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From Staff Reports
GREENVILLE, MS - Philadelphia featherweight Eric "The Outlaw" Hunter made the most of his first trip to Mississippi.
Fighting in the scheduled 8-round main event at Harlow's Casino on the Friday, April 30 card, Hunter stopped Atlanta's Jose Hernandez at 2:59 of the third round.
The TKO victory was the eighth straight for the 23-year-old Hunter since his 6-round split decision loss to Ecuador's Carlos Vinan in 2007 in Philadelphia.
In losing his second straight by stoppage, Hernandez dropped to 11-8-1, 5 KOs.
In the scheduled 6-round round co-feature, Batesville, AR female light middleweight April Ward made short work of Arkansas native Brittany Glendenning. Ward (6-1, 6 KOs) stopped Glendenning (2-1, 1 KO) at 49 seconds of the second round.
In 4-round bouts:
Atlanta's Donta Woods (6-0, 5 KOs) won a unanimous decision over Sardis, MS veteran William "Pete" Johnson (9-21-1, 3 KOs, light heavyweights;
Taureano Johnson, a 2008 Olympian from the Bahamas (3-0, 3 KOs), stopped 37-year-old Jackson, TN' vet Anthony Bowman (9-28-2, 2 KO) at 1:06 of the fourth round, light middleweights;
Batesville, AR's Mike Wagenblast (3-1, 1 KO) won a unanimous decision over Memphis resident Dedrick Bell (1-2, 1 KO); welterweights;
Georgia's Rohan Wilson (4-2-1, 1 KO) won a unanimous decision over New Mexico's Keuntray Henson (1-1), welterweights.
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