{"id":79209,"date":"2019-04-02T16:09:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=79209"},"modified":"2019-04-02T16:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:16:31","slug":"mark-dawson-jr-sonny-conto-get-big-win-big-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=79209","title":{"rendered":"Mark Dawson, JR &#038; Sonny Conto Get Big Win Big In Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=79209\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=79209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-79210 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mail-1-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mail-1-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mail-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mail-1-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mail-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Over the weekend, two highly regarded prospects under the Split-T Management stable, welterweight Mark Dawson Jr. and heavyweight Sonny Conto remained undefeated with victories in their hometown of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday night at SugarHouse Casino, Dawson took a unanimous decision over Jordan Morales in a six-round bout. <\/p>\n<p>Dawson dropped Morales in round two with a left hook, and he never looked back as he kept Morales on end of his jab that Dawson followed up with some nice straight lefts.<\/p>\n<p>Dawson, who was a former Youth National Champion and a quarterfinalist in the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, has a record of 6-0-1.<\/p>\n<p>Conto scored his 2nd straight 1st round knockout when he blasted out Omar Acosta on Saturday night at 2300 Arena.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 23 year-old Conto landed a devastating left hook that nailed Acosta on the chin, that sent Acosta to the deck, and the bout was was stopped 75 seconds into the contest.<\/p>\n<p>With the win Conto, a two-time Pennsylvania Golden Gloves Champion as well as a Silver Medalist in the 2018 National Golden Gloves and a Bronze Medalist in the 2017 National Golden Gloves, will now head to Las Vegas and fight on the Tyson Fury &#8211; Tom Schwarz undercard on June 15th.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WtFjOOuzPSI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] Over the weekend, two highly regarded prospects under the Split-T Management stable, welterweight Mark Dawson Jr. and heavyweight Sonny Conto remained undefeated with victories in their hometown of Philadelphia. On Friday night at SugarHouse Casino, Dawson took a unanimous decision over Jordan Morales in a six-round bout. Dawson dropped Morales in round two with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19860,19859],"class_list":["post-79209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-jr-sonny-conto-get-big-win-big-in-philly","tag-mark-dawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79209"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}