QUEBEC CITY – One in every of boxing’s brightest prospects Abdullah Mason barely broke a sweat at Centre Videotron in Quebec Metropolis, taking out Mike Ohan Jr. in two rounds on the Christian Mbilli-Sergiy Derevyanchenko undercard.
The battle was halted on the 40 second mark.
Unknowingly, the lightweights rode to the weigh in collectively. Upon realizing that, the 2 embraced one another. Simply over 24 hours later these smiles turned to punches.
Mason (15-0, 13 knockouts) confirmed unerring poise earlier than discovering a house for a superbly positioned left hook turned uppercut that dropped Ohan (19-3, 9 KOs) to the seat of his pants late within the first spherical. To his credit score, he made his method to his ft and out of the spherical.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t lengthy till Ohan, whose father, Mike Sr. a former sparring associate of Marvin Hagler, was down once more. A speedy fireplace mixture left Ohan in a heap within the impartial nook. His nook correctly elected to name a halt and save their fighter for one more day.
“I landed to the physique, I may see he was a bit of shocked, after that I may see he wasn’t taking the initiative,” Mason mentioned in a post-fight interview. “I touched him up with two punches and that’s what bought him out of there.
“Completely [I feel there has been progress.] I really feel higher each time.”
Junior light-weight Leila Beaudoin outboxed Lizbeth Crespo over 10-rounds to file the unanimous determination.
The Canadian was awarded the choice 100-90, 99-91 and 98-92.
Beaudoin (12-1, 1 KO) was stronger and managed the middle of the ring in opposition to Crespo (15-8, 4 KOs) ) within the early going. She pressed the motion in opposition to the Bolivian born fighter, who lives and trains in Argentina.
Crespo, who’s a former South American champion at 126 and 135. Fell quick in a world title shot in opposition to Jennifer Han for the IBF featherweight title in 2018. She additionally got here up quick in opposition to Mikaela Mayer (UD 10) and, most lately, Maira Moneo (L UD 10) for the WBC Interim light-weight title, was trustworthy and saved coming as finest she may.
The 2 fiercely exchanged punches in Spherical 5 and 6 a lot to the respect of the group.
Crespo injected some tempo into proceedings in Spherical 9, chasing and harrying Beaudoin, who later bought again to boxing and staved off the guests aggressive assault.
Within the ultimate spherical each determined to commerce at ring heart in a ultimate effort to catch the attention of the judges.
Fashionable native tremendous middleweight Wilkens Mathieu scored a dominant 6-round unanimous determination over sturdy Facundo Galovar in a catchweight contest.
From the opening bell, Mathieu, nonetheless solely 19, was too quick and athletic for Galovar and although he was harm on a few events, Mathieu was unable to drop him and needed to accept a clear sweep on the scorecards 60-54 x3.
Mathieu (10-0, 6 KOs) used his stabbing jab to move and physique to maintain Galovar (15-12-2, 9 KOs) trustworthy within the early going. The house fighter landed a giant proper hand that noticed Galovar’s knee buckle late within the first spherical.
Stopping the Argentine fighter was at all times going to be a tricky ask, he’s solely been stopped as soon as beforehand. Mathieu’s velocity was evident when he flashed combos that drew loud cheers from the native crowd in Spherical 2.
Within the third spherical a left hand from Mathieu despatched spray off the Argentine spoilers head and later he had Galovar harm and overlaying up.
Over the following couple of rounds Mathieu showcased his talents and although he was on the lookout for the knockout it was by no means on. All in all it ought to be thought of an excellent efficiency and a worthwhile studying curve.
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