Henry Lundy defeats Dannie Williams to retain his NABF lightweight gold successfully - Boxing News
Henry Lundy, the North American Boxing Federation (NABF) lightweight champion, successfully defended his gold for the second consecutive time against the surging fellow countryman Dannie Williams, the former WBC Continental Americas lightweight champion,
in a 10-round bout held on March 30, 2012.
The duo headlined ESPN’s weekly Friday night show ‘Friday Night Fights’ and put forth the audience an emphatic show of resilience, impressive pugilism, and agile footwork. The event was promoted by the trio of Jimmy Burchfield of CES Boxing, Steven Smith
of Rumble Time Promotions and Lou DiBella of DiBella Entertainment.
The ring for the event was setup at Foxwoods Resort situated in Mashantucket, Connecticut, United States and the night was co-headlined by the non-title eight-round skirmish between Elvin Ayala and Eric Mitchell.
Henry, 28, was entering in his career’s 24th encounter. The top ranked lightweight American pugilist boasted 21 wins and 11 of them by knockout. Infamous as the ‘Hammerin’ Hank’, Lundy collected his career’s only loss from the jabs of John Molina.
The surging brawler immediately came back on the winning track after nailing Omri Lowther in his next bout via unanimous decision and grabbed his NABF lightweight gold, later on, in a battle against Patrick Lopez.
Lundy collected an impressive 10-round unanimous decision in his favour to become the owner of the vacant gold and afterwards successfully defended it against heavily experienced David Diaz.
This was Lundy’s second title defence bout and against a pugilist of almost equal talent, capability and potential, Dannie Williams. The 27-year-old Dannie has been in a total 22 bouts and came out victorious in 21. He has nailed a whopping 17 opponents
by knockout and hence had a clear upper hand over Henry when it comes to KO ability.
The young lad was on a long win streak after collecting his career’s only loss from Eloy Perez and during his nine-bout wild ride obliterated many men some of them much more experienced than him.
Henry, from the very beginning, was careful and evaded most of Dannie’s powerful jabs but with only 40 seconds to go in the first round Williams was able to connect a powerful fist to Henry’s temple that threw him on the ring floor for few seconds and rattled
him.
This was the only punch that Williams connected and from then onwards, Henry controlled the pace of the whole bout. From the seventh round and onwards, Dannie literally got exhausted and his reflexes, punches, and agility got extremely sluggish which gave
ample chance to Lundy who targeted William’s body and face effectively.
During the last three rounds, Henry was the one who kept on battering the fatigued Williams every now and then. The 10-round skirmish ended and it was obvious that Henry has retained his gold authoritatively. The three designated judges gave 92-97, 92-97,
and 91-98 to Henry Lundy.
Lundy now has 22 wins in his account out of a total 24 skirmishes and Dannie, on the other hand, has collected his career’s second defeat.
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