After a successful show in 2014 and the first boxing event of 2015 held in Dallas, Texas last month, The Undercard boxing show by Undercard Promotions took it’s fighters to Bossier City, Louisiana to the Diamond Jack Casino. The boxer’s train out of the Maple Avenue Boxing Gym in Dallas, Texas and their lives and training are followed on The Undercard television show. But when they get into the ring, it is all business, and on Friday night, every fighter out of the Maple Avenue Boxing Gym won his fight.
The main event was supposed to be Dallas’ “Mighty Mo” Hooker (17-0-2), but he was held out due to an injury, so precaution was taken and he was not able to fight. It was replaced by cruiserweights Steve Geffrard (10-2, 7KO’S) from Miami, Florida and Reggie Pena (6-10, 1KO) from Ocala, Florida. This battle of Floridian’s didn’t last as long as the crowd had thought and it ended by TKO of the first round after Geffrard landed a left hook to the head of Pena and the fight was stopped.
The Co-Main Event was between southpaw featherweight Frankie Agnew (3-0, 1KO) from Chicago, Illinois and Bruce McDana and it went the full six rounds in an action packed duel of defense against offense. The offense coming from the leather throwing Agnew and the defense of McDana who kept his gloves in front of his face as they both slugged it out in the middle of the ring. McDana occasionally landed a punch or two, but it was Agnew who consistently went to the body as he attempted to make the hands of McDana drop so he could land to the head. This was the first six round fight for Agnew, and he went on to win by unanimous decision. 60-54, 59-55, 59-55.
Featherweight Carlos Adame, Jr (3-0, 2 KO’s) from Dallas, Texas started this fight just as he left off from his last fight on the Undercard. That is, with precise and accurate punches as he stalked Joe Estrada (0-3) from Kearney, Missouri around the ring in the first round. Kearney stood in his corner after the first round and stared down Adame as he was still getting instructions from his corner as if he had something to prove. After the bell sounded for the second round, the southpaw Adame came rushing out of the corner as he went after Estrada and started landing lots of leather. I could hear instructions from Adame’s corner telling him to “box, box.” It wasn’t long after that when the “Ledbetter Kid” landed a crushing left hand to the body of Kearney and he went down in the corner, wincing in pain. It looked like he was going to get up as he was being counted out, and he did, but it was too late, and the referee stopped the fight. The official time of the TKO was 1:07 of the second round.
In the lightweight division, Raul Cespedes (1-0, 1KO) from Las Vegas made his debut fight against Brian Raglin and he didn’t take long to show the crowd what he had. After feeling each other out, Cespedes landed a quick left hook to the head of Raglin and met the canvas. After the count, Cespedes began to pound Raglin on the ropes and the fight was stopped. The referee stopped the action at 1:27 of the first round..
Super featherweight Fernando Garcia (2-0) from Dallas, Texas took on the brave but over matched Marco Alcaraz (0-4) from Greenville, Texas. Garcia was not able to fight in his last fight because of an injury, but there were no signs of it in this fight. In the first round, he came out popping his jab as he backed up Alcaraz around the ring. In the second round, Garcia threw everything but the kitchen sink on Alcarez and he had him on wobbly legs and almost off his feet, but Alcarez survived and made it to the bell. Alcarez stood his ground, but he took so many punches in the third round, both his eyes were swelling and closing up. The fight probably should have been stopped at this point, but it continued into the fourth as Garcia continued to batter Alcarez around the ring. Garcia went on to win by unanimous decision and the cards read 40-36, 40-36, 40-35.
In the super middleweight division, Alberto Fundora (5-0) from Coachella, California had short work in his fight against local fighter Philip Lars from Shreveport, Louisiana. In his last fight on the undercard, Fundora went the full four rounds, but on Friday night he used the power in his right hand to finish off Lars. Although Fundora has a great jab and height advantage on opponents, in this fight he decided to fight on the inside early in the round as they both went toe to toe. Fundora then got Lars in the corner and landed a lightning left hook to the body that put Lars on one knee. Shortly after Lars took the count, Fundora jumped on him on the ropes and landed a stiff right hand that put him on the canvas. The official stoppage was at 2:23 of the first round and Fundora remains undefeated.
In one of the shortest fights of the evening, super welterweight Marco “El Guero” Vazquez, Jr. (2-0, 2 KO’S) took on DeMarcus Oatman in his debut fight. Vazquez came out snapping his jab in the first round and then landed a combination to the head of Oatman that made him backpedal. Vazquez kept up the pressure as Oatman held his ground early in the round, until Vazquez forced him on the ropes and landed a huge right cross that sent his opponent to the canvas. He hit Oatman so hard, it took him several minutes before he could get to his feet and onto the stool in his corner. The official time of the knockout was 2:50 of the first round.
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