Lucas Badhi flexes on the weigh-in for his showdown with closely favored Ashton Sylve.
Lucas Bahdi upset one in every of boxing’s high younger prospects, Ashton Sylve, scoring a chilling sixth-round knockout on the undercard of the Jake Paul-Michael Perry occasion on Saturday on the Amalie Area in Tampa, Florida.
Previous to the stoppage, Bahdi (17-0, 15 KOs), an unheralded junior welterweight/welterweight from Niagra Falls, Canada, had been outclassed by the 20-year-old native of Lengthy Seaside, California. Sylve (11-1, 9 KOs) persistently made Bahdi miss utilizing deft upper-body motion whereas beating the plodding 30-year-old to the punch. By the fifth spherical, Bahdi’s nostril was a bloody mess and he gave the impression to be out of concepts as Sylve landed flush hooks, uppercuts, physique photographs and counterpunches at will.
Nonetheless, the gifted Californian tried to shut the present in Spherical 6, making use of arduous strain and opening up his offense to incorporate three- and four-punch mixtures for the primary time within the one-sided battle, and that was all the chance Bahdi wanted to show the tables in surprising style.
With 35 seconds left in Spherical 6, Bahdi landed a jolting lead proper and adopted up with a head-swiveling proper cross-left hook mixture that immediately turned Sylve’s lights out. The younger man fell face first to the canvas the place he remained for just a few very tense moments.
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As soon as Sylve was on his ft, and seemingly OK, Badhi was interviewed within the ring.
“Massive due to my coach,” he informed Ariel Helwani when requested how he turned the battle round after being dominated. “He informed me it’s going to be powerful to start with, however you’re going to get him. (Sylve) could be very twitchy, very fast. I used to be making an attempt to get to his physique early on, however I used to be a bit of hesitant for some cause. It was powerful to the touch him to start with.”
And never so troublesome as soon as Sylve opened up offensively. It gained’t be straightforward rebounding from a KO-of-the-12 months candidate stoppage, however time is on Sylve’s facet.
Sylve had been scheduled to face fellow younger light-weight up-and-comer Floyd Schofield on the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul undercard earlier than that occasion was postponed.
Now Bahdi may very well be in place to tackle Schofield and take a look at one other scorching prospect.
