[Thomas Hearns]

Reno Hilton, Reno, NV, United States, 2012-08-07

Round 2

Guillermo Jones 0-1-0 vs Jameel McCline 0-1-0
Both fighters came of upsetting losses and needed a win to recover their chances.
McCline started at his usual accelerated pace and punished a passive Jones with sharp combinations to win a massive first round.
On the second round McCline slowed the pace a lot but still edged the stanza.
Jones turned the things on the following three rounds. He stayed more active and he could dominate a tiring McCline. Jones hurt Mcline with right crosses and uppercuts on those rounds. On a violent back and forth last round McCline outlanded Jones to win the stanza and put the result into doubt. My scorecards 57-57 but the official ones 58-56 and 58-57 for McCline and 57-57 so McCline was the winner by majority decision.

Ondrej Pala 1-0-0 vs Tony Thompson 1-0-0 (1)
The pair split the first four rounds of the fight, Thompson won the first and third rounds and Pala won the second and the fourth ones. All the rounds was winning by each fighter on a convincing way so the fight didn’t have a dominator at that point.
Pala dominated most of the fifth round but Thompson rallied at the end of the stanza connecting a hard hook that stunned Pala.
But finally the last round was all for Pala that put Thompson in trouble with a violent hook that stop him cold. Pala continued dominating the stanza and Thompson finished the fight with some swelling under both eyes. My scorecard was 58-56 for Pala. The official scorecards were 58-56 (x3) for the winner by unanimous decision Ondrej Pala. Second hit for Ondrej Pala on the tournament after defeating McCline on the first round.

Marco Huck 0-0-0 vs Lisandro Diaz 0-1-0
Marco Huck won a onesided first round punishing Diaz at his own. Surprisingly Diaz reacted and won the second round convincingly also hurting Huck with an uppercut form the inside.
Huck regained the control on the third round and hurt Diaz two times, one with a straight right and the other with a smashing cross. The fourth round started with a fierce exchange: great straight right by Huck answered by a big left hook by Diaz. But after that Huck dominated the rest of the round putting Diaz in trouble with a great uppercut.
On the fifth round Huck was the only man on the ring and he used Diaz as a punching bag until connecting a great shot under Diaz’ ribcage and dropping him. Diaz got up at nine but the referee didn’t allow him to continue fighting so Huck won by TKO5. At th time of the stoppage the scorecards were 39-37 (x3) for Huck.

Standings

O.Pala 4
M.Huck 2
S.Sexton 2
J.Mccline 2
T.Thompson 2
G.Jones 0
L.Diaz 0

Next fights –September 2012-

M.Huck Vs S.Sexton
O.Pala Vs L.Diaz
J.McCline Vs T.Thompson