By: Brad Marchetti

Miami, FL- Fight night at the Mahi Temple, the spot to be for loud music, fine honey’s and pure violence wrapped in Everlast gloves. In the Co-main event, welterweight Ed Paredes 15-2, 9 KO’s, fought Anthony Little in a six round bout. Paredes was a good 3 inches taller than Little, 7-9, and looked much stronger. Throughout the entertaining six rounder, Ed stalked Anthony and showed some good power, especially with a laser straight right hand that put Little down on a knee in the fourth round.

Little was game throughout, displaying adequate skills and showing occasional bursts, but he was outgunned by the 22 year old prospect Paredes who was throwing some hard leather to the body. Little landed some shots of his own, but he ws outpointed by the agressor Paredes by scores of, 58-55 and 59-54 twice. In the main event, stocky Welterweight Yukenze Andino, 9-0-1, 3 KO’s, fought Nelson Romine, 8-1-2, 1 KO, in an 8 rounder. Andino pressed the action against Romine, putting relentless pressure with his switch hitting stance, going to the body and head with telling shots.

Ohio Buckeye Romine, who is trained by former Buster Douglas trainer Joe Johnson, showed some slick defensive moves by doing his best James Toney impression, countering with his back against the ropes with pot shots. Andino grew increasingly frustrated and taunted Nelson to engage in the center of the ring, but Romine was content on picking his shots from the corner ringpost. Andino, as physically strong as he looks, doesn’t seem to be a big puncher and when he did land cleanly, it had absoloutly no effect on Romine. In the end, the judges had the score right when the bout was declared a draw.

The crowd and Andino felt the decision was bogus, but this writer thought the decision was fair because after all, this is the sweet science and not human cockfighting fighting a.k.a. (MMA), where points are awarded for stupid aggression . While it’s true Andino pressed the action, Romine landed the clean shots throughout the fight. All in all, the show was an A+ blue-collar event with a solid undercard put on by Elite Promotions, who is making their mark on the boxing scene in the South Florida area as “THE” marquee promoters in Miami.