Mitchell scores decision over Cruz

03/05/2006

Mitchell scores decision over Cruz

THE BOXINGTALK SCOREBOARD

Sharmba Mitchell W10 Jose Luis Cruz... Veteran Sharmba Mitchell, who began his career as a lightweight, remained in the welterweight picture with a unanimous ten-round decision over Jose Luis Cruz in Cathedral City, California. The official scorecards favored Mitchell, "the little big man" by scores of  96-94 and 97-93 (twice).  According to to ESPN, Mitchell outlanded Cruz 225 punches to 181 to improve to 57-5 over a distinguished eighteen-year career. Cruz falls to 31-2-2 with his second straight loss. In 2005, Cruz lost to Shane Mosley, but in 2004 he drew with Carlos Baldomir, now the welterweight champion of the world. 
source: Darren Nichols @ ringside

Ray Narh W8 Steve Quinonez...  Ray Narh appeared to easily defeat Steve Quinonez in the ESPN2 telecast co-feature but instead had to sweat out a split decision when the scorecards were read. Narh knocked Quinonez down in the seventh round of the junior welterweight bout and outlanded Quinonez by a wide margin  of punches, but one judge scored the eight rounder 77-74 for Quinonez. However, he was overruled by the other two judges, who turned in scorecards of 77-74 and 79-72 in Narh's favor. At 17-1, Narh, a 2000 Olympian for Ghana is on the verge of being a legitimate world contender. Quinonez didn't disgrace himself at all, but the 35 year old may consider retiring after dropping to 31-11-1 with 4 split decision losses in his last six bouts. source: Wednesday Night Fights on ESPN2

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