In an action packed night of fights on ShoBox: The New Generation, junior middleweight Ishe “Sugar Shay” Smith of Las Vegas overwhelmed Poland’s Pawel “Raging Bull” Wolak en route to a 10 round unanimous decision victory from the Aviator Arena in Brooklyn, New York.

Smith won by scores of 97-93 and 96-94 twice, improving his own record to 20-3 (9), while handing Wolak a first loss to drop the Rockaway, NJ based fighter drops to 21-1(14).

Having lost two of his last three fights, Smith knew needed an impressive showing in order to remain a relevant prospect in the 154-pound division. “I knew I needed a win tonight if I wanted to stay competitive in this division,” Smith said. “I had a great chance tonight to prove myself and I took advantage of it.”

With the future of his career in question, Smith came out strong and landed a flurry of punches early. He poured it on as the fight progressed and, despite slipping a few times on a slick canvas, clearly overpowered his opponent.

Wolak kept the pace early and had the excitable crowd behind him, but he was never able to land the power punches needed to slow Smith’s determined attack.

In the ShoBox co-feature, young Bronx based prospect Jorge Teron looked impressive in defeating the hard-hitting Michael Lozada of Mexico by TKO at 1:26 of the sixth round.

Teron recorded his seventh knockout victory in his last 11 fights and his 15th KO overall, improving his record to 22-0-1. The hard-hitting prospect floored Lozada twice in the sixth round, with the second punishing knockdown forcing Lozada’s corner to surrender before referee Pete Santiago could finish the count.

“Teron wasn’t throwing the outrageous number of punches that we expected,” said ShoBox analyst Steve Farhood. “But once he was able to land a good one, once he hit that sweet spot, the fight was over.”

Teron has trained with Mark Breland, a 1984 Olympic Gold Medalilst and former WBA Welterweight world champion, since turning pro at the age of 19 in 2005.

The telecast aired live on Showtime and was presented by Gotham Boxing in association with Final Forum Boxing.

Nick Charles called the action from ringside with Farhood serving as expert analyst. The executive producer of ShoBox is Gordon Hall with Richard Gaughan producing and Rick Phillips directing.

For information on Showtime Sports Programming, including exclusive behind-the-scenes video and photo galleries, complete telecast information and more, please go the new Showtime Sports website at http://www.sho.com/sports.

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