Sandpoint Medina, Flynn record boxing victories
WORLEY - Ivan Robinson has 20 more fights and tons more experience, but when the fight was on, Sandpoint's Favio Medina won his 19th fight by unanimous decision Thursday night in the House of Fury at the Coeur d'Alene Casino.
Medina took his time through the opening round, then turned up the heat round by round to eventually outgun Robinson (32-12-2).
“He surprised me because I thought he was going to come out a lot faster and he allowed me to get off early,” Robinson said. “I'm older and I figured he would try to wear me down. I knew it was going to be a tough fight coming in and he's a talented fighter.”
Medina worked the hook-right with efffectiveness most of the night. He staggered Robinson in the eighth and pinned him on the ropes again in the ninth. Robinson didn't have much left in the end and Medina finished with the heart of a lion.
“I felt like I had to test him out a little at first, but then he started getting lazy on his jab and I started coming over the top of it.” Medina said. “I started coming from the outside more. But I was able to get inside; but the thing my corner kept saying was ‘keep working,' and that's what I did.”
Missouri heavyweight Joe Stofle (11-13-2) of St. Charles just got more dangerous by the round. Skyler Anderson (10-1-1) from Newman Lake, Wash., had too much moxy, too much talent to lose, but Stofle, who looked like a Missouri Cabbage Patch Kid, just kept coming.
Anderson set him up in the first round, knocked him down in the second, won every round and the fight by unanimous decision. Anderson dissected him with jabs, hit him with an uppercut that sent him to the canvas, bombed him with right hand after right hand, and still Stofle was still standing in the end.
He even picked up a couple of local fans when he shouted “I love Idaho,” battered and bleeding at center ring when it was over.
“He gets big-time dangerous, when they get tired and they realize they're losing the fight, they just have to unload,” Anderson said. “I think I screwed up my (right) hand, I hit him right on the chin and he turned his head.
“But with a guy like this, you can't rush in or get careless because they're still dangerous.”
Josh Flynn (2-0) of Sandpoint won his second professional bout by technical knockout when Stanley Robinson (1-7-1) from Ogden, Utah, failed to answer the bell in the third round of their four-round, 147-pound bout.
Flynn spent most of the fight chasing the left-handed Robinson around the ring, before he withdrew complaining of a shoulder problem.
In other bouts:
n Ija Flappingeagle (3-1-1) of Boise brought the House of Fury to its feet from the opening bell and rewarded the crowd with a knockout that sent Sean Burke (2-1) of Orlando, Fla., through the ropes at 2:55 in the opening round of their scheduled six-round heavyweight bout.
Flappingeagle got inside on Burke's decisive reach and pinned the big man in the corner with a flurry of right hands. Burke tried to escape down the ropes, but the heavyweight from Boise caught him in the neutral corner and sent him through the ropes with another flurry and a big right hand to end it in the first round.
n erome Tabb (10-3) of Catskill, N.Y. , finished what he started, catching in the first , then knocking down Shane Andreesen ((10-0) of Qualicom Beach, British Columbia, twice in the sixth round to hand Andreesen his first professional loss.
Sixty-five seconds into the sixth and final round, Tabb ran across the ring to start the final round with a flurry. Andreesen had his best round in the fifth, but Tabb reestablished control with a nice hook, straight right hand combo to set things in motion.
The flurry brought Andreesen's hand down, setting up the big right hand that sent him to the canvas. He did get up, but Tabb brought the House of Fury to its feet with another barrage that sent him down for the second time.
n Villi Bloomfield (9-3-1) of Everett, Wash., outpointed Sam Comming (4-6) from Lansing, Mich., in their six-round heavyweight bout to win by unanimous decisiion.