Miami, FL – Jon ‘Bones’ Jones’ shocked ringside response – arms on head, mouth open in shock – spoke for everybody who witnessed Yoel ‘Soldier of God’ Romero’s thunderous first-round KO finally night time’s Soiled Boxing Championship inaugural occasion in Miami, FL.
The MMA famous person was one in all a number of huge names of the fight sports activities world who had obtained an invite to the closed-door launch occasion for the struggle business’s hottest new promotion, with Paige van Zant and heavyweight boxing contender Jarrell Miller additionally noticed ringside throughout the occasion.
Romero was introduced because the shock headliner for the cardboard simply 24 hours earlier than the occasion befell. He confronted Duane Crespo, a US Marines veteran who fought professionally in Muay Thai and MMA earlier than not too long ago gravitating to the PowerSlap promotion owned by UFC president Dana White.
Sparks flew rapidly within the heavyweight bout and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than it was throughout: a superman punch from Romero staggered Crespo backwards throughout the ring earlier than a sequence of follow-up blows led to an overhand left which slumped Crespo to the canvas.
The stoppage was the fifth KO win on the night’s eight-fight card, with three bouts ending the primary spherical and two within the second. Among the many different finishes, UFC veteran Fabio Cherant was completed within the first spherical of his heavyweight bout with Rob Perez whereas GLORY Kickboxing veteran Anvar Boynazarov scored a second-round stoppage.
“I informed everybody this was going to be one thing particular and god rattling I used to be not flawed. I knew these guidelines would make for loopy fights. Each single one in all them was a banger. Issues acquired soiled in there for actual. We’ve labored tremendous laborious on this for a very long time now and I couldn’t be happier with how this occasion turned out. I’m 100% constructive now that struggle followers are going to like this,” mentioned ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry, Chief Violence Workplace at Soiled Boxing Championship.
Soiled Boxing CEO Adam Kovacs added, “This was absolutely the best struggle promotion debut in fight sports activities historical past! The ring, the principles, the ambiance, the fights – every part was completely electrical. It was an unbelievable night time. That Yoel Romero end, holy sh-t. That gave everybody goosebumps. It wasn’t simply huge names from struggle world ringside, we had lots of people from lots of completely different business sectors and we’re already having some very fascinating conversations within the aftermath of this non-public present,”
Soiled Boxing Championship is the brainchild of ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry and his enterprise companions Adam Kovacs (former Karate Fight President), serial entrepreneur Josh McClean and the achieved Kawa brothers of First Spherical Administration.
Saturday night time’s occasion befell behind closed doorways in entrance of a specially-selected group of invitees from throughout the sports activities, finance and broadcast world. Movies from the occasion can be launched to the official Soiled Boxing Championship social media channels within the coming days, commencing with Romero’s headline bout.
Full Outcomes:
Yoel Romero (CUB) def. Duane Crespo (USA), KO, R1
Heavyweight Bout, Major Occasion
Solomon Renfro (USA) def. Jeremiah Truhlar (USA), Unanimous Determination, R3
Welterweight Bout (170 lbs)
Rob Perez (USA) def. Fabio Cherant (USA), KO, R1
Heavyweight Bout
Maike Linhares (BRA) def. Eddie Perez Bruno (USA), Unanimous Determination, R3
Catchweight Bout, 160 lbs
Anvar Boynazarov (UZB) def. Thiago Belo (BRA), KO, R2
Featherweight Bout (145 lbs)
Corey Jackson (USA) def. Chris Burton (USA), KO, R2
Light-weight Bout (155lbs)
Claudia Zamora (USA) def. Monica Medina (USA), KO, R1 (Physique Shot)
Bantamweight Bout (135 lbs)
Guilherme Bastos (BRA) def. Tyler Scott (USA), Determination, R4 Further Spherical
Welterweight Bout (170 lbs)
Roberto Villa is the CEO, Founder, Govt Author, Senior Editor of FightBook MMA. Has a ardour for Fight Sports activities and likewise a podcast host for Sitting Ringside. He’s additionally a former MMA fighter and Kickboxer.
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