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May 18, 2006 -
Providence, Rhode Island
Report by Ken Castro/Photos by Jerri Coli
 Photo gallery #361
by Jerry Coli
Too often championship
fights disappoint. This one did not.
In fact, the hyperbole leading up to the IWBF World Lightweight
Title fight between Jamie “the Hurricane” Clampitt and fellow Rhode
Islander Missy “the Fury” Fiorentino was exceeded only by the actual
events inside the ring.
Fiorentino, the current IWBF Featherweight Champion, scored a
unanimous (97-94, 96-94,96-94) decision over the Canadian native
before 1,512 highly vocal fans at the Rhode Island Convention
Center.
Fiorentino upped her record to 14-1 (6 KO) in wresting the crown
from Clampitt. Clampitt dropped to 16-4-1 with the disappointing
defeat.
For both fighters the stakes were elevated. History will show that
this was the first time a main event in the women’s division was
held in the Ocean State.
“It was intense,” said Fiorentino who came in at 131. “I tried to
relax an not get crazy in there, because I knew if I got crazy I’d
get wild and sloppy.” Fiorentino, as is her style, stayed in close proximity to Clampitt
throughout the opening rounds. Clampitt, who was coming off a long
layoff due to a broke hand, moved well in the early going.
“I kind of forced her to fight my fight. I knew she’s a good boxer
and she likes to move around. I knew I had to cut her off, keep her
on the inside,“ said the newly minted champion.
Clampitt stuck early, forcing a straight right past Fiorentino’s
defenses in the second. In the third round, Fiorentino working in
close again, landed a hard overhand right that stung Clampitt.
A few times I saw her hands drop and I thought that she was open for
the straight right and (trainer)Peter (Manfredo Sr.) kept telling me
to follow up with the hook,” said Fiorentino.
Manfredo said his boxer’s winning edge was honed in a California
training camp last month. “She sparred with six different women.
Some at 150, some at 160, some with boxing style, some with great
jabs-so we were ready for anything that she threw at us tonight. She
excelled at everything tonight, executed the plan perfectly,” he
said.
Clampitt and Fiorentino were visibly reluctant to ease up in the
level of intensity during the middle rounds, as evidenced by the
first clutch of the night, midway through the sixth round. In the
seventh, Fiorentino fired a trio of lefts at her opponent, the later
moving Clampitt back a step.
More
August 26, 2005 - Rhode Island
Convention Center, Providence, Rhode Island
In a scheduled 10-round IWBF lightweight championship,
Jaime
“Hurricane” Clampitt won a fourth round TKO over
Shelby
Walker. The event was promoted by "CES' Prime Time Fights" show
and presented by Classic Sports & Entertainment & Sports, Inc (CES).
June 17, 2005
–Dunkin Donuts Center, Providence, Rhode Island
A return to once- familiar surroundings proved to be the order of the day
for Missy Fiorentino and
Jamie Clampitt. The Rhode Island based boxers upped their win
totals with solid efforts over their opponents during the CES promoted
“Prime Time Fight” card. Fiorentino, the # 4 ranked Jr. Lightweight (WBAN)
scored a unanimous (40-36, 40-36, 40-36) decision over rock-solid
Lisa Lewis of Fresno, California in an
animated four-rounder. Clampitt, the Light welterweight, ranked # 7 by
WBAN, was back inside the ropes after a six-month absence, taking out an
overmatched Leora Jackson late in
the third of six scheduled rounds. Clampitt’s most recent result was a
draw with Eliza Olson. The two faced off last December for the vacant
IWBF Light Welterweight title. Fiorentino
and Lewis got busy from the outset. The Rhode Island Deputy Marshall, whose
day-to-day responsibilities include the transportation of inmates to court,
fired the first salvo with a straight left hand that scored. But Lewis
nearly matched “The Fury” with an aggressive stance of her own, at the start
of the second round. Both fighters went up the middle, rarely wavering from
center ring. With less than ten seconds remaining in the round, Fiorentino
who weighted in at 126 lbs. stung Lewis with an overhand left.
Clampitt’s “thing” and
Jackson’s fate collided with a thud at 1:44 of the third round when the
former Canadian amateur unleashed a flurry of punches that led to Jackson
falling back onto the ropes and staggering, eventually landing near her
corner. “The left hook was landing then she started moving the other way,
then the right hand was working, so I was just trying to mix it up and I
knew I had her hurt, and I just wanted to take her out.” The card was
dedicated to veteran Providence Police detective James Allen, who was killed
in the line of duty in April.
Full fight Report by Ken Castro
December 10, 2004 - Masantucket, Connecticut
Report by Ken Castro: For nearly a year, four-time junior welterweight
world title challenger Eliza Olson lobbied for a rematch with former belt
holder Jamie Clampitt. Rough edges remained from their last matchup, a
Clampitt razor-thin victory back in October of 2003. It came as no surprise
then that Olson (San Francisco, CA) jumped at the chance to return east, to
Foxwoods Casino and take another shot at Clampitt, this time for the vacant
IWBF World Junior welterweight crown.
Friday's bout was hastened by the somewhat quick departure of scheduled
Clampitt opponent, Jane Couch, who fell victim to a case of impetigo. In
stepped Olson. And true to form, the smoldering aversion that the two
fighters have toward each other came to the forefront in their scheduled ten
round faceoff.
Unfortunately, when the dust settled, the judge's scorecards left both
corners, and a particularly large, vocal, group of ticket holders, wanting
more. "It makes my heart hurt," offered Olson (8-5-2) after the 96-94,
94-96, 95-95 draw. "I wanted the belt for Christmas. Clampitt (15-3, 5
KO's), who entered the post-fight meeting with reporters, clutching a bag of
ice to her broken right hand, longed for the belt as well. "It was a tough
fight, we have different styles and that made for an awkward fight," said
Clampitt after the disappointing outcome. "I felt like I won the fight."
Full Story
Oct. 1, 2004 - Bayside Expo Center, South
Boston, MA -Report by Ken Castro
Coming off an emotional loss on two fronts less than three months ago,
Jamie "The Hurricane " Clampitt climbed into the ring to battle
a determined Brenda "Tiger Lady" Bell
Drexel last night in a matchup of
Welterweights at the Bayside Expo Center.
Clampitt, the former IWBF and NABAW Light Welterweight Champion, faced Bell
Drexel (#8 WIBF) in her first bout since losing to Jane Couch, in a raucous
affair back in June. Clampitt moved to 14-3 (3KO) by taking a unanimous six
round decision (59-55,59-55, 60-55) over Bell Drexel who dropped to 5-23-2
with the defeat.
Clampitt weighed in at 142, Drexel hit the scales at 151.
Getting back in the ring was a priority for Clampitt who carried a heavy
heart in the Couch fight after losing her longtime mentor, friend and
trainer, Tiny Ricci, less than a day before the skirmish.
"He (Ricci) was on my mind the whole time, " said Clampitt following the
victory. "I have to adjust to life without him but I could definitely feel
his presence in my corner throughout the fight. I felt that he was with me
here tonight."
Bell Drexel proved to be a solid draw for Clampitt. After a mostly defensive
posture by the two fighters, Drexel, of San Marcos, TX backed Clampitt up
early in the second round, forcing her into the corner. Drexel went to the
body but Clampitt worked her way out and utilized her jab for the remainder
of the round.
"Everything I worked on in the gym I was able to take into the fight," said
Clampitt who was visibly more aggressive in the fourth round. In that round,
Clampitt fired a pair of overhand rights that scored while Bell Drexel
briefly bounced off the ropes.
Clampitt stayed with the jab in the fifth, but Drexel who was eager to show
that her record was not a true indicator of the ability that she brought
north, kept coming at Clampitt. Late in the round, Clampitt tagged her
opponent with a crisp overhand right.
"I felt pretty good, I was trying to be patient," said Clampitt. "A lot of
times I found myself rushing in and trying to do too much too soon. I was
hoping to wear her down in the first three rounds by working to the body.
She had a lot of weight on me but I didn't feel that much snap on her
punches."
In the final round both combatants found the center of the ring to their
liking. Ahead on points Clampitt displayed a modicum of offense, preferring
to fend off a late flurry by Bell Drexel.
"She did what she had to do in adapting to a much bigger opponent," said
Clampitt's trainer Chuck Sullivan after the bout. "What she had to do was
box and she did that beautifully."
The pair faced off three years ago when Clampitt was fighting out of Canada.
At that time both were at 136 lb.
After the win Clampitt when offered up the though of having a rematch with
Couch, was all for the notion, "We definitely want to get back and get that
(rematch) done," she offered. "I know that her camp is all for it. She's
going to see a different fighter next time. I won't have to deal with the
loss that I felt last time; I'll be ready."
June 12, 2004 - Foxwoods Resort
Casino, Mashantucket
Jane "The Fleetwood Assassin" Couch, 140, won two
world belts (The NABAW & IWBF) over Jaime Clampitt,
139, in a 10-round unanimous decision. Final scoring was
Scoring: 96-94, 96-94, 96-95.
March 27, 2004 -Foxwoods Resort Casino
Mashantucket, Connecticut
Jaime Clampitt, 137, 13-2-0 (5KO), stopped Lanie Ellis,
136, 9-2-0, in the fourth round by a TKO. The fight was scheduled for
10-rounds, for the IWBF - NABA World belts.
October 31, 2003 - R.I.
Convention Center,
Providence,
Rhode Island
Jaime Clampitt won a 10-round unanimous decision over Eliza Olson,
of California, and won the vacant IWBF World Junior Welterweight belt.
Judges scores 99-94, 99-92 and 96-95. Olson took the fight on a couple of
day's notice. In a second bout, Missy Fiorentino, TKO2 1:15 over
Talia Smith of Cleveland, Ohio.
July 18, 2003 -
Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis, Massachusetts
Jaime Clampitt TKO3 Crystal Bolles in a scheduled
six-round bout.
March 7, 2003 - Columbus Center,
Boston
Jamie Clampitt, 138, captured the vacant
Women’s EBA Super Lightweight title Friday night with a fourth round
knockout of Ragan Pudwill, 135, at the Christopher Columbus Center, in Boston’s
historic North End. Clampitt (9-2 3 KO’s), the former Calgary native, now
residing in Rhode Island, carved out a historic niche of her own in
garnering her first professional title over Pudwill (3-8-0) just 1:19 into
the round. The fight had been scheduled for eight rounds. Clampitt relied on
a flurry of hard body shots in the contest. The accumulation of which over
whelmed Pudwill, who fought for the WIBF Light Welterweight Title against
Agnieszka Rylik, in Budapest, Hungary back in May of 2002. Clampitt’s
belt-winning effort was realized when she capped a flurry midway through the
fourth round with a hard left to Pudwill’s mid section, dropping the Mandan
, ND native to one knee. "I felt that I had a lot more confidence coming
into this fight because I’ve never trained harder leading up to a fight,"
Clampitt said, moments after posing with her new fashion statement, namely
the WEBA belt. Clampitt credited her trainers Tiny Ricci, Chuck Sullivan and
JJ Jeanotte with a recent switch in tactics, one which puts greater emphasis
on working the her opponents gut. "I let myself do a lot of new things in
the ring tonight and it paid off. It all worked tonight," said the new
champ. Report by Ken Castro
January 11, 2003 -
Dunkin Donuts Center, Providence, Rhode Island
Jaime Clampitt, won a six-round majority decision over 27-year old Cynthia
Jones. Clampitt moves her record to 9-2-0 (2KO), and Jones
remains winless at 0-3-0.
Fight Report
October 25, 2002 - Foxwoods Casino, in
Connecticut
In what was anticipated to be televised on ESPN2, the women's match did
not make the air. Canadian boxer Jaime Clampitt, 142, fought
Utah's Summer Deleon, 143, in a six-round welterweight
battle. Clampitt pulled out a close majority decision scoring 58-56,
58-56 (Clampitt), and 57-57.
August 3, 2002
GRAY KO'D BY
PRE-MEDICAL EXAM
By Ken Castro (Sports Writer for
Southern RI Newspapers)
August 3, 2002
MASHANTUCKET, CT- Sharice Gray delivered
the most devastating of blows Friday night. But this KO occurred not in
the confines of the ropes but rather in the medical arena. Gray who
was scheduled to take on Narragansett's Jamie "Hurricane"
Clampitt in a ESPN2 nationally televised fight card from Foxwoods Casino
flunked her pre-fight medical serologic (blood) test and as a result was
booted from the bout with the highly ranked Clampitt.
Connecticut boxing officials informed Clampitt of the situation on the
morning of the weigh-in. Officials would not comment on the results, only
to say that they warranted expulsion as stipulated by commission
regulations. Clampitt who was coming off a strong performance
last June in Boston is within range for a title shot in the near
future. The Calgary, Alberta native (7-2, 2 KO) has received considerable
attention from the boxing
community since moving south earlier this summer. Gray, 20 of Bradenton,
FL has posted a 2-3 record with one KO. She last fought on February 28 in
Tallahassee, FL, gaining a four round majority decision. Gray was a
late addition to the program, when another top ranked fighter, Chilean
native Patricia Demick, (7-4-1) couldn't arrive at a contract
settlement to take on Clampitt. "I'm pretty disappointed, but
you know sometimes these things happen in boxing so you always have to
expect the worse," said Clampitt as she took in the action of the
Sugar Ray Leonard/C.E.S. production on Friday. Clampitt said that
the delay will not necessarily become a negative for a title push.
"The delay is not to bad. We're trying to have a busy season anyway,
so I'll just take a couple of days off and go right back into the gym and
get ready for the next fight." said Clampitt.
June 28, 2002, Boston, Mass
In an action-packed six round bout, Jaime "The Hurricane"
Clampitt cruised to a lopsided unanimous decision win over game Connie
Bechtel at the historic Castle at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston. Two
judges scored the bout 60-54 and the third judge had it
59-55. "Connie is a tough girl," said the now 7-2, 2 KO's
Clampitt. "She took alot of hard punches and kept coming forward.
This was a good hard fight for me. I had alot of fun and was able to work
on a lot of things in there." Clampitt averaged almost 100
punches thrown per round. No one was ever in trouble, however a nasty head
butt early on left both boxers with marks. "I have never
been butted before," said Jaime. "Afterwards when I spoke with
Connie, she said the same thing and we both had marks from it. It hurt and
dazed me a bit but I could tell it dazed her too."
"The headbutt definitely hurt," said Bechtel, who fell to 2-8-3,
2 KO's. "I was stunned so even if Jaime had been hurt there really
was nothing I could do." Neither fighter seemed affected
by the butt after the initial pain and both fought a great fight. In fact,
the bout was voted "Fight of the Night" and Clampitt received
"Fighter of the Night" honors. "She did a good
job," said new co-trainer Chuck Sullivan. "There are still some
things we need to work on and some things we need to polish, but she did
alot of the things we have been working on in the gym. She listens well. I
thought she fought a near perfect fight though and really controlled the
whole fight from bell to bell." "Jaime was certainly the
main highlight of the show," said her promoter Jimmy Burchfield.
"It was a pleasure watching her fight and watch for Jaime because she
will be a world champion in the very near future." Clampitt, who
now resides in the surfing town of Narragansett, Rhode Island, is next
scheduled to fight on August 2nd at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
April 12, 2002 -Miami, Oklahoma
Jaime Clampitt won a four-round unanimous decision over Kanicia
Eley. Clampitt has improved her record to 7-2-0, and Eley
is now 2-2.
December 7, 2001 - Foxwoods Casino -
Ledyard, Connecticut
Liz Mueller won a 10-round IWBF 135-lb World title when she defeated
Jamie Clampitt in a unanimous decision. The was a rematch for
the two. The final scoring by the judges was 97-93, 98-92, and
98-92. Mueller improved her record to 8-2-0 (2KO),
Clampitt dropped to 6-2-0.
Fight
Report
August 10, 2001 -
Foxwoods Casino,
Mashantucket, CT -
Jamie "Hurricane" Clampitt of Calgary,
won a four-round unanimous decision over Erica Sugar of Garritt Park,
Md. According to news sources, "Clamplitt rocked Sugar with a big right in the second round and kept her
retreating from then until the final bell, improving her record to 6-1. Sugar dropped to 1-2-1 with the loss.
June 2, 2001 - t Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet,
Cranston, Rhode Island
Jaime Clampitt of Calgary, Canada, KO1 Anita Parker. Ted
Panagiotis wrote "Much anticipation
surrounded the four-round female bout between Jaime "The
Hurricane" Clampitt and Anita Parker of Philadelphia. Clampitt did not
waste any time in her CES debut and scored a first-round knockout that
raised her record to 5-1 with two KOs. Clampitt, of Calgary, is relocating
to Providence to continue her pro career."
May 19,
2001 - Calgary, Canada
Jamie Clampitt, of Toronto, Canada, won a four-round unanimous
decision over Brenda Bell Drexel of Texas.
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