TWO FARCICAL HEAVYWEIGHT BOUTS IN CHINA
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 08 Nov 2008
Two farcical heavyweight bouts added to a terrible mismatch featuring Marco Antonio Barrera against Sammy Ventura in a fight card presented by promoter Don King in Chengdu, China, Friday night.
In what was described as a ?mostly dreadful heavyweight eliminator? 38 year old Jameel McCline who stands 6?6? and weighed in at 272 pounds scored a twelve round unanimous decision over the smaller, 28 year old Mike Mollo who stood 6?1? and weighed 227 pounds.
All three judges scored the fight for McCline. Nicolas Hidalgo had McLine the winner 116-112, Takeaki Kanaya 116-111 and Brian Mcahon 116-112.
Both fighters plodded around the ring and kept holding with only occasional exchanges in a fight card telecast ?live? by Solar Sports on its cable channel in the Philippines.
Mollo carried the fight in the early rounds who led on the scorecards of two of the three judges at the end of the fourth round.
McCline hurt Mollo in round six with a couple of big shots and Mollo was clearly in trouble as he staggered to his corner at the end of the round.
Mollo began to tire in round eleven when he connected with a low blow which gave McCline a welcome rest. When the bout resumed McCline went after Mollo and staggered him on a couple of occasions but couldn?t put him away and had to eventually settle for a unanimous points decision.
In the main event Poland?s Andrew Golota was decked in the first few seconds of his heavyweight battle with Ray Austin who rushed at the Pole the moment the bell sounded and caught him by surprise.
What was a bigger surprise was when Austin dropped Golota with a solid left hook a few moments later but referee Michael Griffin ruled it a slip not a knockdown, promoting respected TV commentator Col. Bob Sheridan to remark ?the referee has done some strange things.?
Golota was hammered from one end of the ring to another and appeared to have hurt his left arm which he hung by his side while trying to throw wild rights. He was in trouble when the bell ended round one and sat on his stool and didn?t come out for the second round as the ring physician examined his left arm.
Austin was declared the winner after Golota retired at the end of round one. He improved his record to 26-4-4, with 17 knockouts while Golota dropped to 41-7-1 with 33 knockouts.
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