Photo e Joe Tarlecky
Reading, PA (Mahuru 14, 2015)– I te po te Paraire, Mahuru 18, hoki mai mekemeke ki te Hotel Claridge i Atlantic City rite Kings Whakatairanga hoki mo te po nui o te mahi.
I roto i te hui matua, Ka tangohia Travis Kauffman i runga i mua kaiwero taitara ao Epifanio Mendoza.
Kauffman o te Reading, PA e ha lekooti o 29-1 ki 21 knockouts me te eke i te pūkenga win 11-whawhai hora e kua 5 me tau i te hawhe.
Kua patua Kauffman nga momo o Malachy Farrell (16-1), William Shahan (7-1), Chris Koval (24-6), Vincent Thompson (13-1) a i roto i tona a'ee whakamutunga ka mau ia i roto i Richard Carmack i te kotahi-a tawhio noa i runga i August 14 i roto i te Newark, New Jersey.
Kauffman tika hoki ki te omaoma e whai ake nei i te a'ee Carmack ka ka te haere tonu ki te tawhio ki te āhua i muri i te 19 marama te roa,.
“Ko te take i puritia e ahau i roto i te omaoma te tauturu ahau te wa nui. Whakaaro ahau ka waiho e ahau hei pauna iti iho i te Carmack tokorua te aroraa no te paunatia ano e ahau 239 pauna. E taea e ahau ki te ake me te ake rere e whai ake nei i te pokanga me kua ki ahau tauturu te reira ki toku conditioning,”Na ka mea a Kauffman.
I roto i te Mendoza, Kei te anga ia i te taata nei i te lekooti o 41-21-1 ki 35 knockouts nui me he whakauru ia mo whawhai tūturu Tokunbo Olijade, Rubin Williams, Carlos Negron & Ray Recio me te whakauru totoka i runga i Rito Ruvalcalba, Alejandro Luis Garcia, a kua whawhai mo te aito Light taumahamaha.
“Kua ia a tawhio noa te wa roa. Kei a ia te taata tino mātanga i runga i toku anō. Ko ia he puncher nui, me te kua taea ki te mutu whawhai pai, kia whai ahau ki te tango i a ia fakamātoato.”
Kei te ngana a Kauffman ki te tiki ake te wahi i mahue atu ia ki te whawhai Carmack, ka maturuturu iho ia te tukituki 300-me rua ki matā tinana.
“Ko te fele a tawhio rua hoki ahau tenei. Ko tenei wa, E kore e waiho e ahau pouri ki te hokona e ahau rauna i roto i ki te mahi atu waikura mowhiti.”
Kauffman, i haina ki Al Haymon, kua kite i tetahi whawhai i roto i te wehenga taumahamaha tiki i etahi whai wāhitanga i runga i te raupapa Mekemeke Champions Pirimia me te-tau 30 he rite mo te whawhai o e ka hoatu ia ia i roto i te totohe hoki pere taitara ao.
“Kua tumanako ahau i roto i Noema e ka enei whawhai nui ki reira. I muri i tenei whawhai, Ka ahau 30-1 a ka rapu ana ahau mo te hunga ahua o whawhai. Ite ahau e ahau rite.”
“Ko ahau fiefia ki te ohipa. He muri i ahau nga whara, me te inaianei ahau he pakeke 30 toa tau-tawhito. E mohio ana ahau e kore ahau e whiwhi ahau teina, engari ko te reira te ao tino mo te taumahamaha. Kua tīmata ahau ano ki te kia ite rite ko reira i roto i 2009 tena ko tenei kua ahau nui atu wheako e rua i roto i a roto o te whakakai kia mohio ahau ko te pai tonu i roto i mua o ahau. Ko ahau i whakatapua he rota atu a muri iho i tenei whawhai, E haere ana ahau hoki ki raro, ki Texas ki te mahi i runga i toku conditioning me faaineine no te Whiringa.”
“E hiahia ana ahau ki te whakawhetai ki toku rōpū i ngā toku papa Marshall Kauffman, Naazim Richardson me Jeff Negrelli. Ano Al Haymon mō te whakapono i roto i ahau. ”
Ko te tahi-āhuatanga, ka riro he a'ee taumahamaha 8-a tawhio noa e Ka ngā te hokinga mai o mua kaiwero taitara ao American “Nohopuku” Eddie Chambers (41-4, 22 KO o) tango i runga i Galen Brown (41-31-1, 25 KO o) o St. Hohepa, Missouri.
Ano putanga i roto i te a'ee 8-a tawhio noa, ka waiho Cruiserweight Keith Tapia (15-0, 10 KO o) o Santurce, Puerto Rico tango i runga i Anthony Caputo Smith (15-5, 10 KO o) o Kennett Square, PA
Ivan Golub (8-0, 6 KO o) o Brooklyn, NY ka Pavel Miranda whawhai (19-10-1, 9 KO o) o Tijuana, Mexico i roto i te a'ee Super Welterweight.
I roto i te pāngia 6-a tawhio:
Riria i Yuleussinov (3-0, 2 KO o) o Brooklyn, NY whawhai Justin Williams (4-10-2, 2 KO o) o Beaumont, Texas i roto i te whawhai Super whitu.
Danny Kelly (8-1-1, 7 KO o) o Washington, Ka whawhai DC Jimmy Suarez (3-6, 3 KO o) o Aguada, PR i roto i te a'ee taumahamaha.
I roto i te pāngia 4-a tawhio noa:
Alex Barbosa (4-2-1, 1 KO) o Philadelphia, PA ka Jose Garcia whawhai (0-4) o San Juan, Puerto Rico i roto i te whakataetae mā whitu
Pavlo Ishchenko o Brooklyn, Ka meinga e NY tona tuatahi pro ki Nicholas Rodriguez (0-2-1) o Somerset, KY i roto i te whakataetae mā whitu.
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