By Compiled from Times wires
Published May 18, 2003
Anwar Oshana made the mistake of trying to trade punches with Jeff Lacy in their bout Saturday night at Reno, Nev., and it cost the 30-year-old a technical knockout.
St. Petersburg's Lacy (14-0), the USBA super middleweight champion, unleashed on Oshana against the ropes to end the first round, and the fight was halted at 1:49 of the second round when Oshana stopped trading punches while being battered by the former Olympian.
The bout basically turned into another opportunity for Lacy to show off his considerable power while waiting for more important fights with title implications.
It was Oshana's first fight in almost a year. Oshana (23-3) has fought just five times since 1997 (he was knocked out in the third round twice in those five).
Martinez-Campbell draw surprises the crowd
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Tiger Martinez had to be content with a draw instead of an upset victory.
The junior lightweight from New York was impressive in earning a standoff against heavily favored Nate Campbell of Jacksonville, a former Tampa-based fighter, in a 10-round bout.
The crowd, which cheered Martinez, and the judges disagreed on the outcome. Barbara Perez favored Martinez 95-93, but Melvina Lathan had Campbell winning 95-93 and John Poturaj had it 94-94.
Campbell (23-1-1) said he was more bothered by the memory of his last fight, a loss to Joel Casamayor on Nov. 25, than by Martinez.
SPADAFORA-DORIN: IBF champion Paul Spadafora (36-0-1), outpunched most of the fight and never able to get any momentum going despite a vocal hometown crowd, and WBA champ Leonard Dorin (20-0-1) fought to a draw in a lightweight title unification fight in Pittsburgh. Both hoped the bout would be a springboard to a bout with WBC champion Floyd Mayweather that would unite all three titles, but the draw only further muddled the division.
