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  Portland, Oregon
Thursday, Jan. 30, 03
By Katherine Dunn

Promoter: Golden Boy Promotions
Sponsored by Spirit Mountain Casino

Referees: Jim Erickson, Mike Fisher, Dave Hagen
Judges: Greg Baker, Joe Bonaventura, Jim Howard

5,355 in attendance.

In the 10 round heavyweight main event, Jeremy Williams, 36-4, 32 KO’s (232 lbs), of Long Beach, CA, fought to a majority draw with Al "Ice" Cole, 32-11, 16 KO’s ( 231 lbs), of Newark, New Jersey. One judge called it 96-94 for Williams, the other two saw it as 95-95.

The originally advertised main was a potential leatherfest between bantamweight Hispanics. When this replacement bout was announced earlier in the week, I was feeling mournful for poor Al Cole, who’s been in the blue losing zones for a long time and is 38 years old.
 
Cole was a spritely and successful IBF champ as a cruiserweight, but his 1996 losing debut as a heavyweight against Tim Witherspoon tipped him onto the razorblade bannister.

Jeremy Williams, on the other hand, started out as a cosseted heavyweight tomato stomper with the valuable palid complexion and a muscle-popping physique.

His rare encounters with quality opposition ended badly. Henry Akinwande knocked him out in 3. Williams then reverted to the vegetable diet until his humiliating fifth round stoppage by a guy known as the "Danish Pastry," Brian Nielsen in 2000.

But now, at 31, with four victories over indifferent opposition in the last year, Williams is under the wing of promoter Cedric Kushner and an obvious favorite to win.

In the Rose Garden on Thursday night, both guys needed sympathy but what they mostly got was boos. Williams seemed slow and puzzled through the early rounds.

His glorious physique has sagged and he just blinked and swallowed the deliberate jabs and occasional combos from Al Cole. By the fourth, a plodding Williams was cut under the left eye and Cole was actually moving pretty well.

In the fifth Williams took to over hand rights followed by grappling and Cole’s mouth began to bleed. In the sixth Williams whined repeatedly to the ref about low blows and head butts, some of which were probably real. The tiring Cole was warned for hanging on.

In the seventh Williams danced and ran with Cole in slogging pursuit, and the eight was all grappling as Cole’s fatigue became more obvious. The crowd was unimpressed with this whole sad performance and when Williams hit Cole low at the end of the eighth he set off a storm of boos that persisted and revived easily through the rest of the fight. Although Williams seemed heartened and more confident in the ninth, he didn’t accomplish much. The tenth was a slow rhino waltz of the exhausted and the boos sounded all the way to the final bell. A rough crowd six big beers into the evening.

n the six-round semi-main, Jose "Tony" Martinez, now 12-2-2, 7 KO’s (153 1/2 lbs) of Portland won a
unanimous decision over Ron Pasek, now 12-20-3, 7 KO’s (153 lbs), of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The judges scores were 60-54, 59-55, 59-55. Word is this was a last ring outing for the formerly scrappy Pasek.

Martinez hadn’t fought in eight months and looked rusty-- not his usual crispy and feisty self—he blasted the poorly conditioned Pasek in the corners and on the ropes with no real response. Pasek has always been tougher than is quite good for him, and his head was taking on the weird swollen shapes of a rotting jack-o-lantern by the final bell. He said he was retiring last summer after a bad loss. Now he’ says he’s hanging them up for good.

The 38 year-old Pasek is a cement cutter up in Canada, with a wife and a couple of kids. But it’s thirty below right now in those regions and there’s no cement to be cut. No work. Of course you can’t run to train in that weather either, but he accepted this short notice fight.  His local cornermen say he was heart broken at his poor performance. As this is being written he’s  probably still sitting on a long-distance bus, with his neighbors looking sideways at his cuts and bruises. But he’s got a thousand U.S. dollars in his pocket. He tried to pay the cornermen after the fight, but they all refused the money. He’s a sweet guy, they say, and he was always a warrior.
 

In the four-round opener, Billy David Thompson, now 5-2,3 KO’s (168 lbs), of Lubbock, Texas won a unanimous decision over Vic Branson, now 3-4-1, 3 KO’s (169 lbs), of Willamina, Oregon. The scores were 39-38, 39-37, 39-37.

Greg Piper, now 6-1, 2 KO’s (128 1/2 lbs), of Portland, Oregon won a four-round unanimous decision
over Christian "El Kangaroo" Lopez, now 4-3, 3 KO’s (128 1/4 lbs) of Seattle, WA. The judges ruled it
39-37, 39-37, 40-36.

A four-round heavyweight match ended with Joe Gusman, now 5-0, 2 KO’s (200 lbs) winning a unanimous decision over Troy Beets, now 3-2-1, 1 KO (220 lbs) of Biloxi, Mississippi. All three judges saw it as 38-37 for Gusman


 

 
     
     
     
     
     
 

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