(FEB 15) Last night at the Orleans Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Layla McCarter, 132,  of Las Vegas, won by an eighth round TKO" over Melissa “Hurracan” Hernandez, 133.5. The fight was scheduled for three-minute (per round), 12 rounds, with McCarter defending her GBU lightweight title.  
Photographer Mary Ann Owen of BILV, said of the fight, “Hernandez fought very well against the experienced McCarter. McCarter.  Hernandez displayed courage and heart, McCarter’s experienced prevailed.” 

After the fight, McCarter said, “Hernandez has a fighter’s heart. I respect her for stepping up, she will learn from this and will use the experience for improvement. It took a lot of guts to fight someone of my experience. We all pay our dues this way.  Her time will come and she will be a champion.”

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