Gravity by Sarah Deming

Author:Sarah Deming
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

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PUGILISM’S PREEMINENT CYBERSCRIBE

Carmen Cruz, Independent Journalist

April 8, 2016

US Continues Strong on Day Two of Continentals: Miller, Gonzales, Delgado Advance; Fanning Eliminated

CORNWALL, ONTARIO—The US went 3–1 on the second night of exciting action in the American Continental Championships. Although this tournament is nonadvancing, it gives the fighters vital international experience and the chance to test themselves in preparation for next month’s World Championships in China.

In the Olympic flyweight class, Kaylee Miller won unanimously over Gisela Suarez of Argentina, who boxed well but lacked the power to stand up to Miller’s aggressive onslaught. The rest of the flyweight bouts were mismatches in which strong champions from Canada, Puerto Rico, and Brazil blew out novices from Mexico, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic. The women’s amateur programs in many of these countries are still developing.

The 119-pounders made a strong argument for the opening of more Olympic weights. Carolina Berenbaum of Argentina put on a boxing clinic against the game Dominican Arisleyda Martinez. Aisha Johnson, fresh off last night’s victory over my countrywoman Ileana Santos—good fight, Ileana!—squared off against Toronto’s excellent Kathleen Glynn. Johnson won the close, strategic match by split decision. In the final bantamweight contest, Brazil took a lopsided decision over the lone Jamaican here.

The Olympic lightweight class was up next, featuring some of the strongest fighters in the tournament. Reigning Pan American champion Nydia Tapia of Puerto Rico handily outboxed Ecuador. Tomorrow she will face Brazil’s fearsome puncher Ariana Leite, who advanced unopposed when Barbados withdrew due to injury.

Brooklyn phenom Gravity Delgado, who got a soft touch last night in Honor Hickson of St. Lucia, looked uncharacteristically sluggish as she eked out a narrow unanimous decision over Quebec City’s workmanlike Annie Bervin. The final lightweight bout had the sparse crowd on their feet as Mexico’s Sylvia Rosalba Sánchez pulled out the split decision over Argentina’s Maria Suarez. The two Latina warriors never stopped trading in this punch-fest fought in a Canadian phone booth.

In the sole welterweight bout of the evening, Manitoba’s powerful Amanda Ross outboxed talented newcomer Nakima Fanning of Newark by unanimous decision. Action continues tomorrow in the fly, bantam, feather, light, and middleweight divisions, featuring the return to the ring of reigning Olympic champion Sacred Jones.

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