E.A. Sirota and Danielle Provenzano
In the main event of an entertaining 8-bout card promoted by Diane Lee Fischer, Cuban-born Giorbis Barthelemi (who now resides in Hialeah, FL) upset Derek “Pooh” Ennis of Philadelphia by second round TKO. Barthelemi scored a knock down with seconds to go in the opening round, and Ennis never recovered. After staggering to his corner, Ennis came out for the second with his legs still not under him. Barthelemi finished Ennis off after he pinned him in a corner and landed multiple unanswered power punches.
Barthelemi improves to 5-8-2, 10 KO, as Ennis drops to 22-3-1, 13 KO.
Atlantic City's own Isiah Seldon (4-0 , 2 KO) pleased his local fans in attendance by scoring a third round TKO over Juan Zapata (1-5, 1KO) of Honduras. After sending Zapata to the canvas early in the round with an over hand right, Seldon forced Eddie Cotton to waive the bout off at 2:36 of the third.
Todd “Viking” Eriksson (3-5-2, 1KO), a middleweight out of Dover, NJ, won his bout against Lawrence Jones(3-5-2, 1KO) of Washington, DC by split decision in four rounds. Fighting through a cut he suffered in the first round, the hard-nosed Eriksson got the better of Jones in the second half of the fight.
Camden native Louis Cream(1-0), the grandson of the legendary Jersey Joe Walcott, won his pro debut against Yehudy Vargas (1-1) of Trenton. Cream carried the welterweight bout 40-34, with all three judges in agreement.
In what was perhaps the most entertaining and technical match of the evening, Atlantic City's Althea “Lady Thunder” Saunders (2-0) fought Melissa St. Vil (1-1-2) of Brooklyn, NY to a four round majority draw. After the bout, it was announced by promoter Dee Lee Fisher that the two would rematch on her next card in the coming months.
Ali Santos of Camden (1-0) out-boxed Philadelphia's Eric Newell en route to a four round split decision in their heavyweight bout. The judges scores were 40-36 and 39-37 for Santos against 39-37 for Newell.
Newark, DE lightweight and member of the fighting Tiberi family, Joey Tiberi (3-1, 3KO), rebounded from his first career loss with an easy TKO1 over Shawn Hodson (1-6, 1KO) of Franklin, IN. Tiberi floored his over-matched opponent twice before Hodson's trainer asked for the bout to be stopped.
In the opening bout of the evening, Edgardo “El Molle Ja” Torres of Vineland needed only 43 seconds stop to Glassboro's Marcus Smith (1-4, 1KO). A crushing right cross put Smith down, and gave Torres his first professional victory.
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