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Fight night at the War Memorial Field in Steelton, PA.

Having covered the likes of Terence Crawford and Mago Abdusalamov on smaller club shows in Western and Central Pennsylvania, you never know where the next star or big story can develop.  

 

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Fight night
Fight night

Jason Bryant’s (JAB Promotions) professional boxing event titled "Meet Me at the 50" took place on Friday night (August 20) at the War Veterans Memorial Field in Steelton, PA.

 

The high school football stadium in the Harrisburg suburb featured four bouts (all four rounders) before a solid crowd and beneath a clear sky making the outdoor event a smooth-running success.

 

Pittsburgh’s Johnny "TTG" Spell Jr (4-0, 3 KOs) scored a mild upset over local Harrisburg lightweight Osvaldo Morales (4-2, 2 KOs) by majority decision in the main event.

 

Spell, who went the distance for the first time in his young career, boxed well from the outside and eluded Morales’ attempted onslaught by countering effectively throughout the fight.

 

After a methodical opening round, Spell hurt Morales in the second with clean right hands and a hook to the head. Morales had trouble following up as Spell created distance and used the ring effectively.

 

Morales, seemingly discouraged by the look on his face, found himself on the wrong end of a check hook early in the third and losing his third in a row on my scorecard.

 

Morales looked to have his best round in the fourth, but once again had a Spell check hook and a right uppercut-left hook combo later in the round to overcome.

 

The judges scored the fight 39-37 x 2 and an inexplicable 38-38.

 

Promoter Marshall Kauffman expressed an interest in making a fight between Spell and his boxer James Bernadin of Lancaster, PA in the near future in a potential battle of undefeated 4-0 boxers.

 

In the co-feature, popular Harrisburg boxer Canar Morrison (1-0, 1 KO) knocked out Fresno, CA junior middleweight Gladimir Jacinto (0-4) in the second round. Morrison scored his second knockdown in consecutive rounds as referee Shawn Clark (also seen in the movie Creed) called off the fight.

 

Time of the stoppage came at the 1:20 mark of the round.

 

Scranton, PA lightweight Nelson Morales (2-0) won a unanimous decision over durable MMA vet/pro boxing debutant Ronny Arana (0-1).

 

Morales boxed patiently behind his jab as he looked to solve the awkward style of Arana in the opening two rounds.

 

The second was a fairly close one and could have gone either way.

 

Morales began breaking down a bleeding Arana over the next two rounds, earning scores of 40-36 x 2 and 39-37.

 

In the opening bout, Camp Hill, PA middleweight Roudly Lolo (2-0-1, 2 KOs) stopped a game Khari Fields (0-2) of Berwick, PA in the third.

 

Lolo pulled off the first round in what was a bit of a back and forth tangle. Fields, behind a high guard, picked his shots in spurts.

 

Lolo began pressuring more with a clean assault of body punches over the next two rounds that Fields had no answer for.

 

By the 1:40 mark of the third referee Shawn Clark had seen enough, awarding the TKO win to Lolo.

 

Matchmaker Brian Dillon had the scheduled fifth fight pull out earlier in the week due to an opponents’ illness.

 

You seldom hear about the smaller shows from the media, which seemed little to non-existent on this night.

 

Having covered the likes of Terence Crawford and Mago Abdusalamov on smaller club shows in Western and Central Pennsylvania, you never know where the next star or big story can develop.

 

Promoter Jason Bryant, a former football standout, plans to come back in November for his next show in Harrisburg.

 

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