Shakur Stevenson took a transparent unanimous determination victory on the Prudential Middle as he defended his WBC light-weight world title from Artem Harutyunyan.
Combating in his Newark hometown, the American outboxed his challenger to win by scores of 119-109, 118-110 and 116-112 after 12 rounds.
The Armenian-born Germany-based Harutyunyan is a 2016 Olympic medallist however was coming into this struggle after a close to year-long lay-off. In the end he couldn’t threaten Stevenson and was damage a number of instances by physique photographs.
“He’s just trying to make sure he survives,” Stevenson stated afterwards. “He’s a good fighter. He’s tough. He’s strong. I would’ve wanted him to try a little harder, so that way it could be a more fun fight.
“I’ve to chop off the ring a bit extra. He’d go a method after which go the opposite approach, so I acquired to return within the gymnasium and work on reducing off the ring.”
Harutyunyan stated: “Of course it was fun. Boxing is not a game. You have to fight. You get hit and have to hit back. It’s normal.”
In a shock outcome on the undercard Brazilian Olympic gold medallist Robson Conceicao defeated O’Shaquie Foster to win the WBC super-featherweight title.
It was Conceicao’s fourth try at profitable a world title and a cut up determination went his approach. Foster received 116-112 on one card, however the different two judges dominated it 116-112 and 115-113 for Conceicao.
O’Shaquie Foster insisted he deserved the choice in opposition to Robson Conceicao
“This is for my daughter. I promised this to my daughter, and I was able to fulfil that promise. I’m the champion of the world,” Conceicao stated.
Foster bitterly disagreed with the outcome. “I thought it was easy. I thought it was an easy fight. I didn’t get touched except with a headbutt. I don’t know, man,” he stated.
“I’ll be back. But I want the rematch. They stole this from me. They stole this fight from me. I just wanted to show the world I could bang it out, and if I want to, I don’t have to get touched. I guess it wasn’t good enough for the judges.”
Keyshawn Davis overcame the stress and roughhouse ways of Miguel Madueno to safe a unanimous determination win and enhance his report to 11-0.
Davis, an Olympic silver medallist from Norfolk, Virginia, saved calm and used well-timed counter-punches, triumphing 99-91 on all three scorecards.
The 2 tussled after the tip of spherical six and within the seventh Madueno, 31-3 (28), lifted Davis clear off his toes.
Davis discovered his offensive groove within the ninth and tenth rounds and viciously out-landed Madueno.
“He’s a rough type of a guy, a real physical type of guy,” Davis stated. “We were doing a lot of rough tactics in there, just trying to get under each other’s skin.
Keyshawn Davis acquired to grips with Miguel Madueno
“We were both tough in there, and neither of our wills got broke.”
Additionally on the undercard Cleveland prodigy Abdullah Mason knocked out Luis Lebron within the third spherical. Lebron had by no means been stopped earlier than however Mason made straightforward work of the Puerto Rican veteran.
Mason knocked Lebron down twice within the second spherical, first with an overhand left after which with a sequence of proper hooks. The top was close to, and Lebron’s nook threw within the towel at 1-18 of the third to stop additional injury.
Mason stated: “I guess we fed him a little bit of smoke, and he didn’t have the appetite for it.”
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