"I felt great,” said Clampitt. “I had a lot of fun. (Clark) was very tough and she’s a very good boxer, but I felt relaxed and I was very confident. It was a great way to come back and I’m very happy with the way I fought.”
Clark (4-3-1, 3 KOs), a southpaw from Fayetteville, N.C. who was fighting in her fourth fight in the last five months, had a four-inch height advantage and a superior reach that was on display in the opening round, but she was unable to put them to use at Clampitt’s expense.
“I was a little surprised at her speed, and she definitely had the height and the reach advantage,” noted Clampitt. “When we were facing off each other in the ring in the first round, I couldn’t believe the reach advantage that she had.
“But in the second round, we made a slight adjustment, I was bending over a little bit to my right and just trying to step in more with my speed and get in closer with the body and it was definitely working for me.”
Clampitt began to steal the show in that second round, and in the following round, she put on a superb hitting display that forced Clark to cover up for most of the round as her nose and mouth began to puff up in a hurry.
Clampitt also had a strong round in the fifth and clearly hurt Clark with an early uppercut and some body shots near the end of the round.
“Toward the end of the fight, I was feeling more confident and I was trying things that we tried in camp that we weren’t sure was going to work,” she admitted. “In the sixth (round), I tried a little counterpunching with her, and halfway through the round, I went back to the body on her.”
The last time Clampitt fought was on March 14, 2008 when she retained her IWBF (International Women’s Boxing Federation lightweight) title at Twin River with a 10-round majority-decision triumph over Belinda Laracuente.
Before the fight, Clampitt remarked that she wasn’t “at the world champion level quite yet,” but after taking her first step in that direction, she plans to do her best to get back there in 2010.
“We’re just going to take things fight by fight,” noted Clampitt. “Right now, I’m going to rest a little bit and enjoy my family, and we’ll see what happens next year.” 
Before Clampitt’s fight, the fight fans on hand got to see four New England fighters put away their opponents by stoppages.
Long Island lightweight Joe “The Irish Bomber” Smith had the knockout of the night just 45 seconds into his bout with North Carolina native Brandon McGowen. Smith used a left hook, followed by a vicious right, to put away McGowen and score his second straight first-round KO in as many fights.
Boston light heavyweight Maceo Crowder, who is the half brother of 2008 U.S. Olympian Demetrius Andrade, seized his pro debut with a third-round TKO of North Carolina native Duane King, who was dominated in the first two rounds before being put away for good 1:38 into the third.
Worcester heavyweight Rashad Minor also raised his record to 3-1 (3 KOs) by knocking out Lance Gauch of Hannibal, Mo. with 13 seconds left in the second round.  
Ex-URI football player and Providence super middleweight Vladine Biosse also had an early stoppage, an opening-round TKO of Jeffrey Osbourne of Davenport, Iowa that took 85 seconds to register. Biosse hiked his record to 5-0 (4-0 KOs).  
In the “Special Attraction” fight after Clampitt’s bout, Framingham junior welterweight and 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate Danny O’Connor had an easy time in improving to 10-0 (3 KOs) with a unanimous-decision win over James Hope of Rock Hill, S.C., sweeping the bout by 60-54 scores.