Official weights are in for tonight's Patriot Center boxing event featuring Jimmy Lange, William Joppy and others.
10 Rounds – Jimmy Lange (154 lbs.) vs. Joe Wyatt (151 lbs.)
10 Rounds - William Joppy (169 lbs.) vs. Cory Cummings (167 lbs.)
6 Rounds - Todd Wilson (141 lbs.) vs. Corey Goodwin (141 lbs.)
6 Rounds - Perry Ballard (153 lbs.) vs. Booker Mullins (151 lbs.)
6 Rounds - Jonathan Reid (162 lbs.) vs. Mike McFail (165 lbs.)
6 Rounds - Zain Shah (159 lbs.) vs. Omar Sims (163 lbs.)
4 Rounds - Brandon Quarles (155 lbs.) vs. Lawrence Jones (155 lbs.)
Fight Preview
· Popular Northern Virginia fighter Jimmy Lange (33-4-2, 23 KOs) returns to headline his 11th Patriot Center show when he faces Joe Wyatt (23-1, 15 KOs) in a ten-round championship bout for the North American Boxing Association’s (NABA) vacant 154-pound U.S title (NABA is a division of the World Boxing Association/WBA). The former star from season one of The Contender has won his last two bouts but will step up in competition to face in Wyatt, a former top 20 world contender whose only loss was to undefeated Reda Zam Zam for the WBA’s Inter-Continental light middleweight title.
· Looking to capture his 40th career win in front of his hometown fans, former three-time, middleweight world champion William Joppy (39-6-1, 30 KOs) of Washington, DC will take on battle-tested Cory “Black Ice” Cummings (17-4, 13 KOs) of Baltimore. Joppy has taken on elite competition such as Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins and Felix “Tito” Trinidad, while Cummings has gone toe-to-toe with the likes of Keith Holmes and Montell Griffin.
· Among the action-packed undercard, three fighters are looking to remain undefeated, including Fairfax, VA welterweight prospect Todd “White Lightning” Wilson (8-0, 2 KOs), a former Virginia Military Institute collegiate national champion, going up against Corey “Bad Boy” Goodwin (7-5, 4 KOs) of Columbia, SC.
· In another DC-Baltimore rivalry bout, Wilson’s unbeaten middleweight teammate Zain “Tiger” Shah (3-0, 2 KOs) of Chantilly, VA will have his hands full with confident Baltimore fighter Omar Sims (5-2, 3 KOs), who has won his last two fights by way of knockout.
· In a bout for local bragging rights, Alexandria Boxing Club’s Brandon Quarles (2-0), will square off against LA Boxing’s Lawrence Jones (3-2-2, 1 KO) of Chantilly, VA.
· Lange’s former Contender teammate Jonathan Reid (34-13-7, 19 KOs) of Nashville, TN will face Baltimore ring veteran Mike McFail (12-40-2, 4 KOs) in a six-round bout. Reid is coming off a loss to undefeated Caleb Truax while McFail dropped a six-round decision to Lange back in August. **Note**: Reid told us that although he's lost his last 9 fights, he's still looking forward to getting back into the ring. Said Reid, "Being on the card with Lange is having that brotherhood back again." **
· Junior middleweight Perry Ballard (20-2-1, 15 KOs) is set to return to the Patriot Center after appearing in the venue’s very first pro boxing card more than five years ago. The Martinsburg, WV fighter suffered his first pro loss at the hands of Lange before an electrifying crowd on September 17, 2005. He will face Booker Mullins (3-9) of Spartanburg, SC in a six-round contest.
See Fight Card here.
Weigh-in photo gallery here.
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