Kingsley Ibeh has overcome setbacks early in his professional profession to grow to be a legit prospect within the heavyweight division.
Ibeh knocked out Jack Might within the opening spherical late Saturday evening on the Emerald Wueen On line casino in Tacoma, Washington.
The knockout win doesn’t come as a shock to promoter Azat Torosyan, who believes Ibeh has a future within the division.
“With Kingsley Ibeh, you will have an actual sleeper within the heavyweight division,” Torosyan informed The Ring on Monday afternoon. “And whereas individuals are sleeping on him, he’s placing folks to sleep.”
From the opening bell, each Ibeh and Might have been on the assault. Ibeh discovered a gap, throwing and touchdown a counter left hook to the top, dropping Might to the canvas towards the ropes. Might was counted out at 59 seconds.
Exterior of a no-contest towards Mario Heredia on September 7, Ibeh has received his final 4 bouts.
Ibeh must be acquainted to boxing followers, having fought 4 occasions on High Rank playing cards in 2020 and 2021 on the famed ‘Bubble,’ which was the MGM Convention Heart in Las Vegas, through the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 30-year-old Ibeh, who’s initially from Nigeria and now resides in Phoenix, Arizona, has excelled during the last couple of years, accumulating wins 9 consecutive victories since a knockout loss to contender Jared Anderson in February 2021. Ibeh additionally has a draw towards Guido Vianello, which happened over 4 months previous to the loss to Anderson.
Apart from the loss to Anderson, Ibeh’s different defeat happened in his second professional struggle in October 2019, shedding by cut up choice to Waldo Cortes Acosta. Ibeh would avenge the loss in a rematch by knocking out Cortes in June 2020.
Ibeh is the youthful cousin of heavyweight contender Ike Ibeabuchi.
With the win, Ibeh improved to 14-2-1 (12 knockouts). Might, who resides within the Los Angeles suburb of Chino Hills, falls to 10-1 (9 KOs). In his earlier struggle on August 29, Might stopped John Shipman within the opening spherical.
The 43-year-old had solely confronted three opponents with profitable data previous to the loss to Ibeh.
Within the co-feature, tremendous middleweights Juan Barajas and Antonio Louis Hernandez (7-19-4, 4 KOs) of Kansas Metropolis, Missouri fought to a majority choice draw. One decide scored the bout 58-56 for Hernandez, whereas the opposite two judges scored the bout 57-57.
Barajas, who resides in Victorville, California and was combating for the primary time since a attract November 2020, goes to 11-0-2, 7 KOs.
Cruiserweight Marquice Weston of Tacoma improved to 16-3-2, 9 KOs, stopping John Shipman (5-8, 2 KOs) within the opening spherical.
Light-weight Samvel Gandilyan of Medvedovskaya, Russia stopped Oakland’s Ezra Rabin (1-8, 1 KO) in spherical 4. Gandilyan improved to 5-0-1, 3 KOs.
Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October 2013 and has lined boxing in Southern California and overseas since 2000. Francisco additionally covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He will be reached at [email protected]
