Arnaoutis decisions Tyner in AC

By Marc Abrams

"Mighty" Mike Arnaoutis scored a unanimous decision over Lanardo Tyner to retain his USBA Jr. Welterweight title at Bally's Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Tyner actually did well early as he tried to rush Arnaoutis in an effort to get inside of Arnaoutis. In round two, Tyner sent Arnaoutis back with a big left. Arnaoutis got back to boxing and using his legs as he was effective with the jab and shots to the body. The middle rounds saw Arnaoutis land an assortment of punches as he did not let Tyner get into any type of rhythm.

Arnaoutis had a good round seven as he punished Tyner on the ropes with head and body shots. Despite having a cut under his right eye, which was noticeable in round eight, Arnaoutis used his experience of going the distance with a higher level of competition to help him solidify the late round and Tyner wasn't really a factor to get back into the fight.

Arnaoutis, 139 1/2 lbs of Atlantic City via Greece won by scores of 118-110, 118-110 and 116-112 to raise his record to 19-2-1. Tyner, 139 1/2 lbs of Detroit suffers his first defeat after nineteen straight wins.

Former U.S. Olympian Devin Vargas made short work of Dave Brunelli in a scheduled eight round Heavyweight bout.

Vargas landed a big overhand right that was followed by a huge left hook that sent Brunelli down just over minute in. Vargas then landed a left hook that was followe by a booming roundhouse right that sent Brunelli down for a second time. Referee Harvey Dock stopped the bout immediately just ninety-one seconds into the bout.

Vargas, 226 lbs of Toledo, Ohio is now 16-0 with seven knockouts. Brunelli, 231 1/2 lbs of Philadelphia is 8-4.

Good looking eighteen year old Raymond Serrano dropped overmatch Charles Wade twice in scoring a first round stoppage.

Serrano scored the first knockdown on a left hook to the head. Wade went down for a second time from a little right to the body and referee Steve Smoger stopped the fight at the 1:46 mark of the opening frame.

Serrano, 147 3/4 lbs of Philadelphia is now 6-0 with four knockouts. Wade, 147 3/4 lbs of Philadelphia is now 4-6

Patrick Majewski shook off a second round knockdown and a cut under his right eye to eek out a unanimous decision over Ariel Espanial in a four round middleweight fight.

Espinal landed a big overhand right that sent Majewski down in round two. Majewski took a few more shots but fought back to make the round competitive.

Majewski fought very well in an exciting last two rounds as he used his height to score with combinations. In the final round, Majewski suffered a cut under his right eye but he fought very well and took the round which was the difference in the scores as they all red 38-37 in favor of Majewski.

Majewski, 161 lbs of Atlantic City is now 8-0. Espinal, 161 3/4 lbs of Brooklyn, New York is 6-3-2.