It was a night of championship boxing in Montebello, California as All Star Promotions put on a night of world class boxing. Featured in the Main Event was a battle for the vacant NABA and USA Light Heavy title between Anatoliy Dudchenko (17-2, 11 KO's) vs. Sabou Ballogou (8-7, 3 KO's).

Also on the card was the unexpected return of Ismayl Sillakh (18-1, 14 KO's) who after stringing together 17 straight victories unexpectedly fell to Denis Grachev last April. Sillakh who now calls himself "Smile" was up against Daniel Allotey (14-4, 2 KO's).

In the main event Dudchenko came into the ring looking a lot like Ivan Drago from Rocky. That is where the resemblance ended as the Ukrainian fighter had a strange awkward style that was as hard to watch as it was as hard for his foe Ballogou to figure out.

With arms outstretched but doing little punching Dudchenko was frustrating Ballogou who could not figure out how to get inside the robotic defense. For the first two rounds it was a lot of clinching and holding with occasional punches landing.

It was around the third round that Ballogou just started diving in out of frustration and the action picked up and punches were landing from all angles. After a few rabbit punches you could see Dudchenko had finally frustrated his opponent to the point of desperation and that spelled doom for Ballogou.

In round five Dudchenko put together a barrage of punches that staggered and dropped Ballogou who was left helpless by the blows. Referee David Mendoza halted the bout at the 2:29 mark of round six and Dudchenko picked up the vacant light heavyweight belts.
 

In the semi-main event Ismayl Sillakh made his return, this time as a cruiser-weight and was looking to pick up the pieces of his career that was seemingly shattered by a KO loss last year. "Smile" went up against Daniel Allotey who was no match for the tough Ukrainian.

From the onset there was no doubt Sillakh was there to make it known that his lone loss was in the past and he was ready to move on to his title aspirations. With patient and pinpoint accuracy Sillakh systematically picked Allotey apart in round one and almost stopped him before the first three minute stanza.

In round two Sillakh moved in for the kill and with a bevy of strong punches Allotey visited the canvas two times before the fight was brought to a merciful halt at the 2:45 mark.

Siilakh is back and it looks like he picked up right where he left off before his untimely loss last year. No doubt he will be a fighter to be reckoned with no matter what weight he chooses to make his mark.
 

In a Jr. Welter snoozer Brian Jones (17-2, 3 KO's) decisioned Johnny Frazier (2 11-4, 2 KO's) over four dull rounds of boxing Final scores read 39-36, 40-35 & 38-37 all in favor of Jones.
 

The opening bout pitted tough heavyweights Charles Martin (5-0, 5 KO's) vs. Anthony Hyson (0-2). This toughman like slugfest was short on skills and long on wild punching while it lasted. It only took until 2:57 of round one as Martin KO'd Hyson and kept his perfect KO streak of alive.