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“Detroit Brawl” Topped By Wins From JG Smith and O’Quinn

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“Detroit Brawl” Topped By Wins From JG Smith and O’Quinn

The latest “Detroit Brawl” unfolded Sunday night at the Masonic Temple in downtown Detroit and promoter Dmitriy Salita reports the event went smashingly.

“Great show and all our guys won good fights,” the Brooklyn based dealmaker told us about the 11-bout fight fest.

I asked for a couple highlights.

James Gordon Smith looked explosive, powerful, confident and just impressive in his TKO win of Szilveszter Ajtai in the first round,” he shared. The Michiganer Smith, a bantamweight,  rises to 11-0.

“Also, Ja'Rico O'Quinn is a special talent, he looked special in his win last night,” Salita said. “He can progress very quickly,  I see a big future for him.” The Detroit bantamweight went to 5-0 in taking out Angel Carvajal in round three.

Smith told me Monday about his win. “It was an easy win, I felt very strong, I felt that I dominated the fight and did everything I wanted as far controling my opponent,” he said.  “I wanted a clean knock-out, but TKO is great too. I am looking forward to the next fight, it will possibly be the biggest fight of my career, and I am working hard for it, getting right back into training and staying focused.”

Here is the release which went out after:

Sunday Matinee Detroit Brawl Draws Huge Crowd to Masonic Temple in Detroit
Promoter Dmitriy Salita of Salita Promotions wishes to thank all the participants, sponsors and especially the fans who helped make his latest “Detroit Brawl” such a tremendous success.
Held this past Sunday, January 22, at the Masonic Temple Downtown, the Detroit Brawl attracted a near sell-out crowd, who took in an exciting night of no less than 10 fights. In the night's welterweight main event, Detroit's Lanardo Tyner (31-10-2, 20 KOs) proved he still has plenty left in the tank as he made a meal out of Hungary's Istvan Dernanecz (10-5, 7 KOs).
Tyner, one of the city's most beloved fighters, scored an impressive TKO in the first round (1:58).
And in the co-main event, Detroit bantamweight James Gordon Smith (12-0, 7 KOs) had an usually easy night, as he took out Hungary's Szilveszter Ajtai (10-4-1, 5 KOs) at the 1:00 mark of round two. Having had several slugfests in a row, Smith used his considerable talent to take out his Hungarian foe with a flurry of hard punches along the ropes.
“Boxing's big comeback continues,” said a happy Salita, post-fight. “The goal of this series was to showcase the best young prospects in the city in competitive match-ups and we've done it and the fans have responded very well. The crowd today was very large and loud and came out in force to support their local fighters. It was a great event and thank you to everyone, especially Greektown Casino for their continued support.”
Other Results: 
Detroits Ja'Rico O'Quinn scored a third-round TKO (2:34) over Chicago's Angel Carvajal.
In the fight of the night, super middleweights Deandre Ware of Toledo and Juan Rojas-Sanchez of Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico, fought to an exciting six-round split draw. Scores were 56-58, 58-56 and 57-57.
Heavyweight Junior Wright of Evanston, Illinois, knocked out Detroit's Damon McCreary at 2:04 of round two.
In another heavyweight match-up, Detroit's Marcus Carter scored a TKO 2 (1:23) over Manitowoc, Wisconsin's Timothy Dunn.
Super featherweight Dwayne Zeigler of Montgomery, Alabama won a four-round unanimous decision (40-36, 40-36 and 39-37) of Charles Clark of Dallas, Texas.
Detroit super lightweight Larry Ventus Jr. knocked out Fort Myers, Florida's Jesus Lule with a single left hook. The knockout came at 2:26 of round two.
Super welterweight Ardreal Holmes of Flint knocked out Georgia's Bryan Goldsby at 2:59 of round two.
 
Cruiserweight Alexey Zubov of Detroit via Magnitogorsk, Russia, stopped Budapest, Hungary's Andras Csomor at 1:05 of round three.

Founder/editor Michael Woods got addicted to boxing in 1990, when Buster Douglas shocked the world with his demolition of the then-impregnable Mike Tyson. The Brooklyn-based journalist has covered the sport since for ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, Bad Left Hook and RING. His journalism career started with NY Newsday in 1999. Michael Woods is also an accomplished blow by blow and color man, having done work for Top Rank, DiBella Entertainment, EPIX, and for Facebook Fightnight Live, since 2017.