Boxing | Mary Spencer wins her fight in 23 seconds

(Montreal) Mary Spencer said she was nervous before her first fight on Montreal soil with her new promoter, Eye of the Tiger Management. It didn’t appear. At least for the 23 seconds that the confrontation lasted.

Posted at 8:01 p.m.

Frederic Daigle
The Canadian Press

Spencer (4-0, 3 KOs) solidly hosted Mexican Beatriz Aguilar (7-7-1, 1 KOs) as soon as the bell rang with a combination of hooks to the body that knocked her out. forced her to let her guard down. He took it badly, because the adopted Montrealer served her a solid left hook to the head, which sent the super-welterweight to the ground.

Referee Junior Padulo didn’t even deign to give Aguilar an eight count, immediately meaning that everyone’s afternoon of work in the Casino de Montreal ring had come to an end.

Spencer had indicated during Tuesday’s public practice that she wanted to quickly climb the division ladder in order to compete with the champions at 147 or 154 pounds. EOTTM will have to find him a little more solid opponents, however: Aguilar did not seem to be physically in the same league as Spencer, in impeccable form and whose amateur record is extremely well filled with three world titles and a gold medal. gold at the Pan American Games.

Beaudoin remains undefeated

Leila Beaudoin (5-0, 1 K. – O.) kept her perfect record by beating Mexican Estefania Gonzalez Franco (2-5) by unanimous decision.

The super feather of Quebec obtained scores of 60-54 and 58-56 (twice) following this fiercely contested six-round fight.

Beaudoin showed great speed and precision far superior to the Mexican, whose best shot of the evening was a headbutt to Beaudoin’s left brow bone in the fourth round. Cut, the boxer was able to continue her work without being bored.

Casually, in less than 24 hours, three women’s professional boxing fights were presented in Quebec after Marie-Pier Houle’s victory the day before, at the Groupe Yvon Michel gala in Trois-Rivières, a sign that the sport is doing well. well in the Belle Province.

Gaumont keeps its file intact

Alexandre Gaumont (4-0, 2 K. – O.) had to work hard, but he managed to keep his record intact by winning by unanimous decision ahead of Mexican Edgar Romero Mora (11-13-3, 8 K .–O.).

The middleweight came up against a tough opponent, who did not flinch before the powerful assaults of the Buckingham pugilist, in addition to responding almost blow for blow to everything the Quebecer threw at him.

The three judges gave all rounds to Gaumont, who thus received three perfect marks of 40-36.

As a curtain raiser, super-welterweight Christopher Guerrero (3-0, 1 KO) kept his perfect record against Mexican Marco Chino Villa (3-6). At the end of the four rounds of this fight, Guerrero obtained the favor of the three judges 39-37 to sign this victory by unanimous decision. It will surely be a formative fight for the Montrealer, who was pinched on a few occasions by the power shots of Chino Villa.

Finally, super-welterweight Joshua Frazer (3-0, 3 K. – O.) did not have too much trouble getting rid of Luis Granados Gonzalez (4-9-1, 2 K. – O. ). The Ontario from the United Boxing team scored a third K. – O. in as many outings after only 1: 57 of action.


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