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Letterlough Struggles to Six Round Draw in MA
Dorchester, MA, Nov. 15 - Cruiserweight Julian Letterlough's fall from prominence continued tonight at the Dorchester National Guard Armory in Boston as he fought to a draw with John Douglas, who now owns a 2-8-3 (1 Ko) record. The judges scored the fight 58-57 for "Mr. KO" as Letterlough is known, 58-56 for Douglas and 57-57. When asked if he thought he won the fight, Letterlough would only say, "I was disappointed." For the first two rounds, Letterlough fought lethargically and was beaten to the punch by Douglas. One good left hook from Letterlough was not enough to offset the points scored by the more active Douglas. As the fight progressed, however, Letterlough picked up the pace and by round three he had Douglas pinned against the ropes. The next round, Letterlough, recognized by the boxing world for his punching power, continued his onslaught, knocking out the mouthpiece of Douglas with a big right hand. Soon after, the underdog caught his biggest break of the night when referee Richard Flaherty decided to stop the heated action to retrieve Douglas' mouthpiece. This break gave him ample time to recover and survive the round. Douglas took advantage of his fortune by reclaiming control of the action in the fifth round and equaling Letterlough in a slugfest during the last minute of that round. Unfortunately, the sixth and deciding round was uneventful and indecisive. Unlike Letterlough, who was humble and complimented his opponent after the fight, Douglas said, "I feel like I wanted to fight four guys at one time . . . because that was nothing." Letterlough said that if the fight had gone longer he thought he would have won because his body shots would have taken effect and Douglas would have tired. Undefeated junior middleweight Jason LeHoullier of Portland, Maine put on the most impressive performance of the evening in the co-feature with his six round unanimous decision victory over crowd favorite Tommy Attardo. In the first round, Attardo (10-12, 2 KOs) wounded the tiger in LeHoullier with a crisp left-right combination and paid for it in return. Although Le Houllier was at first staggered, the combination seemed to wake him up. He took the fight to Attardo from that point on. Attardo's contingent outside the ring pleaded for their fighter to go to the body, but every time he did so, LeHoullier (6-0, 4 KOs) socked him with a left hook. The rest of the time, LeHoullier landed everything else. All three judges scored the fight 59-55 in favor of Le Houllier. On an undercard dominated by Irish American fighters from Boston, lightweight Ed McAloney ran his record to 12-5 (5 KOs) by stopping Bilali Burns in two rounds. Burns, who somehow seemed to run out of gas in the first round, received a standing eight count from Flaherty in the second round. Flaherty stopped the fight at 1:17 when Burns did not respond appropriately to his questions. Stanford Brisbone put on the most entertaining performance of the evening in a losing cause. Referee Ed Fitzgerald stopped the fight to warn Brisbone for hitting during a break in the first round and promptly disqualified the fighter when he threw a tantrum over the reprimand. A flabby cruiserweight, Brisbone taunted and threatened the crowd in a WWF exit scene, as his opponent Christopher Tillman was awarded the odd victory in his professional debut.
Light heavyweight Tommy Fitzgerald of South Boston celebrated another debut by dominating his opponent Alterek Porterfield before knocking him out with a short left hook at 2:38 of round two. |
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