Derek Chisora defeated Joe Joyce by a ten-round unanimous choice in the primary occasion on Saturday night time on the O2 Enviornment in London, England. Within the co-main occasion, WBC Worldwide tremendous featherweight champion Ryan ‘The Piranha’ Garner retained his title, defeating Archie ‘Sharpshooter’ Sharp by a ten-round unanimous choice in a battle of unbeaten boxers.
In the primary occasion, 2016 Olympic Silver Medalist and former British, European, and present WBO Interim heavyweight champ Joyce (16-3, 15 KOs) misplaced by a 10-round unanimous choice to former British, Commonwealth, WBO, and WBA Worldwide champ Chisora (35-13, 23 KOs).
Within the first spherical, they clinched inside seconds. Chisora principally went to the physique, taking the spherical as Joyce walked to the unsuitable nook on the bell. Within the second spherical, Chisora, the shorter of the 2, began going to Joyce’s chin. A left hook from Chisora on the facet of Joyce’s head within the remaining ten seconds rocked Joyce.
Within the third spherical’s remaining minute, Joyce landed his finest punch of the battle up till now: a proper uppercut on Chisora’s chin. Within the remaining seconds, Joyce landed a strong left to Chisora’s chin, taking the spherical. Within the fourth spherical, the 40-year-old Chisora landed punches, with the 38-year-old Joyce tying him up and strolling him to the ropes.
Within the fifth spherical’s remaining minute, each landed haymakers, with Chisora touchdown a 3-punch mixture and Joyce touchdown the ultimate punch, a proper on the chin. One other Chisora spherical. Within the sixth spherical’s remaining twenty seconds, Chisora landed a pair of rights to Joyce’s chin.
Within the seventh spherical’s remaining seconds, Joyce had Chisora in a nook and obtained rocked with an overhand proper from Chisora, who took one other spherical. Joyce continued strolling Chisora to the ropes earlier and nearly via the ropes with out warning from referee Kevin Parker.
Within the eighth spherical’s remaining minute, a double left hook from Joyce on the chin damage Chisora. Within the ninth spherical’s remaining minute, Chisora, coming off the ropes, landed a proper on the chin, and down went Joyce for an 8-count from Referee Parker.
Within the tenth and remaining spherical’s remaining minute, Chisora landed a number of punches that rocked Joyce. Each ended up with swelling below their proper eyes. The scores had been 96-94, 96-94, and 97-92. I scored it 97-92.
Southpaw Dennis ‘The Menace’ McCann (16-0-1, 8) KOs) beat Ionut ‘Il’ Capo (16-5-1, 3 KOs by a twelve-round unanimous choice to win the vacant EBU European Tremendous Bantamweight title. The scores had been 120-108, 117-111, and 117-111.
Within the co-main occasion, WBC Worldwide tremendous featherweight champion Ryan ‘The Piranha’ Garner (16-0, 8 KO) defeated WBO No. 3 Archie ‘Sharpshooter’ Sharp (25-1, 9 KOs) by a ten-round unanimous choice.
Within the third spherical, Sharp was lower over the left eye, probably from a conflict of heads. After dropping the primary two rounds, Sharp could have received this one. Within the fourth spherical, Sharp, wildly swinging, obtained a second lower outdoors the left eye from one other conflict of heads, although referee Victor Loughlin didn’t name something.
Within the fifth spherical, Garner used his head with out warning from Referee Loughlin, who hadn’t warned both from fouling. Within the sixth spherical, Garner rocked Sharp midway via the spherical with a proper to the chin, and the blood continued down the left facet of Sharp’s face.
Within the seventh spherical, referee Loughlin lastly gave Garner his first warning for utilizing his shoulder. It was one other spherical for Garner. Within the eighth spherical, Sharp landed overhand proper on the chin, which didn’t appear to have an effect on Garner.
Within the ninth spherical, referee Loughlin, for a second time, warned Sharp for hitting Garner on the again. Garner continued chasing Sharp, and when he would catch Sharp, he would go away himself huge open for his pictures, however with little impact. Within the tenth and remaining spherical, bothfighters threw bombs, attempting to finish it. The scores had been 98-92, 97-93 and 97-93.
WBC Worldwide featherweight champion Raven ‘The Omen’ Chapmen (9-0, 2) KO) defeated Yohana ‘Daniela Cruces’ Sarabia (10-1, 6 KO by a ten-round unanimous choice. The scores had been 100-90, 100-90, and 100-90.
WBO Inter-Continental Heavy champ southpaw Moses Itauma (10-0, 6) stopped Mariusz ‘The Viking’ Wach (38-11, 20) at 2:32 of the second spherical of a scheduled ten rounds.
Within the first spherical, the shorter Itauma jabbed in, having his method to take the spherical. Within the second spherical, with little over a minute remaining, southpaw Itauma landed half a dozen punches, ending with a proper hook to the chin, dropping Wach for an 8-count from Referee Michael Alexander.
Upon rising, Itauma was throughout him, driving him right into a nook. He landed half a dozen unanswered punches earlier than Referee Alexander correctly referred to as a halt.
Welterweight Sean Noakes (8-0, 4 KO) defeated Inder Bassi (12-3, 1 KO) by unanimous choice in ten rounds. The scores had been 97-94, 96-94, and 96-94.
Southpaw Royston ‘Sugar Boy Roy’ Barney-Smith (11-0, 5 KO) defeated Brian Barajas, 7-1-1, 3 KO) by an eight-round unanimous choice to win the vacant WBO Youth Tremendous Featherweight title. The scores had been 79-73, 78-74, and 78-74.
Featherweight Umar Kahn (10-0, 1 KO) defeated Kaddour Hmiani (4-3-2, 2 KO) by an eight-round factors choice. Referee Sean McAvoy scored it 78-73.
Mild welterweight Brandun Lee (29-0, 23 KOs) beat Juan Anacona (11-1, 6 KOs) by an eight-round factors choice. Referee Mark Bates scored it 78-74.
Tremendous Light-weight southpaw Aadam Hamed (1-0, 1) KO) was victorious over Georgi ‘Child Face’ Velichkov (4-22-1, 3 KOs), profitable a four-round factors choice. Referee Sean McAvoy scored it 40-36.
Light-weight Jermaine Dhilwayo (1-0) defeated Engel ‘El Cohete’ Gomez (8-33-3, 4 KO) by a 4-round factors choice. Referee Mark Bates scored it 40-36
The ring Announcer was Thomas Trieber.
