kronk fighters Leandre White and J’Leon Love, both of whom attended the fight as did Johnathon Banks. Also
on the card, Kronk-trained Aaron Pryor, Jr (11-0-0, 8 KO) won a
third-round TKO over fellow Cincinnati-native and 2000 Olympian
Dante Craig (17-8-1, 13 KO). Craig fought at 147-lbs in the 2000
Summer games in Sydney, losing in the second round, and turning
pro half-a-year later.
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