Tonight’s loaded ESPN card begins at 8:30 p.m. ET, that includes WBC light-weight world champion Shakur Stevenson preventing Artem Harutyunyan in the primary occasion. WBC tremendous featherweight champion O’Shaquie Foster is defending in opposition to #1 Robson Conceicao.
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– Light-weight contender Abdullah Mason (14-0, 12 KOs) destroyed veteran Luis Lebron (20-6-1, 13 KOs), stopping him within the third spherical of a scheduled eight-round struggle. The 20-year-old Mason dropped Lebron, 31, twice within the second spherical, bloodying his nostril.
Within the third spherical, Mason backed Lebron to the ropes, unloading on him with heavy pictures, ending with a left to the physique that doubled him over. The referee then stepped in and stopped the competition at 1:18 of the spherical. “I assume he couldn’t deal with the smoke,” stated Mason after the struggle.
– Tremendous featherweight prospect Enid Garcia (19-1, 12 KOs) outboxed William Foster III (17-2, 11 KOs), profitable a large ten-round unanimous determination. The scores had been 99-91, 98-92 and 98-92.
Foster was in hassle within the second spherical, getting caught repeatedly by Garcia, 30, and outclassed. Garcia appeared to fade a bit down the stretch and spent a lot of the time on the surface boxing.
Different fights on the primary card embrace light-weight contender Keyshawn Davis taking over knockout artist Miguel Madueno and light-weight expertise Abdullah Mason going through Luis Lebron.
Struggle info:
Location: Prudential Middle in Newark, New Jersey
Time of occasion: 8:30 p.m. ET / 1:00 a.m. UK
Headliner ringwalks approximate: 11:00 p.m. ET / 4:00 a.m. UK
ESPN+ & ESPN, 8:30 pm ET – Essential card
Shakur Stevenson vs. Artem Harutyunyan
O’Shaquie Foster vs. Robson Conceicao
Keyshawn Davis vs. Miguel Madueno
Abdullah Mason vs Luis Lebron
Essential Occasion: Shakur Stevenson vs. Artem Harutyunyan
There’s a whole lot of curiosity from hardcore followers in the primary occasion between Shakur Stevenson (21-0, 10 KOs) and challenger Artem Harutyunyan (13-1, 7 KOs). That is the final struggle of the 27-year-old self-glorifying Shakur’s contract with Prime Rank, and he has visions of being sought out by different promoters as a free agent.
Shakur should escape of his ordinary preventing model of fencing and make it entertaining for followers, as a result of he can not put followers at house asleep and anticipate promoters to wish to waste their time signing him until it’s a brief one-fight deal in opposition to a fighter that sells.
Co-Essential Occasion: O’Shaquie Foster vs. Robson Conceicao
Within the co-feature bout, WBC tremendous featherweight champion O’Shaquie Foster (22-2, 12 KOs) defends in opposition to 2016 Olympic gold medalist Robson Conceicao (18-2-1, 9 KOs), who arguably ought to solely have one defeat on his report.
Conceicao has gotten a rotten deal in fights in opposition to Oscar Valdez and Emanuel Navarrete, each of which he appeared to win, however the judges failed to offer him the victory.
The one true defeat on Conceicao’s resume was in opposition to Shakur Stevenson, who got here in 1.6 lbs chubby, and fought defensively complete struggle in match a lot nearer than the broad scores the judges on this New Jersey-based bout scored.
In a ten-round struggle, light-weight contender Keyshawn Davis (10-0, 7 KOs) is preventing one other confidence-booster in Miguel Madueno (31-2, 28 KOs).
