Ricardo Williams plays with his son Ricardo III after the fight. (Brandi Stafford photos) | ZOOM |

        Ricardo Williams Jr. carved up Cuban-born Damian Guerra before a large Cintas Center crowd and national TV audience Friday night — but the rules cost him a victory and gave him a draw.

        Williams Jr. dominated the fight, nailing Guerra repeatedly with combinations and bloodying his face and dodging almost everything Guerra threw, but because the Olympic silver medalist had unintentionally head-butted Guerra late in the third round, the rules of the Ohio Athletic Commission couldn't give him the win.

        The bout would have had to make it through the third round for Williams Jr. to have received the decision. At first, after the ringside doctor had stopped the bout because of the cut above Guerra's eye, it was announced the results on the judges' card would determine the outcome.

Williams mixes it up with Damian Guerra. | ZOOM |

        A unanimous decision was then proclaimed for Williams Jr. to the roar of the crowd, and the Taft High grad climbed to the second rope in one of the corners and raised his hands above the crowd and waved his boxing gloves toward himself.

        But moments later, after Williams had left the ring, it was all boos when the decision of a “technical draw” was announced. It was a scheduled six-round bout. Williams is still 2-0-1; a “technical draw” basically makes it a no-contest.

        “This is boxing,” he said. “You always have to expect the unexpected. I don't see how you can call that a draw. I was winning the fight. I definitely did what I needed to do in there.”

        Williams liked the way he boxed Guerra, 10-1, saying he “fought a beautiful fight...I think the crowd was satisfied.”

        Williams' Olympic teammate, Dante Craig, suffered a third-round TKO at hands of unheralded 152-pounder Sherwin Davis of Indianapolis.

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