Urango steals the show, Literally!
 By Benny Henderson Jr. (July 1, 2006)
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Juan Urango
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The ugly beast of blatant bull crap reared its ugly head last night at the Seminole “Hard Rock Live” Arena in Hollywood, FL on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights when Juan Urango 17-0-1 (13 KO’s) was wrongly awarded the vacant IBF Junior Welterweight title against the tough Australian Ben Rabah 24-2 (13 KO’s) via unanimous decision.
The hard hitting Columbian came out looking for the knock out stalking a very much mobile Rabah but hit mostly air tasting the continuous pop shots that Rabah was throwing out. Juan was pressing forward looking one dimensional offering up only spurts of any meaningful scoring walking in on Rabah without a jab, while the elusive Rabah picked away at the soon to be undefeated newly crowned champion.
Rabah’s awkward style gave Urango trouble throughout the entire bout, Rabah was effective at a distance keeping away from any offence Urango was trying out, bobbing head movement and wild winging shots that hit nothing but air was pretty much what Urango had to offer up. To be blunt the 2000 Olympian out boxed, outworked, out jabbed,
outclassed and definitely out pointed the hometown favorite Juan Urango the entire bout never losing pace for the duration of the twelve round fight, and even though Urango was schooled in pugilistic 101 Rabah was teaching most of the bout the judges gave the hometown decision to Urango, 116-112, 115-113 and 117-111, a disappointing distasteful decision that robbed the twenty-eight year old Rabah from the 140-pound title, which he clearly deserved.
It is what it is, a robbery, plain and simple, no ifs ands or buts about it, and although I like Juan Urango as a fighter there is no way he earned the strapt, and all though I like Juan Urango as a fighter there is now way he earned the strap. It wasn’t a textbook performance for Rabah, but he was the most effective of the two, landing 32% of his punches, to Urango’s 17%, it would of appeared to have been a clear cut W for Rabah, but as I stated above…it was a steal! So let’s all get up out of our seats and give the judges a standing ovation, job well done fellows, your lack of the fundamentals of math once again gives the ‘sweet science’ a sour face!
To open up the show for Friday Night Fights, Ring magazine’s number seven ranked Cruiserweight Dale Brown 35-5-1 (22 KO’s) was set to win against the rough journeyman Shane Swartz 18-4 (12 KO’s) in a scheduled ten round bout, but instead of a W Brown was handed a L in a shocker.
The two fighters went at it in the first round with Brown coming out slowly setting a dawdling pace which proved fatal for him when the two clashed heads in the fourth round, leaving a bloody gash over Swartz’s forehead which sent the fight to the cards. Shane a Colorado native who has went 1-3 in his last four bouts, being stopped in two got the TD by the score of 49-46, 50-45 and 50-45, giving Swartz a stunning win and leaving Brown speechless.
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