WINKY BROUGHT THE WRIGHT STUFF – HE DOMINATED TRINIDAD
By Ron Brashear
Inside Boxing Writer/Columnist

(IB – May 13, 2005) – It just goes to show that when you seek out greatness, take on greatness, while all along believing you possess greatness as well, you can reign as a superstar! Ronald “Winky” Wright improved his record to (49-3, 25 KOs) and literally dominated Felix “Tito” Trinidad (42-2, 35 KOs) in practically a 12-round shutout in their WBC Middleweight title eliminator bout! The judges scored the bout 120-107, 119-108, 119-108 all for “Winky” Wright. Felix Trinidad was penalized a point for low blows in the 9th round. Can you imagine that? I don’t even believe the "Winky" Wright optimists believed it would turn out to be this one-sided. From the sound of the opening bell, “Winky” Wright controlled this fight with a stiff right jab. A jab with so much precision, it made the “Great” Felix Trinidad look so amateurish, that it just silenced the pro Trinidad capacity crowd! This fight turned out to be total mismatch.

Wright, the fighter that most champions have steered away from until Sugar Shane Mosley decided to be brave in 2004, and cost him two consecutive losses, will probably be avoided even more now. Ronald “Winky” Wright is a force to be reckoned with and it would stretch Hopkins’ Jermain Taylor, or De La Hoya’s skill sets to the limit for any of these three elite fighters to defeat to Wright. I would love to see any of these three match-ups.

Where does Trinidad go from here? He could perhaps still have a future in this sport, but he should avoid taking a re-match with “Winky” Wright. I think he will come to discover pretty soon that he just happen to run into a budding Superstar that can do that same thing to practically all of the fighters 154-160 lbs.

What a great story of Perseverance! It may have taken him almost 15 years to arrive at this level, but hats off to Ronald “Winky” Wright! He has arrived now and it couldn’t happen to a more humble and deserving guy! I hope he cashes in on this victory and continues on to do great things in this wonderful sport of boxing! The sport of boxing hasn’t witnessed an all-around southpaw fighter with that much skill, since watching the great defensive king “Sweet Pea” Pernell Whitaker in the late 80s and early 90s. I think “Winky” summed it up best after the fight by saying, “I keep proving myself over and over again.”

In the co-main event, Zab “Super” Judah (34-2, 25 KOs) successfully defended his undisputed Welterweight titles by knocking out Cosme Rivera (28-8-2, 20 KOs) at 2:11 of the 3rd round. Rivera was down twice in the 1st round and once in the 3rd round.

Under card:
William Grigsby (18-2, 7 KOs) captured the IBF Light Flyweight title by defeating Jose Victor Burgos by unanimous decision.
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