There were fireworks on tap last night at Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, CA as WBO Welter Champ Paul Williams, 35-1 (26), made short work of Andy Kolle, 17-2 (12), stopping the Minnesota native in the first round of a non-title bout fought at middleweight.

Despite being a natural middleweight, Kolle was ill-prepared to deal with the power of Williams and was floored by a single shot within a very short time after the contest started.

Heavyweight Chris Arreola, 25-0 (22), needed only three rounds to achieve the same result against opponent Israel Carlos Garcia, 19-2 (11). 38 year old Garcia had never faced the level of competition that Arreola presented and was unable to keep the Californian off, resulting in the early stoppage.

There is an old axiom in boxing: “Don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk.”

On Thursday, September 25, WBO Welterweight Champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams, 34-1 (25), will back up his claim of accepting every conceivable challenge between 147 pounds and 168 pounds, when he moves up to the middleweight division to take on tough, hard-hitting middleweight, Andy Kolle, 17-1 (12), in a non-title 10 round bout at the Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, California. The fight will air live on Versus, a national sports network in more than 73 million homes at 9 P.M. ET. More...