By Bob Smith – 09/21/2024 – Feedback
2020 Olympic silver medalist heavyweight Richard Torrez Jr. (11-0, 10 KOs) beat the overmatched veteran Joey Dawejko (28-12-4, 16 KOs) in a one-sided contest, profitable by a fifth-round disqualification on Friday night time on the Desert Diamond Enviornment in Glendale, Arizona.
Dawejko saved dropping his mouthpiece, which triggered the referee to lose endurance with him and disqualify him within the fifth spherical of their co-feature battle. It had fallen out 4 occasions within the fourth after he was tagged exhausting by the heavy-handed 25-year-old Torrez Jr.
The referee twice docked Dawejko’s pints within the fourth spherical and warned him that he would DQ him if he misplaced it once more. Positive sufficient, one minute into the fifth, Dawejko misplaced his mouthpiece after being hit exhausting by Torrez Jr. The referee then stopped the battle at 2:02 of the fifth.
It wasn’t a lot of a battle because the southpaw Torrez Jr tagged the out-of-shape-looking Dawejko at will with photographs, connecting with some huge punches in each spherical. By the fourth, Dawejko was bleeding from the nostril and seemed like he didn’t wish to be there. He wasn’t throwing many punches and simply taking huge photographs.
After twice dropping factors within the fourth, Dawejko got here alive within the fifth spherical and nailed Torrez Jr. a number of occasions with huge proper arms that had the group cheering loudly. Nevertheless, simply when the battle was getting attention-grabbing, the referee stepped in and halted it after Dawejko misplaced his mouthpiece for the fifth time.
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