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Deidre Gogarty takes on Debra Stroman in a Women's bout to kickoff a 5 fight card on Showtime Boxing
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00:00if there was ever a galaxy for country music stars it would be located here in nashville
00:17tennessee but now hoping to make some hits of their own here in music city usa are five stars
00:24not of the grand old opry but of the grand old ring for tonight we turn nashville into bashville
00:36opening the show and hoping to make a smash hit of her own in women's boxing is ireland deirdre gogarty
00:46wbo heavyweight champion henry atkin one day fresh off his first title defense
00:51without to prove to the world he is no one hit wonder and three-time world champion and tennesseean
00:57frankie rattle is hoping to make the nashville crowd stand by their man as he defends his wba
01:03junior welterweight title plus puerto rico's undefeated ivf welterweight title holder felix
01:09trinidad is bringing his brand of chin music salsa style to music city usa and finally terry norris
01:17eager to climb to the top of the charts as boxing's best pound for pound puts his wbc and ivf 154 pound
01:24titles on the line it's an achy breaky start for boxing of the country music capital next on showtime
01:32championship boxing
01:50the history and presence of country music is ubiquitous in nashville from its downtown neighborhood known as
01:56the district to the cathedral of country music the grand hall opry house but standing in sharp contrast
02:02to the musical history of this city is the brand new nashville arena a 20 000 seat facility where
02:09tonight's fisticuffs will be held and welcome to the new nashville arena in nashville tennessee where it's
02:18unseasonably cold temperature 20 degrees the wind chill at 10 big snowstorm yesterday and we are happy to
02:26be indoors indeed in a building that opened just last month and tonight plays host to its first ever
02:31sporting event as boxing comes to the country music capital of the world and whether you're a fan of
02:36the sweet science or a fan of the sweet sounds of country or both you've come to the right place and
02:42despite the weather it should be a hot time in the old town tonight with a big night of boxing and country
02:47on tap hello again everybody i'm steve albert glad you could join us happy new year from all of us at
02:53showtime championship boxing as we kick off 97 with a marathon night of boxing this evening we present
03:00five count them five fights ranging from the featherweights to the heavyweights as we feature
03:06a new champion a three-time champion an undefeated champion and one of boxing's two current unified
03:12champions all defending their titles here tonight now in addition we'll have a six-round women's bout
03:18as the distaff side of boxing continues to grow in popularity with that let me bring on my partners
03:24in ringside first the fight dr ferdy pacheco and ferdy you know back in the 70s and 80s we had the
03:29the wonderful combinations of hagler hearns leonard and duran what about the triangle of norris trinidad
03:34and randall and possible future showdowns well that's a savory triangle because all three fighters
03:40are exceptionally good maybe the best fighting today the triangle would hold up except in one leg you
03:44couldn't have a lightweight and there's 14 pounds between norris and randall that couldn't be but
03:50the rest of the triangle would hold up they could give you about a year's worth of excellent fighting
03:55if we could put that together i sincerely hope they do as we turn to our other partner bobby chez and
04:01bobby what about wbo heavyweight champion henry akinwande a fighter who still battles for respect
04:06and recognition even though he's a he's a world champ well steve that's just that he already has a world
04:10title and he needs the respect and the recognition he needs to get it by beating the bigger name
04:14heavyweights and he needs constant exposure such as showtime showtime event television without that
04:19he won't get what he desires he's got to beat the big names the people identify with it's the only way
04:24all right we look forward to your comments and those of the fight doctor and we invite you to get
04:28comfortable as we run down tonight's order of bouts from right here in nashville tennessee and we'll get
04:35things rolling with a special women's attraction as it'll be ireland's deirdre gogany will take on
04:42deborah strowman after that a giant leap to the heavyweight division as boxing's giant six seven
04:46henry akinwande defends his wbo heavyweight title against top contender scott welts two men who do not
04:52like each other then three-time world champ frankie the surgeon randall goes against number one rated
04:56khalid rahilu for the wba junior welterweight title batting cleanup the stellar felix trinidad making his
05:0311th defense of the ibf welterweight crown against kevin lushing and finally terrible terry norris puts
05:08two championship belts on the line the ibf and the wbc 154 pound titles against nick rupa but coming up
05:17first the focus falls on the women of boxing as the nashville arena plays host to deirdre gogany versus
05:23deborah strowman now originally the sensational christy martin was scheduled to fight but it's been
05:28reported to us that an injury suffered in training forced her off tonight's card
05:32recently however she has issued statements to the media that she's able and ready to fight tonight
05:37now in usa today christy put forth the theory that someone is giving don king false information about
05:42her a bizarre situation shaping up behind the scenes now ironically it was the recent surge of women's
05:49boxing created by christy martin that brought our first combatant back to the sport following a long
05:54layoff her name deborah strowman and with that let us take a look at deborah 32 year old
06:01mother of three she took two years and four months off to devote time to her family
06:05tonight she returns a big jump though for deborah with only nine pro fights
06:10and taking this fight on only a week and a half notice
06:26and here she comes toward the ring trotting her way in
06:30behind her husband linnell that's deborah strowman and bobby this is a tough kick she comes off the
06:36long stretch away from competitive boxing and she goes against a much more experienced deirdre gogany
06:42who also has been active well you know what being active is very important the experience is just an
06:47insurmountable thing sometimes because she's been at it so long so consistently it's going to be a tough
06:52sure so there she is deborah strowman and she'll be taking on deirdre gogany substituting for christy
07:01martin a late scratch former women's irish lightweight champ who came to the u.s because
07:06women are not allowed to fight professionally in ireland so she is substituting here tonight
07:11in nashville as the women's headliner tonight a major breakthrough opportunity for deirdre
07:34deirdre gogany now she hops to it best remembered for her blood-filled war bobby you'll recall with
07:40christy martin on that bruto tyson card last march and while that benchmark brawl put christy on the
07:46cover of sports illustrated deirdre delivered a courageous effort in defeat you know she gave
07:52away 15 full pounds at a very lightweight which is almost an insurmountable thing to do it's just
07:57such a big difference the strength was a factor she fought hard tooth and nail and it was a close
08:02decision she was in the fight all the way i certainly got her way up there in the ladies all right bob
08:08let's go to the numbers and check out the tail of the tape gogany is 27 stroman turned 32 yesterday
08:14so happy birthday three inch height advantage for gogany stroman gives away about six pounds
08:18and a three and a half inch reach advantage for deirdre gogany and of the tennessee rules for this
08:23women's featherweight bout scoring is under the 10-point much system three judges will score the fight the
08:28standing eight count is in effect three knockdown rule also in effect only the referee can stop the fight
08:33a fighter cannot be saved by the bell except in the last round if an accidental foul occurs before
08:38the end of the third round the fight is ruled a no contest if it happens after the end of round
08:42three they go to the cards so here at the nashville arena special women's attraction let's get the
08:48formal introductions our ring announcer jimmy lennon jr
09:11obviously we are having a little technical problem with the microphone of jimmy lennon jr i think it's
09:21all right now no not quite not quite so while they work out the kinks here in nashville we'll take a look
09:29at the deirdre gogany once again 27 year old originally from ireland now living in lafayette louisiana
09:40you know under the tutelage of bo williford bobby the fight with uh christy martin may have gotten
09:44christy a cover but it certainly immediately put deirdre gogany on the map he's giving away 15 pounds
09:50to a very accomplished and strong fighter christy martin held their own got knocked down was i think
09:55caught up in the awe of the moment at first came back late in the fight started to turn it had christy in
10:00trouble a couple of times we thought christy's nose was broken with so much blood made an incredible account for herself
10:05bobby we've talked about the pluses and minuses the
10:09the upside the downside the problems over the last couple of years with women's boxing
10:13where are we going with women's boxing as we take a look at uh deborah stroman here well
10:19you know i'm sure that the ladies who take this seriously and obviously they do
10:22want this to be more of a mainstream thought want it to be a recognized professional sport that
10:27draws the type of following the men do deborah stroman has been inactive for quite some time
10:33better than two years she had a baby and now uh she and her husband lennell raising three children
10:39looks like jimmy lennon jr has the problem rectified so here we go again to jimmy lennon jr
10:44ladies and gentlemen a very good evening to you and we welcome you to the beautiful new nashville
10:51arena here in nashville tennessee as we have a big night of action coming your way and it's all
10:56brought to you by don king of productions and budweiser the undisputed king of beers at this time ladies and
11:04gentlemen we present a women's featherweight special attraction it is scheduled for six two-minute rounds of
11:11boxing presenting to you the judges scoring this bout from ringside jeff chase bill clancy and cliff
11:19crowder presenting to you a referee in charge of this bout he'll be giving instructions after the
11:24introductions steve murph all right fans here we go introducing to you first on my left fighting out of
11:32the blue corner entering the ring wearing blue trunks with gold trim she joins us from blackville south
11:39carolina she weighed in at 119 and one half pounds with a record of six wins and three losses she has
11:47three of her wins coming by way of knockout please welcome deborah de stroman
11:58and her opponent across the ring on my right fighting out of the red corner the sixth round attraction
12:03wearing multicolored trunks white orange and green and hailing from dublin ireland she weighed in at 125
12:12and three quarter pounds with a fine record of 16 wins four losses and two draws she has 15 big wins coming
12:21by way of knockout please welcome dangerous d-drug gogertie
12:30and once again it's steve murph our referee in charge now to give instructions
12:38we've already covered the rules and regulations in the dressing room i want a good clean fight
12:43when i say break i want you to take one step back with no punches thrown understood no budding no
12:49hitting below the belt are there any questions seconds keep your gloves on at all times shake
12:55hands when the bell rings come out fighting good luck
13:04deirdre gogertie whose father was a world-renowned oral surgeon invented see-through
13:08braces her mother a former public health dentist early on she never told her folks about her boxing
13:14they just thought he she was seeing a boyfriend at the gym today they're very supportive of her
13:18career and she'll be going up against deborah stroman in a unique setup trained and managed by her
13:24husband as mentioned linnell who's also an active fighter campaigning as a waterweight so they indeed
13:30are keeping it in the family referee steve murph brings them together there's the bell signifying
13:36round one scheduled for six two-minute rounds and right off the bat deirdre comes out winging you
13:43know you can see that deirdre has the skills here the big advantage she has the strength she weighs a
13:48little more clearly the better player the aggressive deirdre gogert puts stroman on the canvas seconds
13:55into the first round she gets a standing eight count from the referee steve murph and we continue
14:01first knockdown came 12 seconds into round number one and there she goes again the towel gets thrown in
14:11by husband linnell and she is down in her face no need to count let's just hope she's all right bobby
14:18she is out she got hit with a very clean right hand and you can see deirdre gogertie already takes this
14:24seriously good form good defense keeps her hands up doesn't just come in wing as some of the ladies
14:29have we've seen comes in here very professionally ready to work steve fast work by deirdre gogertie now
14:35of course the concern is for the medical condition of deborah stroman let's just hope and pray that she's
14:40all right oh that's a good sign her eyes are open and she is responding deirdre gogertie upping her
14:48record to 17 4 and 2 with 16 knockouts with a convincing decisive hammer job over deborah stroman
15:01and the concern continues to be for deborah as they uh attend to her over there the house position on hand
15:12a very concerned husband linnell stroman you know that has to be hard we talked about that before with
15:18christy martin her husband jim works the corner that has to be very difficult emotionally
15:27she went down twice the fight stopped almost immediately after the second knockdown the first
15:33knockdown came about 12 seconds in they will see the first knockdown again gogertie's coming out
15:37strong has much better form stroman's a little while hands flailing trying to defend herself just
15:43getting caught up in all the punches a good left hook there a little bit off balance not the cleanest
15:47of knockdowns it's another look at it from a different angle first knockdown it's a good left
15:52hook and again you can see stroman's feet are just not under there's no real form there she gets hit
15:57with a good left hook one leg flips up one legs in the air and it's it's a half balance fair shot the
16:03second knockdown however considerably better shot here you'll see the second knockdown she gets hit with
16:10the right hand coming up right here nice straight right hand gogertie's working behind the jab in
16:14combinations she works in here with one two and that right hand is clean on the jaw temple area bobby this
16:20is obviously a gross mismatch does nothing positive for women's boxing
16:26as we take another look at the pounding the end of the fight as deborah stroman goes down one of the
16:35biggest problems that women's boxing faces is with mismatches and that translates into uh health
16:41problems and danger problems and we we saw it here let's go up to jimmy lennon jr right now for the official
16:48word ladies and gentlemen we have the time of 43 seconds of round number one our referee in charge
17:02steve murph calls a halt to the contest she's the winner by way of knockout dangerous deedra gogertie
17:11well next up she's scheduled to fight for the wibf super featherweight title
17:16probably in february or march as deirdre gogertie uh improves her record to 17 4 and 2
17:24and deborah stroman slips to 6 and 4 but uh thankfully she is all right after that
17:33pounding she took from this young lady originally from dublin ireland now makes her home in lafayette
17:38louisiana because they do not allow professional boxing in ireland the victor
17:45deirdre gogertie so it's one down four to go coming up next here at the nashville arena the
17:52first of four consecutive world championships the battle for the wbo heavyweight title
17:57and six foot seven henry akinwande will defend his crown against fellow englishman scott welch
18:03the wbo's number one rated heavyweight so it's akinwande versus welch coming up after post-fight
18:10interviews from our first bout and for that we go to our man of the ring bobby chez
18:17thank you steve deirdre short work uh could you really learn that much from this particular fight
18:21you really didn't get much work tonight uh no i didn't get a lot of work but i didn't know anything
18:26about my opponent going into the fight so i wanted to um go straight to her and uh see what she had
18:32and um i caught her pretty early with the left hook i really felt it land good and uh i wanted
18:37to get to her body and then follow up to the head and uh it got her out pretty early yeah we didn't
18:42get a chance to do too much body work because she wasn't really in the fight skills were certainly
18:46far better where do you go from here do you have female opponents that you see down the road for you
18:50in the future that can bring you to a bigger and better level oh yeah there's a lot of talented uh
18:55women out there and uh there's definitely going to be a much harder fights down the road for me and
19:01um i'm going to be fighting for the world featherweight type super featherweight title
19:05pretty soon against bonnie canino and that will be a real good fight for everybody to see we're
19:09gonna have to take a look at the knockdowns here we'll let you call this is the first knockdown call
19:13them as you see it yeah well uh i wanted to try and get to the body i threw a left hook to the body
19:20there and she she managed to turn away and i wanted to get the left hook in again and follow
19:26up to the head i kind of uh felt a little bit awkward there because i felt a bit awkward getting
19:35in but um i guess you know i wanted to get it out early so now here's the second knockdown certainly
19:41the end of the fight a better right hand let's let's hear it yeah um yeah i really felt the left
19:46hook went land well so i tried to get it in again there's a right hand i just missed her with the
19:52left hook at the end there but i thought the fact that she'd been off for so long that she probably
19:57was going to be very rusty was that part of your incentive to jump on her right away yeah you know
20:01i knew she'd be kind of cold in that first round and so i wanted to get to her early and uh you know
20:07she might not have been sharp and uh i wanted to take advantage of that so that's that's why i kind
20:13of jumped well you certainly did that i've seen you before obviously with christie in las vegas
20:16very impressive they're tough i've jokingly said to you earlier you have a great chin because the
20:20scene takes you tremendous shots what have you done since that fight to work on your skills yeah
20:24well i've done a lot more boxing in the gym and i'm getting really good sparring from jason papillon
20:30and eric griffin and uh generally working on better uh boxing and uh counter punching and hopefully
20:38i'll get more fights in my own weight division this is probably the first girl i fought that weighed in
20:42lighter than me so it was kind of nice for a change well i'll tell you based on what happened
20:47not too many of the ladies that are lighter than you were probably going to step up and try
20:50but you gave us a great performance here today we wish you continued success and we'll take it now
20:54back to ringside and steve albert thank you very much bobby chez coming up next the wbo heavyweight
21:01championship as we go into the dressing room of the champion henry akinwonte
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