Misc Info: GEORGIA "KEMP" FIGHTER 
Miami Herald - Diaz Rodriguez
Seamy side of women's boxing Link

July 26, 2001 - North Charleston, South Carolina
At the Radisson and Gaillard Auditorium, in front of 1,000 boxing fans, Melissa Salamone fought for the SECOND time with the same opponent, made-for-padding-records Sophia Johnson. Salamone just can’t seem to be able to stay away from easy marks as Johnson, who Salamone had JUST stopped in the fifth round on April 28, 2001.  Johnson owns two wins to her "ailing record" that were with two questionable opponents. WBAN does not know if this time around "Kemp Girl Fighter" Salamone fought four or six rounds, because the only article on this Tomato-Can-Land boxing fiasco had one line of text in the article. Salamone won by a unanimous decision against Johnson this second time around---surprise, surprise…….For a background on Salamone's opponent, Sophia Johnson, an excerpt out of an article that was published in January of 1999, from the Miami Herald described the following:   "Sophia Johnson has replaced Payne as the favored fighter in Kemp's stable. A 147-pound rock of muscle, Johnson, 26, came to Kemp from jail on the recommendation of another former inmate, Sherri Painter, jailed on a theft charge. Johnson (1-0) knocked out Painter last month. Before that bout, Johnson had wandered in and out of trouble. ''I used to sell drugs,'' she says. ''I've been robbed three times and raped three times.'' Sometimes Johnson runs from trouble using phony names. Among the aliases she has given police: Sophia Grant and Anita Brown."