WEIGHTS FROM TACHI CASINO
By Ed de la Vega, DDS
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 21 Aug 2008
Lemoore, CA:- Participants on the Goossen-Tutor/Tachi Casino promotions scheduled for tomorrow evening mostly made weight.
Ana Julaton, the pride of the Philippines and the Hollywood Wildcard Gym and her opponent from the Dominican Republic via New York, Dominga Oliva both easily made weight. Julaton came at 121.2 pounds while Oliva was 120 lbs.
Julaton and Oliva are fighting an 8 rounder for the vacant WBC International Women?s Super bantamweight title.
As of this writing, which is 3 hours past the scheduled 2:00 PM weigh-in, the fighters on the main event, heavyweights Manuel ?El Toro? Quezada of Wasco, California and Andrew Greeley of Monroe, Louisiana are not yet at the venue and thus we have no weight results to report. Those in the know indicated that both fighters will step on the scales whenever they get to the venue.
One of the participants from the cruisherweight division who was scheduled to fight a 10 rounder was slightly overweight. Galen Brown of St. Joseph, Missouri came in at 202.6 , thus he was .6 pounds overweight. His opponent Dewey Cooper of Las Vegas, Nevada however made the weight limit. He was 195 lbs.
The rest of the weigh-in results are:
Carina ?La Reina? Moreno ( Watsonville, CA) 104.4 lbs. Her opponent Yahira Martinez (Puerto Rico) ? 107.8 lbs.
Moreno and Martinez are fighting for 10 rounds for the WBC\WIBA Women?s Minimum weight championship.
Mike Dallas, Jr (Bakersfield, CA) 140.2 lbs vs. James Helms (Cincinnati, OH) 141.4 lbs
Joaquin Marquez (Madera, CA) 160.6 lbs. vs. Loren Myers (Fresno, CA) 165 lbs.
James Ventry (Niagara Falls, NY) 140.2 vs. Carlos Nevarez (Denver, CO) 142.8
Aaron Alafa (Visalia, CA) vs. Greg McDowell (Cambria, CA) 117.4
Top photo: Ana Julaton (R) and Dominga Oliva pose after today's weighin at the Tachi Casino Hotel & Resort in Lemoore, CA.
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