In a rematch of their October clash in Montreal, Orangeville Ontario’s Logan Mcguiness attempted to duplicate his efforts against the tough Jorge Banos, who is coming off a two fight win streak. In their last lightweight encounter, Logan won a four round unanimous decision, dropping Jorge in the fourth round.

McGuinness began the opening round with digging shots to the body and jabbed his way into Banos’s guard. Jorge failed to connect back with anything significant, as Logan showed quick reflexes and lateral movement to evade any punches. McGuinness threw more hooks to the body and trapped Jorge into the corner unloading power shots. Suddenly stunned, Banos took a knee and received a standing eight count. After the ref let Banos continue, McGuinness stalked his opponent to the side ropes where heavy uppercuts and a straight knocked Banos down. Beating the count, Banos took another hard straight before his corner threw in the towel. Official time of 2:17 of the first round. McGuinness stays undefeated at 11-0-1, 5KOs, while Banos drop to 6-7-3.

Undefeated cruiserweight Denton Daley of Mississauga continued his winning ways as he clashed with fellow unbeaten Montrealer Pasteur Mbuyi. Daley in his third pro fight of the year is trained by former two-time world title challenger Syd Vanderpool. Mbuyi (2-1), the least active fighter of the two, would only have his third fight in the past two years.

Mbuyi started off the first round by clinching and hitting behind Daley’s head. Daley was effectively slipping punches and countered by firing his jab. Denton was hooking off most of the clinches and threw thudding body shots as the round came to a close.

The next round appeared to have the first and only knockdown of the match as Daley threw an uppercut which clearly sent Mbuyi to the canvas. The Hershey Centre crowd went frantic but it was not be as the referee ruled it a slip. Pasteur tried to rally back with a few flurries near the end of the round, but most of his punches failed to cause any damage.

Round three saw more holding and clinching. A clash of heads resulted in warnings for both fighters. After the break, Pasteur landed a left uppercut and attempted to follow up. Denton, showing visible signs of fatigue, slipped some of the barrage but not all. The fourth and final round saw Daley go back to firing his jab to outbox Mbuyi from the outside. Pasteur connected with an overhead right and Daley countered back with hard lefts and rights. Pasteur ended the round strong but it was not enough as judges scored the bout 39-37 (twice) and 39-6 all in favor of Denton Daley, who improves to 3-0 (1Ko). Mbuyi drops to 2-1.

In a light middleweight contest, Orangeville’s Ryan Wagner took on the more experienced Chris Aucoin, who is coming off of his most impressive win against veteran Ian MacKillop.

In the opening stanza, both fighters circled each other with Wagner peppering Aucoin with jabs. Aucoin chose instead to lead in with a left hooks and was dropped after attempting a sloppy uppercut.

Round two was more of the same as Wagner was clearly the better technical boxer of the two. Wagner chased Aucoin around the ring and landed some scoring shots. Aucoin had no answer and relied on clinching and brawling from the inside. Wagner continued to land with straights and hooks, finishing impressively at the end.

Round three saw Wagner end matters in tremendous fashion with a hard jab and straight right which knocked Aucoin down and out. Official time of the KO was 36 seconds of the third round. With the impressive victory Wagner moves to 2-0, 1KO while Aucoin falls to 3-3-1.

In the opening bout of the evening, Jonas Pierce made his debut against Horace Hunter (0-1) in a 4 round light heavyweight bout. Pierce utilized the jab and threw often to the body. His inexperience showed as he would lunge in at Hunter with off balance punches and footwork. Hunter took advantage of this, becoming the aggressor the rest of the fight.

Nearing the end of the bout, both fighters had very little left in the tank, restoring to mostly holding and clinching. Hunter tried to go for the knockout and was clearly the stronger of the two as the final bell rang. The judges saw the fight differently than those watching in the crowd, scoring the bout 39-37 across the board for Pierce. The Hershey centre crowd voiced their displeasure at the officials and thought that Hunter had done enough to get the nod. Pierce moves to 1-0 while Hunter, still in search of his first victory, falls to 0-2.

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