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Young Gunz Featuring Samuel Vargas Delivers High Caliber Fight Card By Rob Cruz PhilBoxing.com Mon, 13 Feb 2012  Samuel Vargas (R) knocks out Manolis Plaitis winning the Canadian Welterweight Title. Mississauga, Canada -- The sub-zero freezing temperatures in Mississauga, Canada last night did not keep the boxing fans at bay as United Promotions and Hennessy Sports heated up the Hershey Center with an action packed fight event. Dubbed as ?Young Gunz?, this card was without feature boxer Logan Cotton McGuinness, however the young and up and coming pugilists that fought were willing, ready and hungry to bring on everything they got to give in the ring. The boxing community here was put on high alert following the crowning and high caliber performance of the new Canadian Welterweight Champion from Mississauga, Samuel Vargas in the main event. Main Event: Samuel Vargas vs. Manolis Plaitis (Canadian Welterweight Title 147 lbs) The surging Samuel Vargas, who is originally from Columbia, now resides in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada put on a spectacular win last night that rocked Hershey Center. With his fists as he aimed and pulled the trigger like he was firing off a sub-automatic and knocked his opponent Manolis Paitis out cold in last minute of the first round. The official time of the first round knock out was 2:49. Manolis Paitis and Samuel Vargas came out storming and ready to exchange punches right at the opening bell. As punches went back and forth between them, it was evident early in the fight that Vargas would pressure Paitis with his power and speed. Vargas let his ring generalship and speed overwhelm Paitis who got trapped in the corner with a left hook against the ropes that hurt him. Vargas closed out the fight with another thundering left hook that knocked Paitis out cold. It took a couple of minutes for Paitis to be revived into consciousness as he was dazed, confused and unaware to what happened in the last moments of the fight. Samuel Vargas? follows up his ?Fight of the Year Candidate? from last October against Ahmed Cheikho with statement and blow out performance as he will definitely move up the world rankings after the results of his last two fights. According to Canadian boxer Steve Molitor, the former IBF World Champion (who works in Vargas? corner) told this writer that ?Samuel Vargas was dominant and will be the next World Champion? immediately after the fight. Here is a rare clip youtube from last year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYWZT740bVY where Samuel Vargas and Ahmed Cheikho put the boxing world on notice with their fight of the year nomination according to Yahoo Sports ?Plethora of candidates for Fight of the Year?. This fight was on the same day Nonito Donaire Jr. beat Omar Narvez in New York City. Samuel Vargas (9W-0L-1D, 3KO) remains undefeated and is now the new Canadian Welterweight Champion.  Co-feature match - Brandon Cook tags Chris Aucoin. Co-feature -Brandon Cook vs. Chris Aucoin Middleweight 160lbs (6 rounds) This fight was a very close and tangled fight like two bulls in the ring with locked horns pushing for supremacy. Lots of action and exchanges from the inside as if Ricky ?The Hitman? Hatton would have fought Juan ?Baby Bull? Diaz in the ring. Cook?s inside work rate, jabs and lobbing punches when he was able to gain distance took its toll on the very game Aucoin. Chris Aucoin took most of the punishment as he was busted and bloodied from the forth round on, he was persistent and kept coming forward no matter how many shots he took. Aucoin dished out his share on Cook, but he faded in the latter rounds due to Cook?s big punches. Although he was exhausted, Aucoin never gave up and took all of what Cook can dish out, he finished the fight on his feet although he staggered and was hurt in the last two rounds. Decision 58-56 59-55 60 54 by unanimous decision Brandon ?Bad Boy? Cook  Michael "The Brazilian Rocky" Oliveira connects against Sergei Melis. Special Feature Bout - Michael Oliveira vs. Sergei Melis Middleweight Division (8 rounds) The undefeated Michael ?The Brizilian Rocky? Oliveira made his Canadian debut last night and demonstrated his excellent boxing as he controlled most of the fight with his counter punching abilities that scored convincing points against Melis. The undefeated and surging fighter originally from Brazil by way of Miami, Florida sports a couple of WBC Championship belts including the middleweight Latino title. In the first round both boxers was cautious and exercised mutual respect as they measured each other out. As the fight went deeper, both Oliveira and Melis proved their durability as big squared punches were landed openly on each of their chins. Melis was no slouch, he was able to hurt Oliveira who got caught in the middle rounds with a few big punches where Oliveira had to clinch. Oliveira landed more convincing punches as he connected with power punches and administered punishment from the inside and when space was generated between the two clinched fighters. The ?Brazilian Rocky? exercised some savvy counter punching combinations that landed on the durable and battle worthy Melis. The advantage of Oliveira?s counter punching was the significant key difference between the two fighters. He is now on a 17 fight win streak. Decision 79-73 , 77-75 x 2 by Unanimous Decision for |Michael Oliveira Overall, Young Gunz was a successful and well attended event. United Promotions and Hennessy Sports has successfully showcased the deep talent and the promise of their young and up and coming boxers who are a few fights from cracking the world level. In addition, credit must be given to these two fight promoters for keeping boxing alive up here. The future looks bright for their boxers which include Logan Cotton McGuinness, Samuel Vargas, Rocky Oliveira and Brandon cook. Should these four boxers be featured in a card at the same time down the road, you can bet an action filled fight card worthy of watching. United Promotions and Hennessy Sports has been dedicated and persistent with promoting boxing in the Greater Toronto Region with their quarterly fight events at Mississauga?s Hershey Center since boxing disappeared from Casinorama. Their events will only get bigger and better as proven last night. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Rob Cruz.  |
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