Unknown Thompson upsets Guinn	by Ron Jackson
Posted on 30 June 2006 - 14:00

Heavyweight Tony Thompson scored an upset points victory over highly regarded Dominick Guinn in San Jose, California, on Wednesday night.

Thompson won on points over 12 rounds. The scores were 119-109, 118-110 and 117-111.

The 34-year-old Thompson, a southpaw whose record now stands at 28-1 (17 stoppages), started off slowly but began to dominate in the later rounds, using his jab to good effect against the shorter Guinn.

This was an impressive performance from the largely unknown Thompson and a possible the end of Guinn’s career.

On the undercard, unbeaten junior welterweight Lorenzo Reynolds stopped Joaquin Gallardo in the second round.

Gallardo suffered a bad gash over his left eye from what looked like a clash of heads. However, the referee called it a punch and awarded the fight to Reynolds.

Sapa-AFP reports from Bangkok that Thailand's Pongsaklek Wonjongkam retained his WBC flyweight title by beating Mexico's Everardo Morales in a fight that was stopped in the fourth round.

Peter McNeeley, MIke Tyson's opponent in his first fight after his prison sentence, has been arrested on on charges that he was behind the wheel of a getaway car after a drug-store robbery in Boston. Tyson stopped McNeeley in 89 seconds.

The WBC welterweight title fight between Arturo Gatti and Carlos Baldomir on July 22 in Atlantic City has attracted much interest and the promoters say only 300 tickets are still available.

Thomas Hauser, one of the most respected boxing writers in the world, has produced another collection of columns in book form. The title is I Don't Believe It But It's True". It includes chapters on Oscar De La Hoya, Mike Tyson and Don King and also a behind-the-scenes look at the television reality show "The Contender".