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Predicting the Future
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t’s crazy how things change and continue to move forward. I moved back “home” to New Mexico over a year ago. When I moved here I was publishing a paper called Tidbits and KNUXX was just an idea I had for “aggressive outerwear”. I was just learning how to be a publisher – in fact I had only just learned about the Adobe Creative Suite (this is the software that I use to do the graphic design and layout of the paper). I had no idea what I was getting myself into. By the time you will be reading this it will be 2012! I can’t believe that we are coming up on our first full year of publication. It turns out that KNUXX is a paper that the local fight community is falling in love with. Every day I get an email or a letter from you, the reader, telling me how much you enjoy the paper and what it means to read about the local fight community. If only I could have predicted the future. I wish I would have started KNUXX when I had a lot more money in the bank – and before I lost it all on a failed business. But had I not experienced those things I wouldn’t have even come up with the idea for KNUXX so I guess it was just an expensive lesson. Sometimes I wonder if fighters don’t look back and wish that they too could have predicted the future. In 2011 we saw many titles change hands – on both a national and a local level. We saw fighters retire, we saw boxers get knocked out for the first time, we saw fighters stay undefeated, and we saw a local fighter lose for the first time in many years. Holly Holm is New Mexico’s golden girl and I witnessed her loss in one of the most violent boxing matches I have ever seen – male or female. I wondered at the time if she would have taken the fight had she been able to predict the outcome. I wondered if she would have taken the fight had she known that she wasn’t just going to lose but that she was going to be knocked out in spectacular fashion. But then I realized that there’s a reason we can’t all see the future. There’s a reason why we lack the capacity to predict the outcome. If we could see the immediate consequences of our actions most of us would live a life that was “much safer”. We would see if we were going to lose. We would see if we were going to win. But here’s the catch – if there isn’t a chance to lose it all then there isn’t a chance to win big. Most of us wouldn’t take risks because we would be able to see the loss that might come. And that, my friends, would be a boring way to live. I look forward to 2012 because I don’t know what it will bring and it’s the opportunity that makes me excited for this year. I hope you enjoy this issue.
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he snow was falling outside as the crowd gathered inside to watch what would arguably be the biggest fight in recent women’s boxing history. Holly Holm would take on Anne Sophie Mathis for the middle weight title of both the IBA and WBAN. The night was not only about the ladies, this card was stacked with talented local fighters for what would be an action packed night. The evenings main event brought the 30-1-3 (9KO), Holly “The Preachers Daughter” Holm of Albuquerque, NM against the continent traversing, 25-1 (21KO) Anne Sophie Mathis of Dombasle-surMeurthe, France. This fight would decide the owner of both the IBA and WBAN middle weight titles. Round 1 began with Holm appearing faster than Mathis, landing several uppercuts from inside the pocket. Round 2 showcased great combos by Holm. While Holly was out striking Mathis, when she threw them, Mathis’ punches had power and always found their way to the target. Just before the bell Holm lands a punch that seemed to wobble Mathis’ legs just a bit. In round 3 Holm landed an audible body shot, that shook Mathis, and it showed as she winced. Mathis rotated out to put Holm on the ropes and landed a couple of solid hooks. Mathis also began to cut off angles on the “move” portion of Holm’s “stick and move”. Round 4 had several exchanges of left and right hooks. Mathis landing a
couple squarely on Holm. While Holm overall looked better than Mathis for the first four rounds, the tide began to turn slightly in the fifth. In the 5th round Mathis came out with more aggression than previous rounds. Holm landed a great combo from inside and then carefully ducked out of the long reach of Mathis, but Mathis kept coming... like a truck. While outstruck again by Holm, the punches Mathis landed were starting to do some damage as Holm appeared buckled by one. The 6th round was the beginning of the end. Holm was bleeding from the nose and was dropped by a tight uppercut from Mathis. In a controversial decision, the ref stood Holm back up with no count, she took a couple more punches before the bell. The 7th round brought the finish. Mathis caught Holm with a right that landed an out on her feet Holm tangled in the ropes. The ref, again, untangled and stood Holm up, where a right uppercut landed by Mathis had Holm down, out, and nearly through the ropes. Mathis was a gracious and respectful victor bringing her KO total to 22. In the 6 round barn burner of the night, Albuquerque’s own, 5-1-1, Josh “Pit bull” Torrez took on the 3-4-1, Kansas City fighter, Joel “Pirata” Vargas. Round 1 had both fighters sizing each other up trading left and right hooks. Excited Torrez mentor, Johnny Tapia, was yelling words of wisdom from the first row. A close round 2 began with the jab as the weapon of
choice for both fighters, and ended with both trading blazing fast 3 punch combos. Round three was marked by a huge body shot from Torrez that hunched Vargas over. Vargas returned the favor, pinning Torrez to the ropes and T’ing off on him. Nothing slowed as the 4th round was still a punch for punch battle, with both fighters launching right hooks, Torrez putting Vargas on his heels, and Tapia losing his voice. In the 5th round both fighters shared ref warnings for low blows and head contact, all were accidental. Knowing the fight was nearing the end, Torrez unleashed crushing right hooks on Vargas, and the hay-makers began to fly. By the time the 6th round began, the crowd was on it’s feet, and both fighters were egging each other on. Torrez and Vargas began to time their punches, making them count. Vargas looked a little more tired with his guard at his waist. The sharper Torrez capitalized and pinned Vargas to the ropes, pouring on combos right to the bell. Both fighters showed great respect for each other. Judges gave Torrez a 60-53 win. Edgar Zumbia of Hobbs NM, and Antonio Martinez of Espanola, NM both went into this fight with identical 1-0-1 records. The first round was a body shot battle with both fighters using very quick elevation change combos. Zumbia put Martinez on his heels right at the bell. Round 2 opened with both fighters trading right hands, Zumbia’s right seemed to have more steam behind it as he dropped Martinez with one. Martinez back on his feet, was rocked again by the right of Zumbia, this time with the ref stepping in with a stoppage. Zumbia got the TKO victory 2:37 into the second round, and went home with the 2-0-1 record these fighters fought for. Albuquerque’s Mathew Baca and El Paso fighter Daniel Gonzales both made their pro debut as light welter weights. Baca was hard to hit with lightening fast movement. Gonzales was persistent and landed a solid body shot to Baca as well Zubia vs. Martinez - photo by Will Fox
Page 3 as a hook, but that would be all he would land. Fighting from close quarters, Baca landed a short right hook that KO’d Gonzales at 2:59 of the 1st round for the evenings first KO. Albuquerque fighters Shaun Henson and Cristian Cabral also made their pro debut in this welter weight fight. Both fighters put on quite a show for all 4 rounds, punching for the KO the whole fight. Cabral was aggressive and threw a lot of big uppercuts. Henson was tough and a great counter striker, landing several hard hooks. One judge scored the bout 38-38 and the other two were 39-37, declaring Cabral the victor. In a flyweight women’s bout, the 0-2 Brandi Montoya took on the 2-6-2 Tonia Cravens. The first two rounds of the fight were a back and forth battle. The third round had Montoya the more aggressive of the two fighters, displaying a great right hook combined with body shots. Montoya rocked Cravens more than once in the fourth round. Cravens was tough and able to stay standing, but came up short when the judges handed Montoya the win and her first pro victory. Leonard Sanchez and Devon Sermons, both of Albuquerque, made their pro debut at bantam weight. Sanchez and Sermons laid it on thick the entire fight, right up to the bell of the 4th round. The lightning fast combos, and body shots from Sanchez would earn him the win with the judges decision. The evening got going with Albuquerque’s Yoel Gonzales making his pro debut against Santa Fe’s 1-0 Antonio Garcia. Gonzales was dropped by an uppercut from Garcia early in the first round. Gonzales got up like a man on fire and finished the round strong with Garcia’s face looking worse than his own. Round 2 had Gonzales knocking Garcia down with what appeared to be a right uppercut. The fight ultimately went the distance with Gonzales earning the 38-36 win in his lightweight pro debut.
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