Jason Estrada: "I Wuz Robbed!” (FULL REPORT)

Jerry Glick reporting: Heavyweight Jason Estrada held very little back at the post fight press conference after dropping a unanimous decision to former IBF Cruiserweight Champion turned heavyweight, Tomasz Adamek. He was angry, not so much for losing the decision, but more because of the scoring of the judges, one of which gave the Polish Adamek as much as ten of the twelve rounds contested.

“If I lost I’ll take it,” screamed a very upset Estrada. “But for me to come here and bust my ass for eight and a half weeks and get done like this, there is no way that I am just going to take it.”

When one reporter said that is what home field advantage is it further whipped the flame that raged in the Providence, Rhode Island battler.

“Home field advantage,” he said, with his voice rising as he repeated the reporters statement. “This is boxing; you’ve got to be fair. If I lost a close decision, okay, but don’t do me like that? You can kiss me. I didn’t even get kissed. That’s how bad I got f**ked!”

It was closer than Tomasz Adamek’s fans thought and hoped it would be but the Polish favorite who holds the IBF International Heavyweight Championship won a unanimous decision over Jason Estrada after twelve hard fought rounds before 10,123 screaming fans at the sold out Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Main Event’s exciting seven fight show.

It was a fairly quiet opening round as both competitors tested the waters before committing. Estrada gained a slight advantage shooting a few rights to his foes head and body. Not a lot landed but it was Estrada who was busier. Round two was Adamek’s who came out faster attempting to pick up the pace. He worked behind his jab, but Estrada manages to land a counter-punch with his right only to absorb a hard right himself at the end of the round.

Adamek’s right eye began to swell as Estrada began pumping his left hook with success in the third. By the fourth both had suffered eye damage with Estrada showing a mouse under his left eye. By now they were trading punches with the Polish star getting in more shots.

Most of the rounds from two through eight belonged to Adamek according to the three judges and secondsout agreed with that assessment. The final four frames were close as Estrada sensing that he may need a big finish appeared to be going for it.

They traded punches throughout their encounter. Estrada tried to use skills to get his punches in on target, but Adamek took charge down the stretch until the twelfth and final stanza when he appeared to be content to coast. The Judges gave it to Adamek by scores of 118-110, 116-112 (as did secondsout), and 118-113. Adamek improves to 40-1 (27 KOs), while Estrada saw his record fall to 16-3 (4 KOs).

In a less than scintillating encounter, Brooklyn, NY’s undefeated “Kid Chocolate” Peter Quillin, had to shake off some rust and get his arms moving again after suffering a broken hand, followed by appendicitis, which kept him on the shelf for seventeen months, to win a unanimous eight round decision over veteran contender, Ecuador’s Fernando Zuniga in a super-middleweight battle.

After a feeling out round, Quillin step it up in the second round landing a couple of rights as they traded. Then in the next round Zuniga suffered a cut over the right eye from an unintentional butt. It had no effect on the outcome. Quillin was hit by two rights but stunned his opponent with a harder right of his own.

They began to get sloppy by round four of this ten round encounter. The fifth was another sloppy round that saw them do a lot of wrestling inside. Zuniga, 164, had a mouse under his left eye before the round ended. By the seventh the 37 year old Ecuadorian began to tire. His punches looked feeble compared to a much fresher Kid Chocolate.

Zuniga still kept it close as the fight remained a wrestling match on the inside. The Judges scored it for Quillin, 100-90 twice, and 98-92. Quillin, 163 ½, improved to 21-0 (15 KOs) while Zuniga watched his record to fall to 28-10 (14 KOs). David Fields refereed.

The Undercard:

The swing bout, a four rounder between unbeaten Sadam Ali, 145, 5-0 (2KOs), Brooklyn, NY, and Jason Thompson, 146, 5-5-1 (4 KOs), Brooklyn, NY, was fought after the main event so the sellout crowd of 90% people of Polish decent there to cheer for Adamek left leaving a sparse group to watch Ali use speed of hand and foot to outbox and out fight his foe taking a unanimous decision with all three judges agreeing, 40-36 for Ali. Ref: Fields.

In the only knockout of the night Ismayl Sillakh, 185 ½, 10-0 (9),Ukraine, decked Larry Pryor, 188 ½, 6-6 (4), Houston, TX, twice the third and once more in the fourth and final round prompting referee Fields to stop the fight at :47 of the round.

Patrick Farrell, 202, 5-0 (3), Jersey City, NJ, had too many guns for shorter Jon Schneider, 192, 7-5-1 (5 KOs), Bronx, NY, putting the Fighting Marine on the deck in the first and third of the scheduled four round affair, taking all three Judges votes by scores of 40-34 twice and 40-33. Again, Fields refereed.

Undefeated Denis “Momma Boy” Douglin went nose to nose for six full rounds taking a very hard fought unanimous duke over Eddie Hunter, 167, 3-2-1 ( KO), Seattle, WA. Scores: 60-54 two times and 59-55. Steve Smoger refereed.

Przemyslaw Majewski, 165, 12-0 (7 KOs), Random, Poland, was too aggressive for Anthony Pietrantonio, 164, 6-4 (5 KOs), Youngstown, OH, pressing him all over the ring for the entire six rounds. Majewski landed to the head and body. He appeared to hurt Pietrantonio in the third and sixth rounds. All three Judges scored it 60-54 for the man from Poland. Smoger refereed.

PUNCHLINES

Kathy Duva of Main Events congratulated Adamek for his focus. He did not look past Estrada at his proposed next opponent, Chris Arreola.

Secondout asked her whether the fight was written in stone yet.

“No,” she answered, “But we’re talking.”

Tomasz Adamek said that he is very comfortable at his new, heavier weight, 220 pounds.
“I feel fine,” said the ex-champ. “That’s my natural weight.”
Will he weigh more for the huge Arreola? He said, “No, I will fight at my natural weight.”