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Amir “Hardcore” Mansour won the
vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Intercontinental Heavyweight
title on Friday night, December
2, at the Dover Downs Hotel &
Casino in Dover, Delaware as he
scored a sixth round stoppage
over former world
title-challenger Epifanio
Mendoza from Columbia.
Rapidly building a reputation as
one of the most spectacular
heavyweights around, Mansour
came out in his usual
all-guns-blazing fashion in the
first round, while Mendoza boxed
defensively and tried to
counterpunch when Mansour
missed.
This pattern continued in the
second, and Mansour quickly
established that he was the
stronger of the two as Mendoza
was forced to use his legs more
than his fists.
Mansour hurt, and almost knocked
down, Mendoza in rounds three
and five, and at this point it
looked as if the end was near.
Mansour was getting stronger as
the fight progressed, while
Mendoza was clearly tiring. The
end came at 1:17 of the sixth,
when Mendoza was caught in a
corner taking several punches
without being able to offer
anything in return and his
trainer threw in the towel to
rescue his boxer.
With the victory Mansour
improved his professional record
to 16-0 (12), and continues his
quest for a world title shot in
the future. Mendoza dropped to
32-13-1 (28).
On the same night in Atlanta,
Georgia, two new WBF North
American Champions were crowned
as Paul Delgado captured the
vacant Super Welterweight title
and Tyrese Hendrix took home the
Welterweight strap on a show
promoted by Sports Fan
Properties, Shea Bailey
Promotions and Delgado Boxing
Promotions.
At the Georgia World Congress
Center´s Thomas Murphy Ballroom,
Delgado proved too classy for
veteran Ruben Galvan and scored
a shutout unanimous decision by
scores of 100-89, 100-90 and
100-90. The former
world-title-challenger is now
26-11-1 (4), and Galvan goes to
27-20-4 (10).
In a more competitive and closer
contest, at least on the
scorecards, Tyrese Hendrix was
awarded a majority decision over
tough campaigner Chris Gray.
Judge Robert Ezor had them even
at 95-95, but was overruled by
Edward Kanner and Irwin Deutsch
who had Hendrix ahead by 97-93
and 98-92 respectively.
As the new WBF North American
champion Hendrix took his
professional ledger to 21-3-1
(9), and Gray is now 13-17-1
(1).
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