Friday night in Atlantic City, a welterweight fight scheduled for ten rounds t pitted Joshua Clottey, 149 lbs, from the Bronx, NY by way of Ghana and Steven Martinez, 177 ? lbs, Houston, Texas.

The first round was a feeling out process with Clottey landing a solid left hook at the end of that stanza. Clottey landed a leaping left hook at the beginning of round two. Martinez was cut over his right eye from an apparent head butt. The ring Doctor deemed in between rounds two and three that Martinez could not continue due the cut and the bout was ruled no contest.

Clottey remains 26-1, 18 KO?s and Martinez is 46-3-1, 28 KO?s.