Lenny DeVictoria and Gee Cullmer win at The Blue Horizon

Lenny DeVictoria vs. Derrick Moon

Two fighters who don't duck anybody got together to headline this card at The Blue and this one didn't disappointed. It was 8 rounds of two way exchanges as a chizzled Moon tried to apply pressure and be the boss in the ring but his offense was nullified by clean counter punching and well timed combinations by Lenny.

The fighters split the first two rounds which went at a steady pace with neither man truly gaining the upper hand. In the third, the fight seemed to take its form as Moon, the stronger of the two would try to muscle Lenny into the ropes and punch to the body. Lenny, with his back against the ropes would take a few then wiggle free to fire off some combinations in return.

In the 4th, DeVictoria brought the fight to the middle of the ring where he would do his best work of the evening. Moon would stand toe- to toe with the Philly native but it was Lenny who landed the cleaner punches and eventually scored a flash knockdown as his movement kept Moon off balance.

Moon picked up the pace after the knockdown and tried to change his look, switching from orthodox to southpaw and back again. Lenny let the fight come to him and responded with three and four punch combos as Moon kept coming, fighting until the very end.

It went to the cards with all three judges seeing it in favor of Lenny DeVictoria who improves to 11- 10 , 4ko's





Gee Cullmer vs. John "The Baptist" Terry

We didn't get the Gee vs. Joe Christy fight that was originally proposed but we did get Joe Christy lite in the form of John "The Baptist" Terry. Gee pounded away for the majority of this fight but Terry does have some spunk in him and showed that even though he is from Baltimore, he is pretty tough. Through 5 rounds, Gee worked the body and followed up with straight rights upstairs. Terry's corner man was screaming going into the 6th and Terry responded with his best round of the evening as he went all out trying to get a KO. In the end it wasn't enough and Gee won on all three judges scorecards.







Ran Nakash vs. Rey Ruiz

Ran Nakash stays undefeated with a 2nd round knockout over Rey Ruiz who usually fights at light heavyweight. It was a typical Nakash fight where the house stacked the odds heavily in his favor as he came in 3 lbs over the cruiser weight limit. With that out of the way, Nakash did do what he had to do and afetr a slow first round, he let loose in the second landed punches at will. A hard 4 punch combo sent Ruiz to the ropes where referee Gary Rosado decided to stop the fight. Hopefully Greg Serb will no longer sit idle as Nakash gets eased through the ranks. At 11 - 0, it is time to take at least a half decent fight.





The house gave the steel chinned Tex Cobb a standing ovation when he was presented his Sports Management degree as he recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from Temple University




Samir the Pharoah vs. Kamarah Pasley

Samir was very aggressive in this fight as he chased around Pasley over four rounds and landed a good amount of straight right hands. Pasley had a few spots where he would catch Samir sleeping and lunge in with a straight left out of his southpaw stance but overall it was Samir's energy and willingness to fight which led him to the win.





Julias Edwards vs. Shavaris Boui

In the opener, Philly's Julias Edwards pounded out a 4 round unanimous decision over NY's Shavarious Boui. Though Edwards was the smaller fighter, he was more aggressive, landed the much cleaner punches and even though it was his debut, looked far more comfortable in the ring.

Things got really good in the final minute as Buie looked for the KO and slugged away but Edwards responded and landed some hard rights and lefts of his own which put the corwd on their feet.

It went to the cards and Julias Edwards won by scores of 40 - 36 & 39- 37 x2.


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