In an enormous check, Richardson Hitchins battles Gustavo Lemos in an IBF gentle welterweight title eliminator tonight, stay on DAZN, within the headliner on the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Las Vegas.
Boxing Information 24 will probably be giving stay updates beneath of tonight’s motion.
2020 Olympic gold medalist flyweight prospect Galal Yafai (7-0, 5 KOs) stopped Agustin Gauto (21-2, 15 KOs) within the eighth spherical. The time of the stoppage was at 2:40 of spherical eight.
The heavy-handed Gauto shocked Yafai within the fifth spherical with a giant left hand late. Yafai was reduce over his left eye from a conflict of heads. within the sixth. The referee gave the 31-year-old Yafai numerous leeway, permitting him to push repeatedly all through the competition with out penalizing him.
The pushing was an enormous a part of Yafai’s sport tonight, letting him maintain the highly effective Gauta from getting shut sufficient to land. Had that unlawful transfer been addressed, it may need been a special consequence.
General, not an awesome efficiency by Yafai, as he bought hit quite a bit and was taking too many huge photographs. It’s exhausting to consider he was an Olympic gold medalist as a result of he didn’t look it tonight.
The referee Raul Caiz Jr. stopped the combat attributable to Gauta getting hit with an accumulation of punches.
Skye Nicholson (10-0, 1 KOs) dominated Sara Mahfoud (14-2, 3 KOs), successful a large ten-round unanimous choice to win the vacant WBC world feminine featherweight title.
The scores had been 100-90, 100-90, and 99-91. The southpaw Nicholson outboxed the 34-year-old Mahfoud together with her protection, hitting and avoiding the return fireplace from the shorter fighter to win a straightforward choice.
Tremendous featherweight prospect Marc Castro (11-0, 8 KOs) labored his method to a harder-than-expected ten-round unanimous choice over veteran Abraham Montoya (22-6-1, 14 KOs). The scores had been 100-90, 98-92, and 97-93.
The 24-year-old Castro struggled early within the combat, getting hit quite a bit by Montoya and searching fatigued from the quick tempo of the Mexican fighter. From rounds 4 by means of seven, Castro managed the combat with tougher, cleaner photographs.
Montoya got here again within the eighth spherical to land many photographs to Castro’s head and physique, who retreated across the ring. Within the ninth and tenth rounds, the motion was aggressive, with each guys touchdown many photographs. Castro had extra energy on his punches however couldn’t damage Montoya.
After the tenth spherical ended, Castro continued throwing punches, touchdown a number of low-cost photographs that resulted in Montoya firing again and the 2 needing to be separated. All in all, Castro didn’t give a formidable efficiency.
For him to be taken critically as a future world champion at 130, he’s bought to combat higher than this as a result of he will get hit too simply. If Montoya had extra energy, Castro would have been in hassle tonight.
– Occasion begin time tonight: 8:00 p.m. ET / 1:00 a.m. The UK.
– Headliner ring walks at roughly 10:37 p.m. ET / 3:37 a.m. UK.
Hitchins (17-0, 7 KOs) and Lemos (29-0, 19 KOs) meet in an IBF 140-lb title eliminator, vying to develop into obligatory for the title held by Subriel Matias.
Curiously, Hitchins says he might choose to combat for the WBC title as a substitute, which might make tonight’s combat meaningless. It feels like Hitchins and his administration didn’t assume this factor by means of clearly after they selected Lemos to combat in an IBF eliminator.
Principal Card on DAZN beginning at 8:00 pm ET
Richardson Hitchins vs. Gustavo Lemos
Diego Pacheco vs. Shawn McCalman
Galal Yafai vs. Agustin Gauto
Skye Nicolson vs. Sarah Mahfoud
Marc Castro vs. Abraham Montoya
Preliminary fights on (DAZN at 6:40 pm ET
Harley Mederos vs. Pedro Vicente
Steven Navarro vs. Jose Lopez
The co-feature bout tonight between tremendous middleweight contender Diego Pacheco (20-0, 17 KOs) and Shawn McCalman (15-0, 7 KOs) might steal the present from the primary occasion, as these two fighters are anticipated to go to struggle tonight in a slugfest.
6’4″ Pacheco is a fighter that could possibly be the way forward for the 168-lb division as soon as the previous guard strikes on and retires or goes up in weight.
