George Arias Edges Alante Green With Split Decision Win
Jun 10, 2022 • 10:37 PM ET
‘Gentleman’ George Arias hung on to his undefeated record with a tight split decision win over Alante Green in a heavyweight eight-rounder on Lou DiBella’s Shobox show at the Turning Stone Casino.
The first round was largely exploratory with Arias moving, looking for openings but Green worked to close the distance in the second. Both landed solid left hooks in the third and Green fired off a double jab right hand before switching lefty for a period in the fourth.
It was a pedestrian affair with referee Charlie Fitch having to break them several times but they started the fifth as though their lives depended on the outcome, with both firing combinations in to the body and head.
Arias, from the Dominican Republic but based in the Bronx, New York, then took a straight right but landed a right uppercut in an instant riposte and there were oohs and aahs from the crowd.
Arias landed another left hook with his back to the ropes and probably won the most exciting round of the fight to that point.
The contest continued to heat up in the sixth in what was becoming a bout of attrition but there were signs both might be running out of steam in the next and the eighth and final round was largely inconclusive as neither was able to establish real control.
The judges were divided. Tom Schrek and Eric Marlinski both scored for Arias 78-74 and 77-75 respectively while Don Trella had it 77-75 for Green. There wasn’t much in it.
Arias is now 18-0 (7), while Green, from Cleveland, Ohio, is 10-1-1 (7).
Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men’s Health, and is a board member for the Ringside Charitable Trust and the Ring of Brotherhood. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular “Boxing Life Stories” podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, a BWAA award winner, and is the author of five boxing books, including “Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing” (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), “Warrior: A Champion’s Search for His Identity” (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and “The Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing’s Wastelands.” You can reach him @trisdixon on X and Instagram.
