On Saturday, Nov. 22, Teflon Promotions hosted Re:Play Volume 1 from the Alan Horwitz Sixth Man Center in Philadelphia. The seven-bout matchcard delivered on Teflon Promotions owner Dom Walton's vision to revitalize his up-and-coming company and have the fans engaged from beginning to end.
Following the conclusion of the event, Walton revisited his comments to Philly Sports Network from the night before.
"I think we created a storm tonight," Walton said. "I feel like I haven't seen another promoter this year throw a show like this. I plan on 2026, putting on more shows like this, building in the city of Philadelphia, building a better relationship with the fighters, and just putting on for the city."
He also shared that he believes the Alan Horwitz Sixth Man Center will be the main venue when Teflon Promotions returns to Philly.
Here is a recap of the entire main card:
The action began with Damion Williams targeting Burnside’s body early. Giving up five inches in height, his straight shots were much more inline with Burnside’s diaphragm than they were with his head. Burnside wasted no time using his size advantage to close the distance on Williams and get into close-quarter combat. Williams did have the speed advantage, allowing him to put together some combinations that put Burnside on the defensive.
Damion Williams was finding some offensive success in the clinch, using his shorter reach to land shots in the confined space. Once Burnside stepped back, his reach advantage dictated the distance at which the bout was fought.
In the third round, Burnside’s corner could be heard shouting to him that he was thinking too much in the ring. That seemed to flip the switch, as Burnside started attacking with ferocity, even knocking out William’s mouthpiece, prompting a timeout.
In the fourth and final round, Burnside began to pour it on. He registered a knockdown in the final frame and dispatched of Williams’ mouthpiece for the second time. A very controlling back half of the fight led to Burnside getting his hand raised via unanimous decision from the judges.
Erick Gainous entered the ring with poise and confidence. Intensity in his eyes, a thousand-yard stare, emitting an aura. And while the fight may have started a bit slow as both fighters looked to feel each other out, Gainous made sure it would not go on longer than necessary.
Gainous put Michael Lomax down in the first round to a referee count of seven, and he was never able to truly recover from that shot. Lomax came out swinging in round two to try and make up for the loss he took in the first, but Gainous put him down again, this time to a count of eight.
The third time would prove to be the charm. Once the ref restarted the action, Gainous landed a brutal combination that knocked Lomax out cold.
Lomax spent several minutes down on the mat and needed a lot of assistance to eventually get back up after several minutes. Humanistically, have to hope he is doing alright.
Rodreko Jennings came out like a bat-out-of-hell in this one. As soon as the bell rang, he was charging at Tyree Sawyer with reckless abandon, doing his best to make the debutant guess whether he should even be in this position. That was not a wise strategy…
Sawyer landed a clean hook early, followed by really sound defense, bobbing and weaving away from Jennings’ attacks. After returning from their corners for the second round, Jennings lacked the juice he had come out with in round one. This was actually further emphasized by Sawyer's coaches, who were yelling to him that Jennings was bound to slow down.
For someone making their professional debut, Tyree Sawyer lacked no confidence. In fact, he was the brashest fighter on the card. Sticking his tongue out, laughing, pointing and jawing with Jennings’ corner; things fighters should only do if they are beyond sure they are going to get their hand raised.
Sawyer’s coaches fed into it, too. Instead of guiding Sawyer through the fight, they were just yelling insults to diminish Jennings. He definitely heard it, and tried to take it out on Sawyer in round three by coming in with an unloading fury of punches.
In the final round, Jennings came out like he did in the first and tried to lay it on Sawyer. At one point, he got Sawyer on the ropes and started teeing off and eventually landed a vicious left hook that led Sawyer to clinch up to buy himself a breather as the fight came to a close.
In what was probably the most questionable decision of the evening, Tyree Sawyer won via unanimous decision, even scoring a perfect 40-36 score on one of the cards. Jennings landed the more prominent strikes seemingly with more frequency, but the refs clearly saw something different.
Aaron Anderson faces off against Travis Floyd at Teflon Promotions' Re:Play Volume 1 at the Alan Horwitz "Sixth Man" center.
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Aaron Anderson came into this fight with an undefeated record, three more knockouts, and 16 fewer losses than his opponent, Travis Floyd. This was ripe for an Anderson knockout to propel himself forward, but Floyd’s resilience was the story in this one.
Anderson was the aggressor out of the gate, landing a few early shots and walking Floyd backwards with his approach. His defense was sharp as well, consistently dodging Floyd’s retaliatory punches. Come round two, the frenzy started. Anderson started attacking the body which prompted the fighters to bring it close and both started to heavily exchange on the other.
Anderson stunned Floyd with a clean shot that forced him to back up, and from then on, he was able to put Floyd in the corner whenever he wanted and unleash. He ended round two with another nice flurry, but Floyd still looked pretty fresh from his corner, which had to be a surprise to Anderson and his team.
Anderson started the third with a thunderous strike, and he began to smell blood. Anderson rushed Floyd, not letting up on the attack, doing everything he could to end this fight on his own terms. His corner was urging him to finish Floyd off. When Anderson got Floyd on the ropes again, it was beautifully telegraphed and reversed to slow down the onslaught.
In the fourth round, Floyd did all he could to put together some combos of his own, but Anderson was not willing to let that happen. Anderson stifled Floyd late in the round and dished out a mean uppercut followed by a stiff jab while Floyd was on jelly-legs. Anderson did not want to have to see the scorecards, and he certainly cannot be happy to know he tied on one of them, but the other two went in his favor for the majority decision win.
This was Anderson’s first fight in five years, but we should not have to wait that long to see him again. He said he wants to stay active and fight at least four times in 2026.
Kadeen Hunter faces off against William Smith at Teflon Promotions' Re:Play Volume 1 at the Alan Horwitz "Sixth Man" center.
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Similar to the previous fight, Kadeen Hunter entered this bout with an undefeated record, a hefty knockout rate, and 18 fewer losses than his opponent, William Smith. Also similar to the previous fight, Smith showed an incredible amount of will to stay in this one to the end in what was a six-round affair.
Smith started the fight very hesitantly, obviously aware of the talent advantage Hunter possessed. Hunter stayed poised and took his shots where he could get them. His jab was working all night long and kept Smith at a fair distance that played right into Hunter’s game plan.
Hunter really picked up the intensity starting in the second round. He continued to leverage his jab and fired body shots off Smith’s misses. Hunter’s father, who is his corner coach, implored him to keep his guard close and not allow Smith to make headway. Hunter gave Smith no room to work with offensively, and from there, he was able to really pour it on.
There was a point where it appeared Smith was not going to make it through the second, but he was able to put together a little package of his own late in the round to stem the tide and earn himself more time in the fight.
Hunter would continue to dominate the next few rounds. He was able to bully Smith to any position he wanted to get him to, constantly working the ropes and corners so Smith could not dodge as effectively. The scrapes and bruises from the body shots lit up Smith’s backside like a Christmas tree.
In the final two rounds, Smith was clearly tiring while Hunter maintained his relentless offensive pace. His stamina is going to be one of his key traits throughout his boxing career. Being able to outwork opponents physically and tactically is just as important as harboring elite punching power. And speaking of power, Hunter finally sent Smith to the floor in the fifth round. To Smith's credit, he got right back up but walked into a vicious array of body shots that ended the round.
The sixth and final round saw Hunter do everything he could to finish off Smith but it was not meant to be, which definitely frustrated him. But still, to win every round on every scorecard is nothing to scoff at. Oh yeah, and he’s only 19 years old!
“I had expected him to throw more than what he did but he did not throw much and he did not come at me," Hunter said after the bout. "I was much more so surprised that he didn’t initiate anything. I initiated everything off my jab.”
That he did. Kadeen Hunter has a chance to be a homegrown, household name in due time.
Rasheen Brown faces off against Gary Hampton at Teflon Promotions' Re:Play Volume 1 at the Alan Horwitz "Sixth Man" center.
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Rasheen Brown walked to the ring for his eight-round matchup versus Gary Hampton after he failed to show up to the final face-off the night before. He left the arena on Saturday night, making sure everyone knew who he was.
Brown would waste no time getting busy. He landed two body shots very early that visibly bothered Hampton, not a great sign mere seconds into a 32-minute fight. Brown would continue to work the body throughout the first and started throwing in some feints that Hampton could not pick up on. Brown began using the feints as early decoys to set up devastating combination strikes, and there was simply no answer for them.
Hampton found his initial flurry to end the first and start the second. That is when Brown’s corner chimed in for patience and to let the fight come to him. Brown would fire hook shots when Hampton would get to within his range, and it felt like he did not miss any of them. Hampton had to resort to a clinch to recuperate and close off that distance from Brown’s punches.
Brown took a more defensive-minded approach in the third round and Hampton took his chance to land a solid combo on Brown while pressed against the ropes. Brown would soon find his spot to land some powerful punches that really energized his hometown crowd. There was almost a scary moment at the end of the third where Brown got turned around and almost took a clean uppercut to the back of his head, which is, of course, the weakest part of the skull. Thankfully, Hampton missed, or that could have turned out pretty ugly.
Hampton began to show signs of wear and tear heading into the fourth. His offense had completely left him, and he had to resort to clinching just to survive. Hampton bought his way into the fifth round by reversing rope position on Brown and finally getting in a combo of his own as time expired in the fourth.
Hampton, looking to change his fortunes, came out swinging in the fifth. He did not control his punches particularly well, though, constantly overswinging and letting Brown counter-attack with hooks and uppercuts every single time. When Brown regained full control of the round, he relied on his trustworthy jab to get through Hampton’s guard.
Hampton would inadvertently buy himself some more time when he hit Brown with a low blow that sent the fighters to the corners for a timeout. Brown gave the thumbs-up pretty quickly so he could continue to strike while the iron was hot. He then started walking Hampton down as his corner yelled at him not to let Hampton play passively. Round six ended with Brown putting Hampton on the mat, though Hampton pleaded with the referee that he slipped and that it should not be recorded as a knockdown.
Brown would get his manhood revenge at the start of the seventh, registering a shot below the belt of his own to Hampton. The fighters again retreated to the corners for a timeout, and Hampton took significantly more time to recover than Brown did, probably due to the fatigue and once again looked for an extended breather.
When the action resumed, Brown fired more stiff shots that Hampton has to be given credit for continuing to eat. Brown would record another knockdown, this time with a body shot to the head, in the final round.
Brown knew the fight was as good as over if he did not get knocked out himself. He was not nearly as aggressive in the eighth, leaning back on his defense and continuing to make great use of his counter punches. Brown fought a much cleaner and sounder fight and had his hand raised for it via unanimous decision.
“He was real awkward. I knew my speed and my timing was going to catch up to him, and he was just pretty durable, Hampton said after the match. "I feel like I could’ve gotten him out of there but he was just tough and awkward so it was little more difficult for me, but we got the job done.”
Vaughn Adams faces off against Mike Liberto at Teflon Promotions' Re:Play Volume 1 at the Alan Horwitz "Sixth Man" center.
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Vaughn “Vhustle” Adams made his professional debut after a successful start in celebrity boxing. He had amassed an impressive social media following with over 33,000 followers on Instagram due to his success in the celebrity scene.
Used to wearing 20-ounce gloves, Adams relished the opportunity to cut that size in half and really let the pepper behind his punches be felt. Mike Liberto took the ring with a seven-inch height disadvantage and really no redeeming quality in comparison to Adams.
It was essentially over from the get-go. Liberto knew he had to come out hot if he wanted to get anything in this fight, and he honestly played right into Adams’ hands. It took Adams all of 33 seconds to put Liberto on the floor, and the referee called off the fight for an immediate TKO victory.
“World champion!" Adams said of his career aspirations. "You know, I’m trying to dominate. We’re going to move correctly. I got a solid team, solid coaches. We’re going to do the best we can to be world champion.”
