Two Rivers wins by technical knockout
TNT boxing’s third event - the second at the Action boxing club in Mercier - was another resounding success for the promotion formed by the partnership between FightQuest’s Peter Thomas and Joey Two Rivers.
“It was sold out, all action-packed fights, and the crowd loved it,” said Two Rivers of last Saturday’s card, which had a dozen amateur fights.
Of that dozen was Joey’s nephew, Slade Two Rivers, who, at 15 years old, was already in his fourth amateur fight.
Slade, who trains with Action boxing club and represented them on the card, took on Derek Lapierre from Boxe Matthew Carrier Inc.
In the first round, after an exchange of blows, Slade came out on top, with Lapierre losing the fight by technical knockout - essentially the referee stopping the fight due to the inability of one fighter to keep going, in the official’s mind.
“To be honest, I didn’t know what to expect,” said Slade of his mindset going into the fight. “All my opponents so far all had the same build, so I was expecting something like that, but he was completely different.”
Slade said Lapierre was very aggressive, and that they, more or less, made an unspoken agreement to start brawling and see who was left standing.
The only way to determine how hard your opponent will punch is to get punched, according to Slade, but once the first blow was felt, he knew he would have the upper hand in a brawl.
“Once I felt his punches, I knew I got him. He didn’t punch too hard. I knew I had the power advantage. When I’m training, I like to train on my power a lot to exchange punches that are a lot harder than my opponents,” said Slade.
“And I won. I won the exchanges that led to the TKO.”
Slade said he felt great about winning, especially by stoppage instead of by points, but he still felt he could improve some elements of his technique before the next time he climbs in the ring.
“Next fight, I can be a lot more technical, I can do a whole lot better than that, and be a lot cleaner,” said Slade. “I’ll train my feints and my head movements, and my footwork. I train those a lot, especially the feint, but during the fight I really did not feint that much.”
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The win brings Slade’s record to 3-1. After losing his first-ever fight, he has now won three straight contests and has won his last two fights by referee stoppage.
The other boxer from Kahnawake, Kael King, went the distance against Jonathan Robert from Boxe Matthew Carrier Inc. but lost his fight by majority decision. His record is now 1-1.
Slade said his next time in the ring for a fight will most likely be for the next TNT show in May at the Knights of Columbus.
