White Pulls out Split Decision; Eriksson fights to a draw in PA!

For Lee's Kyle White dug deep to pull out a gutsy four round split decision over Pete Yates, while Dover's Todd Eriksson fought to a disputed draw against Stephon Burgette last night in Chester, PA at Harrah's Casino.

According to Rick Scharmberg of Fightnews.com, White (3-0, 2 KOs) went right to work behind a fine jab, but was caught with a counter left hook that opened a nasty cut in the corner of his left eye midway through the round. Yates tried to end things with power shots but ended up spending a lot of energy, and hewalked back to his corner with blood coming from a cut to the back of his head. Still, the round was extremely close based on White’s early work.

Early in round two, a hard right from Yates dropped an off-balance White along the ropes. Yates once again tried to finish White with power shots, but his hands were dropping as White got himself back into it.

Yates landed a big left-right combination to open round three, but White used his superior boxing ability by staying behind his jab and firing his right to the body of Yates to easily take the round.

Both fighters were now bleeding from the nose in the final round, but White still had a lot left in the tank against the fading Yates. White tagged Yates with an assortment of shots to the head and body, and his superior conditioning earned him the fight.

The scores were 38-37 (twice) for White, and 39-37 in favor of Yates.





Erikson (2-5-2, 1 KO) tried to keep the fight on the inside while the muscular Burgette (0-0-1) sought to plaster himself to his opponent’s chest and maul on the inside.

Every round was close and difficult to score. Erikson had the edge in round one, but Burgette landed some uppercuts while on the inside in rounds two and three. Burgette lost his mouthpiece in both rounds, while Erikson appeared to tire in the third.

Round four was razor thin, as Erikson was punching in combination, and Burgette landed a big right along with two right uppercuts. Erikson might have had a slight edge here, but it was very close.

In the end, the scores read 39-37 for Burgette, 39-37 for Erikson, and even at 38-38.

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