January 30, 2013 at 5:54 p.m.
Boxers pick up four wins
There were also victories for heavyweight hairdresser Josh Smith and policeman Asaph Rawlins. First-time fighter Lloyd Peterkin almost made it 5-0 for the team, from Bermuda police boxing gym, but lost out on a controversial points decision.
The event, on Friday, featured boxers from the Massachusetts State Police, the Denver Police Department and other Massachusetts police agencies.
Teenage fighter Kamel Dickinson, who only stepped in the ring for the first time last September, extended his unbeaten record comfortably taking care of Brian Jeffers of the Denver Police Department.
The 19-year-old made good use of a longer reach and a 14-pound weight advantage to dominate the fight and compile a unanimous points victory.
His career record now reads an impressive four victories from four fights.
Earlier middleweight boxer Trott, who is the current Arizona Golden Gloves champion, had been first up against Macolm Morales from the Uptown Boxing Gym in Southbridge.
The 20-year-old performed well and took a split-points victory over Morales, a recent Golden Gloves finalist, to improve his record to five wins and two-losses.
In the next bout, Josh Smith, one of the island's top fighters took on Barnstable cop Tom Toomey, a veteran of 13 bouts. Smith outclassed his opponent and demonstrated good general ringmanship, controlling the bout throughout to take a unanimous points decision and improve his record to 7-2. Later in the night Asaph Rawlins overcame a significant weight disadvantage to record an impressive victory in the Super Heavyweight division. Rawlins (217lbs) gave away 50lbs to the local favourite Mark “Chewy” Williams (267lbs) of the Barnstable Police.
But the smaller fighter dictated the pace and boxed intelligently from the outside whilst weathering the occasional bombardment from Williams.
With a split-points decision, Rawlins built his own unbeaten record to 3-0 and improved the team's performance for the day to four wins from four bouts.
Bermuda's final competitor had to wait until the last bout of the evening to try to bring about a clean sweep.
Heavyweight Lloyd Peterkin was boxing for the first time against fellow-novice R.W. Henson of the Centerville/Osterville Fire Department.
Peterkin put on a masterful display of power jabbing, supported by effective right crosses as he dominated the first two rounds and repeatedly snapped Henson's head back. But he couldn’t maintain the active pace into the third round where a lack of conditioning slowed him down, but he still held his own to round out the bout, confident that Bermuda had swept all opponents.
Inexplicably, two of the three judges scored the bout to Henson, resulting in Bermuda’s only loss of the night. Henson later acknowledged that Peterkin should have been awarded the bout which offered some consolation to the novice fighter for his efforts.
The Bermuda Police Boxing team will continue training in preparation for a tour to London in June when they will form part of a combined community boxing team to compete against a team from the Police and Community Boxing Association of England. n
Craig Morfitt is the president of the Bermuda Police Boxing Association[[In-content Ad]]
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