Alicia Ashley Wins WBC World Title at 48, Malik Scott Wins
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Brooklyn, NY (October 30th, 2015)– Against impossible age odds, 48 year old Alicia ‘Slick’ Ashley regained the World Boxing Council Female Super Bantamweight title with a ten round decision over Irish fighter Christina McMahon in the main event of Dmitriy Salita’s Brooklyn Brawl on October 29, 2015. The win will put Ashley into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2016 as the oldest female WBC and world boxing champion in the modern era to win and hold a title.
Ashley, a Jamaican fighting out of Brooklyn, New York, debuted in Atlantic City and won a split decision over six rounds in January 1999. A technical fighter, Ashley is 23-10-1 with four knockouts over her 16 year career. Ashley won her first female world title at featherweight in February 2002, then kept her career alive by going down in weight rather than up, winning a share of the world super bantamweight title in November 2002, and winning a share of the world bantamweight title in 2005. Between 2009 and the present, Ashley has fought in seven World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association world super bantamweight title bouts, winning seven of them.
Ashley had no trouble with the unbeaten but inexperienced 7-0 McMahon, 41, Monaghan, Ireland, winning on the scorecards in a runaway. In addition to becoming the oldest female world champion in history, Ashley became the oldest known fight to both fight in and win a world title bout in New York State history. Given, female boxing has not received the television and media attention it deserves, female boxers still have a strong contingency of fans and sell tickets. Heather Hardy, Amanda Serrano and Alicia Ashley are three of the best known world ranked female fighters to come out of the New York City area in recent years. Hopefully they will get more television recognition and better pay in the near future.
Result: Alicia Ashley Win 10 Christina McMahon, Super Bantamweights
Scoring: 100-89, 98-91, and 98-91 for Alicia Ashley. Two minute rounds.
14-0 top ten world ranked bantamweight Nicolai Potapov of Podolsk, Russia, in his first bout outside of Russia, won a ten round decision over Pedro Melo on the same card to win the Real Combat Media prospect of the month honors in the lower weights. Potapov, who went pro in 2010, has fought and won his last six bouts by decision over 10 and 12 rounds duration to win the distinction. The rugged Melo, from Tijuana, Mexico, fell to 13-11-2.
In the ‘Upset of the Year’ so far, unheralded Philadelphia heavyweight veteran Malik Scott, in an ‘I have nothing to lose’ situation, won a ten round upset decision over top ten world ranked Tony Thompson, setting himself up for a bigger fight with the win, perhaps against fellow Philadelphian Eddie Chambers in 2016.
Scott, 35, went pro in 2000, but went mostly unnoticed compiling his 38-2-1 record with 13 knockouts, reaching 35-0-1 before losing to Dereck Chisora and Deontay Wilder. Scott has drawn with Vyacheslav Glaskov, and won an upset decision in Australia over Alexi Leapai in his last outing. For the southpaw Thompson, 40-6 with 27 knockouts, Washington, D.C., who has beaten David Price twice and Odlanier Solis twice since losing to Wladimir Klitschko in a world title bout in Switzerland in 2012, a rematch would be his best option at age 44 if he is to remain in title contention. For Scott, with the win, his career can be said to have something to show for it. Some don’t. Thompson, a great fighter, lost to father time.
Thompson had Scott down in the ninth round with a short right to the head, but was unable to put him away. Thompson needed to win only one more round to win the bout on two scorecards, but could not as Scott rallied to win the tenth and final round-and the bout.
Result: Malik Scott Win 10 Tony Thompson, Heavyweights
Scoring: 98-91, 96-93, and 95-94 for Scott. Thompson knocked down Scott in round nine.
In the courage win of the month, 2-16-1 super middleweight Mark Till of Staffordshire, United Kingdom, with only one knockout to his credit, and winless in his last 13 outings, stopped Sam Piasecki on London in the first round, and sent the bookies to the cleaners.
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