Heavyweight contender Zhilei Zhang (27-2-1, 22 KOs) didn’t disappoint, knocking out former WBC champion Deontay Wilder (43-4-1, 42 KOs) within the fifth spherical, giving Queensberry a clear sweep within the 5 vs. 5 occasion on Saturday evening on the Kingdom Area in Riyadh.
Zhang landed two huge proper arms to the pinnacle of Wilder within the fifth spherical to place him down flat on his again on the canvas. When the badly harm Deontay received again up, the referee waved it off after seeing that he was not in any situation to proceed. The official time of the stoppage was at 1:51 of spherical 5.
In a significant upset, Daniel Dubois (21-2, 20 KOs) wore down and stopped beforehand unbeaten Filip Hrgovic (17-1, 14 KOs) within the eighth spherical to win the IBF interim heavyweight title.
Dubois took loads of exhausting photographs from the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Hrgovic in rounds one by means of 5. Nevertheless, Dubois simply stored coming, touchdown his exhausting photographs, inflicting cuts over each of the 31-year-old Hrgovic’s eyes.
By the seventh spherical, Hrgovic was exhausted, practically defenseless on his toes, getting hammered by the youthful, stronger 26-year-old Dubois. Hrgovic was saved by the bell within the seventh.
Within the eighth spherical, Dubois went for the end, nailing Hrgovic with exhausting punches. The referee stopped the motion and had Hrgovic’s cuts exhamied by the ringside physician, who had the referee cease the battle. The time of the stoppage was at :57 of spherical eight.
WBA gentle heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs) defeated his substitute opponent Malik Zinad (22-1, 16 KOs) by a sixth-round technical knockout.
Bivol, 33, harm the upset-minded Zinad with a proper hand in spherical six after which unleashed a storm of photographs to trigger the referee Howard Foster to cease the battle. The time of the stoppage was at 2:06 of spherical six.
Bivol knocked Zinad down in spherical one with a left hook to the pinnacle. Zinad had been preventing nicely as much as that time, connecting with many stiff proper arms and jabs.
Zinad stored Bivol from doing a lot in rounds two by means of 5 by jabbing and throwing highly effective proper arms. He confirmed wonderful energy with the photographs he was hitting Bivol with, and he made him not wish to assault the way in which he usually does.
Undefeated middleweight contender Hamzah Sheeraz (20-0, 16 KOs) used his top and attain to put on down and cease Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams (16-1, 11 KOs) in spherical eleven of a WBC title eliminator.
Sheeraz, the Queensberry Group captain, unloaded sledgehammer photographs firstly of the eleventh to stagger Williams, sending him backward. The referee, Mark Lyson, then stepped in and waved it off.
Late within the tenth spherical, Sheeraz dropped Ammo Williams with a wonderfully timed proper hand to the pinnacle. Williams was badly harm when he received to his toes, however fortunately for him, the spherical ended earlier than Sheeraz might end him off. Nevertheless, Williams was too harm to get better between rounds and was instantly stopped firstly of the 11thi spherical.
Williams had his moments within the battle, hurting the 6’3″ Sheeraz with a straight left to the pinnacle in spherical one, and staggering him once more within the fourth. Sheeraz took over the battle from the fifth spherical, as stayed on the surface and getting nailed together with his energy jab and exhausting proper arms.
Ammo’s coach, Kevin Cunningham, regularly advised him to crowd Sheeraz and maintain the motion in shut, however he wasn’t constant in doing so. It regarded like he had no confidence in his potential to harm Sheeraz on the within, so he would retreat to the surface to load up on his lefts.
In hindsight, that was a foul concept becaue it allowed Sheeraz to make use of his jab, the equal of an influence punch, and his proper hand to land huge photographs.
Unbeaten Nick Ball (20-0-1, 11 KOs) used his nonstop strain to put on down and defeat WBA featherweight champion Raymond Ford (15-1-1, 8 KOs), profitable a razor-close twelve-round cut up resolution.
Scores: 115-113: Ball 115-113: Ball 115-113: Ford
Ford was reduce underneath his proper eye and above his left eye early within the contest from the photographs that Ball was raining on him together with his excessive work fee. Within the seventh spherical, Ford landed a robust proper hand that bloodied Ball’s nostril.
Ford received the higher of the motion from rounds seven by means of eleven, utilizing his jab and pinpoint lefts to outbox Ball. Within the essential twelfth spherical, Ball got here alive, firing uppercuts and combos to get the higher of Ford. That proved to be the important spherical within the battle.
Willy Hutchinson (18-1, 13 KOs) regarded excellent, boxing his solution to a one-sided twelve-round unanimous resolution victory over Craig Richards (18-4-1, 11 KOs). Hutchinson used motion and odd punching angles to dominate the 34-year-old Richards the complete battle.
Within the tenth, Hutchinson has Richards in bother after unloading a flurry of photographs whereas he was in opposition to the ropes. The referee might have referred to as it a knockdown as a result of the ropes held Richards up whereas he was getting shelled nonstop with photographs by Hutchinson. The judges scores have been 116-112, 117-111, and 119-109.
Hutchinson beat Richards a lot simpler than Dmitry Bivol had years in the past, and he confirmed that he may very well be a future world champion within the gentle heavyweight division with this efficiency.
