PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The experienced Trinidad and Tobago boxer Floyd Trumpet easily defeated Mark Murray but three of Murray’s Guyanese colleagues scored three wins on the Cosmic Promotions’ five-fight card on Saturday night.
Trumpet stopped Murray at two minutes, 57 seconds of the second round to win by technical knockout (TKO) in the main event on the card at the Cosmic Boxing Gym in Marabella.
The win improved Trumpet’s log to 16 wins (8 knockouts) against eight losses and two draws.
The result was also the third consecutive win for Trumpet, who unsuccessfully challenged American Grady Brewer for the International Boxing Association (IBA) light middleweight title in North Carolina, USA, in January 2005.
Former T&T amateur standout Kevin Diaz made an impressive pro debut while visiting Guyanese Dexter Gonzalez, Leon Dover and the undefeated Joe McCrae all registered wins on the competitive card.
The impressive middleweight McCrae stretched his record to 6-0 (3 knockouts) when he stopped Barbadian Kevin Neverson in the first round.
Diaz pounded Guyana’s John Henry to score a third-round TKO win in a light middleweight contest.
In two lightweight bouts, Gonzalez earned a stirring split decision win over Prince Lee Isadore over four rounds and Dover stopped local boxer Mark Alexander at 2:30 of the second round.
