June 19 Upsets! Williams Tops Foreman. Underdogs Venegas, Centeno, Rosado, Silva Win
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Jimmy “Quiet Storm” Williams, a fighter belonging to CES Boxing President and promoter Jimmy Burchfield Sr., scored a major upset by winning an upset eight round majority decision over aging Yuri Foreman on Saturday, June 19, 2021, at Buckhead Fight Club in Atlanta, Georgia in a super welterweight crossroads bout.
Williams, 18-5-2 with six knockouts, age 34, New Haven, Connecticut, won the vacant Universal Boxing Organization International Super Welterweight title, and the vacant American Boxing Federation USA Super Welterweight title with the win. Foreman, 35-4 with ten knockouts, age 40, Brooklyn, New York, a former World Boxing Association World Super Welterweight champion, has probably reached the end of the road with this loss to a fighter who was unable to win any of his five bouts in 2019 and 2020 (0-4-1).
In the main event on the same card, 8-0 Mexican American Abel Aparicio of Atlanta, Georgia, was also upset, losing an eight round majority decision for the American Boxing Federation USA Featherweight title to Nicaraguan Juan Centeno of Miami, Florida.
On Saturday, June 19, 2021, at River Center, in Davenport, Iowa, 17-30-5 welterweight veteran Gilberto Venegas, age 44, Davenport, Iowa, scored a six round split decision upset over 15-4-2 Joe Perez of San Diego, California.
On Saturday, June 19, 2021, Touted 7-0 Uzbekistan super middleweight southpaw prospect Bektemir “Bully” Melikuziev got knocked out face first in the third round by veteran Gabriel Rosado, in a bout for the World Boxing Association Continental and the vacant World Boxing Organisation International Super Middleweight titles. Rosado, 26-13-1 with 15 knockouts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whose record is deceiving owing to top flight opposition, was down in the first round for an apparent count of nine. An overhand right to the jaw by Rosado knocked out Melikuziev face first, in a manner similar to The fourth round knockout of Manny Pacquiao by Juan Manuel Marquez in their fourth battle at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on December 8, 2012, often billed as the “Fight of the Decade”.
At Emperors Palace, Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa, on Saturday, June 19, 2021, 18-1 Thulani Mbenge of Eastern Cape, South Africa, scored a third round upset stoppage of 11-0 Jabulani Makhense of Pretoria, South Africa, to win the World Boxing Association Pan African Welterweight title.
46-year-old MMA star and UFC legend Anderson Silva, 2-1, age 46, Los Angeles, California, scored an eight round cruiserweight split decision upset over an overweight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., who came in two pounds over the contracted weight of 180 pounds and forfeiting one hundred thousand dollars of his purse, in addition to showing up out of shape and getting upset in the wrong weight class. Chavez, 52-5-1 with 34 knockouts, Culican, Sinaloa, Mexico, should go back to. middleweight or try another profession. His father, Hall of Fame multidivisional former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., age 58, l107-6-2 with 85 knockouts, Culican, Sinaloa, Mexico, was well-prepared and looked better than his son in his four round middleweight headgear exhibition against Hector “Macho” Camacho Jr., age 42, 59-7-1 with 33 knockouts, New York City. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez worked the corner of Chavez for the final round, providing sound advice.
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