Welliver has new belt to try on for size

Chauncy Welliver has a belt.

What he needs is a pair of suspenders.

The portly Spokane heavyweight, who constantly tugs up his sagging trunks during fights, won the vacant Washington State heavyweight championship belt Wednesday night, knocking out Wyoming’s Corey Williams in the first of two main events at Northern Quest Casino in Airway Heights

The 24-year-old Welliver (32-2-4) earned his 12th career knockout when the fight was stopped with just 4 seconds left in the sixth and final round.

“I think these trunks are too small for me anymore,” Welliver joked about his white faux-fur trunks.

Williams, who broke his right hand punching Welliver’s head, was penalized a point for low blows, but committed many more low punches.

“And they hurt, too,” Welliver said. “My corner kept telling me to get him back and I did. I went out with a bang.”

In the card’s main event, Alonzo Butler, the 16th-ranked heavyweight in the North American Boxing Federation, improved his standing by scoring a first-round knockout over Ralph West at the 2:19 mark.

Butler (26-0-1) won his 19th bout by knockout in his third fight at Northern Quest.

The most exciting fight came from a pair of undefeated super welterweights.

Portland’s Abel Perry (7-0) won by unanimous decision over Skyler Thompson (11-1), from Rockford, Ill. The two lightning-fast boxers flashed around the ring for six rounds, with Perry winning every round on two of the three ringside judges’ scorecards.

On other bouts, undefeated British Columbia heavyweight Shane Andreesen (5-0) scored a first-round knockout of Jose Beltran, dropping the Colorado heavyweight 1:02 into the bout.

Portland’s Sam Haynes defeated Matt Halvorsen of Billings, Mont., in a six-round super middleweight bout. One judge scored the fight a draw. The other two awarded the fight to Haynes.

Klamath Falls heavyweight Roland Graham decked Californian Danny McGarry in the opening seconds of their scheduled six-rounder and again midway through the second round en route to a second-round TKO.

The first fight of the night ended in disqualification.

Battle Ground, Wash., welterweight Donnie Fosmire was disqualified 2:32 into the second round for committing a foul with the intent to cause harm.

Fosmire, fighting Osvaldo Rojas for the second consecutive fight (losing a four-round unanimous decision March 31), tripped in the middle of the ring and fell into the ropes late in the second round. Rojas punched Fosmire as he was coming out from between the ring ropes. Referee Darryl Van Note, who said after the fight that he would have admonished Rojas for his punch, stepped in and separated the fighters. Fosmire sucker punched Rojas from behind and was immediately disqualified.