By Larry Tornambe

Philadelphia, PA - Peltz Boxing and Joe Hand Boxing Promotions presented a fight card at the New Alhambra in south Philadelphia on Friday that was taped for broadcast today (Saturday) on Comcast’s CN8 for most of the northeast of the USA.  The main event featured undefeated super Bantamweights Teon Kennedy and Thomas Snow.  Snow, 122lbs came from Washington DC to challenge the hometown Kennedy over 8 rounds.

After a quick moving opening round Kennedy pushed the button on his missile with a left hook to Snow’s jaw.   A heavy flurry followed to force Snow to fall unconscious along the ropes and into a right hand.   Steve Smoger counted to 10 at 1:21 of the 2nd round.   With the KO win, Kennedy improves to 9-0 with 5 KO’s. Snow was clear when he left the ring although he suffers his first defeat and is now 10-1.

The co-feature brought Chuck Mussachio from Wildwood, NJ to battle New Castle, Delaware’s Richard Stewart.  Stewart, 174½ lbs, is a come forward and work the body kind of fighter, while Mussachio is a jabber who never looks pretty while being a ‘cutie’ in the ring.   Mussachio was repeatedly able to jab Stewart on his way in and puff both eyes.  But it was Stewart throwing the harder punches, even in the 2nd round when Mussachio unfurled a 17-power punch combination.  Stewart visited the canvas after that Chuck onslaught, only to get up and launch a left hook to shake Mussachio and spray the ringsiders with his sweat. 

Stewart turned the tide over the next 3 rounds while targeting the body and mixing in a few head shots.   Chuck seemed tired but Stewart was fresh as the fight evened midway through the scheduled 8-round Light Heavyweight bout.   Mussachio found his second wind and was just too fast and accurate with the jab over the final nine-minutes of the fight.  Mussachio gets the win by scores of 78-73, 76-75 and 77-74.  BoxingScene.com' scorecard mirrored the 78-73 tally.

Simon Carr was stunned by the first punch he accepted in the 1st round from Larry Robinson in a 6-round Cruiserweight bout.   I don’t feel that Carr ever mentally recovered from that instant.  He was holding too much and lunging in to grab Robinson for most of the bout.  Carr (190½ lbs) drops to 4-2-1 while Robinson improves to 10-3 with an inexplicable Majority Decision.  BoxingScene’s card equaled 59-55 for Robinson, agreeing with one official judge’s card, another judge gave Robinson the shutout at 60-54 and third judge had quite an odd view with a 57-57 scorecard.

Undercard:

Martinus Clay hurt Shawn Purdy in the 1st  round and sliced him open in the 3rd.   The doctor advised the bout be stopped due to the very bad cut cause by a punch.   Clay earns the victory at the end of the 3rd round and improves to 13-18-5.   Purdy seemed durable before the cut, but loses his 5th bout against 3 wins.

Dennis Hasson shut out Roberto Irrizarry over 4-rounds in a super middleweight bout.  With the 40-36 (three times) win he remains undefeated at 3-0.

Luis Esquilin wins his pro debut over Tommy Garcia over 4-rounds- junior lightweights.  Esquilin had the harder punches and was more aggressive and busier. 

Anthony Flores (131½ lbs) won his 3rd pro fight in as many outings by dropping Roman Guevara three times in the 4 rounds.

Peltz Boxing has August 29th on the books for the next fight card at the New Alhambra in south Philly.