Tiara Brown Wins by a Fourth Round
TKO over Dahianna Santana
by Sue TL Fox
Photo Credits: Facebook
December 10, 2108
(DEC 10) On Saturday night
at the A.C. Jordan Arena on the campus of Bowie State
University, in Bowie, Maryland, there was an action-packed
junior lightweight female bout
featuring Tiara Brown, of Bladensburg, Maryland, facing
road-warrior veteran and former IBF Featherweight world
champion, Dahiana Santana, of the Dominican Republic.
Dibella Entertainment wrote in
their press release, "fighting for the second straight time at
Bowie State University, Brown will be facing the toughest
opponent of her career. A police officer with the Metropolitan
Police Department in Washington, D.C., she is coming off a
fourth-round stoppage of Jasmine Clarkson on September 22, 2018.
Santana has fought a wealth of top talent in women’s boxing
including Amanda Serrano, Eva Wahlstrom and Anahi Sanchez."
Santana entered the ring this
night with a vast amount of professional boxing experience----along with an extensive boxing record of 36-10-0 (15KO),
going back to 2002 when Santana made her pro debut.
In the first round the two appeared to be filling each other
out, but from the second round until the end of the fourth
round, it was filled with a continued action with Brown
appearing to be the sharper of the two. Santana went for
many body shots throughout the fight, with the fourth round not
faring well for her as she appeared to have not been punching as
sharply, and she held on to Brown, where the ref gave her a
standing eight-count, taking a point away from her. When
the bell rang after the fourth round, Santana did not return for
the fifth round. They announced the fight as a TKO in the fourth
round. The bout was scheduled for eight rounds. WBAN has added the video:
MORE PHOTOS FROM WEIGH-IN: AT
THE SCALES TIARA BROWN WEIGHED IN AT 129.4, AND SANTANA, 132
LBS.
Brown said after the weigh-in,
"Last night's weigh-ins were awesome! Tensions were risen, words
were said, a little pushing and shoving..with that
being said it's going down tonight at Bowie State University
6pm."
Brown fulfilled her prophecy of this night when she stopped
Santana in the fourth round! Brown improved her record to
7-0-0 (5KO), and Santana fell to 36-11-0 (15KO).