Bruce Carrington overcame the hardest problem of his younger profession on Friday, defeating Sulaiman Segawa by majority determination at The Theater at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis.
One choose had the struggle 95-95, marking the primary scorecard the 27-year-old from Brownsville, Brooklyn didn’t win, whereas the opposite two judges awarded Carrington the win by the scores of 97-93.
The tallies instructed the story of a detailed, aggressive bout the place Carrington (13-0, 8 knockouts) wished the victory extra within the ultimate two rounds. Segawa (17-5-1, 6 KOs) of Silver Spring, Md. by the use of Kampala, Uganda received off to a robust begin within the first two rounds, sneaking his southpaw left hand between the Carrington guard and touchdown successfully to the physique. Carrington took that cue within the third and fourth spherical, focusing on Segawa’s physique with proper hand counters.
Segawa, 33, picked up the tempo within the fifth spherical, mixing in his proper hook to maintain Carrington turning and staying off the road for Carrington’s counterpunches.
The 2 collided heads within the seventh spherical, resulting in a headbutt that induced a hematoma excessive on Carrington’s head. The bump, although seen, didn’t impair Carrington’s imaginative and prescient. With the struggle shut after eight rounds, Carrington turned up the aggression within the ultimate two rounds, outworking his opponent and securing the victory.
After having his hand raised, Carrington gave his opponent the respect he earned.
“You’re a superb fighter bro, undoubtedly the most effective competitor I’ve had up to now,” mentioned Carrington, who entered the struggle rated no. 1 by the WBA, no. 2 by the WBC and WBO, and no. 8 by the IBF at 126 kilos.
“That is simply gonna get me to the subsequent stage. I simply discovered to cope with the off-tempo. I received a few issues I gotta work on again within the fitness center. We gotta get again on our beat and have extra dominant performances. However so long as we received the ‘W’ on the finish of the day, we’re nonetheless good.”
CompuBox stats confirmed Segawa outlanding and outworking Carrington general, touchdown 108 of 416 complete punches in comparison with the 91 landed out of 358 makes an attempt from Segawa.
Segawa entered the struggle coming off his greatest win up to now, having upset WBC no. 1 ranked featherweight Ruben Villa, successful a unanimous determination.
In earlier motion, Vito Mielnicki (20-1, 12 KOs) gained his second straight struggle since signing with Prime Rank, defeating Italian Khalil El Harraz (16-6-1, 2 KOs) by majority determination in a ten spherical junior middleweight struggle. One choose had the struggle even at 95-95 whereas the opposite two had it 100-90 and 98-92 in favor of the New Jersey native Mielnicki.
Elvis Rodriguez (17-1-1, 13 KOs) scored a unanimous determination over Kendo Castaneda (21-7, 9 KOs) by scores of 100-90 on two playing cards and 99-91 on the third.
Delante “Tiger” Johnson (14-0, 6 KOs) scored an eight spherical unanimous determination over his most skilled opponent as a professional, defeating Yomar Alamo (22-3-1, 13 KOs) by scores of 78-74 on two playing cards and 77-75 on the third. Johnson, 26, of Cleveland, Ohio was a 2020 U.S. Olympian.
