CLEVELAND GOLDEN GLOVES Campbell boxer claims 132 crown

Chris Hazimihalis won by technical knockout in the second round.
WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS -- For the second consecutive Saturday, Chris Hazimihalis, the 17-year-old boxer from Campbell, had an impressive victory, but this time it won him a championship at the Cleveland Golden Gloves.
A week ago, Hazimihalis won a four-round decision in an amateur fight card at the Krakusy Hall.
Saturday night at the Metroplex Athletic Facility, Hazimihalis stepped up with his power punching as he stopped Joe Carson from the Giachetti Athletic Club at the 1:10 mark of the second round to win the 132-pound novice championship.
Local flavor
Hazimihalis (8-1) was one of two champions representing the Youngstown Southside Boxing Club. The other was Charlie Fagan, who won the 119-pound novice crown by walkover.
Hazimihalis went to work early in the first round with a barrage that had the referee give Carson a standing eight-count. A three-punch combination, a straight right, a left hook and a right cross, inside the first minute of round two had Carson taking another eight-count. Seconds later, a right cross followed by a left hook to Carson's head had the referee stop the fight.
"I just listened to my corner and did what I had to do to win," said Hazimihalis.
The man he listened to, Southside Boxing Club trainer Jack Loew, said, "When Chris is serious about boxing and trains as hard as he has in the last month, he can be as good as he wants to be. He has improved greatly in his last two bouts with hand speed and ring movement that can take him a long way."
Close loss
Zack Page, the Warren heavyweight who is trained by Tom Cordell, was going for back-to-back Cleveland titles, but lost a close four-round decision to Norman Mills from the Glenville Boxing Club.
Warren's Nate Adams and Akron's Kenny Porter had a box-off at the Old School Gym in Cleveland Sunday for the open 165-pound championship. This was after both fought and won Saturday night in two semifinal bouts.
Porter, fighting for his father at the Rubber City Boxing Club, defeated Danilo Calabron, and Adams, fighting for Reggie Revere's Boxing Academy in Youngstown, gained a hard-fought four-round decision over William Prieto from Akron's Good Shepherd Boxing Club.
Adams used body shots and a quick left jab to keep off the bull-like rushes of the clinching and grabbing Prieto to get the decision.
Auto accident
Revere, who claimed a 178-pound sub-novice championship with 17-year-old Derrick Eggleston's decision victory Friday night, went home Saturday night with Adams. In returning to Cleveland for an 11 a.m. fight Sunday, they were in an automobile accident and both were shaken up, but they went to Cleveland for the title bout, which was won by Porter.
It was a four-round decision that could have gone either way. Adams started slow and wasn't busy in the first two rounds, but in the third round he began to take over the fight. Three times in the fourth round he staggered Porter with jarring left hooks, but when the fight was over the judges voted unanimously for Porter.
Revere, disappointed in the decision, said, "Nate has a ton of talent and he will be a force to be reckoned with in the future. He showed me a lot in these Cleveland Gloves, fighting three guys with a lot more experience, and more than holding his own against all of them."