David Avanesyan destroys Metz in 1st round TKO
European welterweight winner David Avanesyan created an emphatic assertion in a breathtaking fifth defense of his EBU belt at the OVO Arena, Wembley on Saturday evening.
His earlier unbeaten opponent Oskari Metz had no solutions after Avanesyan got to work and the Finn under no circumstances recovered from a brutal knockdown and was lastly saved from himself by the referee with just two minutes on the clock.
The winner, 24-4-1, will now await a ruling from the WBC – wherever he is rated No.2 – in excess of his passage to a shot at the winner Errol Spence jr.
In the co-major occasion, Hamzah Sheeraz was also making statements and placing down a marker in a new division as he secured the WBC International Silver title with a second-spherical knockout of Jez Smith.
Smith promised to carry the heat but was brutally picked off by the unbeaten Sheeraz, now 15- (11 KOs).
A sweet remaining hook planted Smith on the canvas in round a person as Sheeraz asserted authority in his very first struggle at middleweight. He was down again at the beginning of the second and failed to beat the depend just as his trainer Josh Burnham rightly threw in the towel.
Royston Barney-Smith shipped a glowing general performance on debut versus Adan Martinez, who was rocked on a number of situations across the initial two rounds by the accuracy of Barney-Smith’s punches.
The 18-12 months-outdated former two-time European winner as an newbie showed a lot more than adequate to propose he will be one particular to look at as he progresses as a result of the ranks. He punches thoroughly clean and tricky, doesn’t waste pictures, and employs a lot of wide variety in his do the job.
Martinez was a stubborn and great opponent who seemed to check out getting via the 4 rounds as a individual triumph. Referee Lee Each individual scored the fight 40-36 and Royston Barney-Smith is up and managing.
Sam Noakes defended his WBC Global Silver lightweight title with a ninth straight stoppage to edge closer to his intention of a great 10.
Soon after three one-sided rounds, the Italian Vincenzo Finiello was plonked to the canvas in the fourth by a peach of an uppercut that Finiello unsuccessful to recover from. Mark Lyson waved it off soon after 1min 54secs of the spherical.
Dennis McCann gathered the very first belt of his specialist career by successful the WBO Entire world Youth bantamweight title following defeating Charles Tondo above 8 challenging rounds.
The iBox Gym-experienced youngster started out on hearth with all his regular spite and swagger and looked like he could be in for an early evening, but Tondo responded and started to match fireplace with hearth.
Tondo came again into it across rounds 4 and 5, tagging McCann numerous occasions and punishing any indecision on the element of the 21-year-outdated. The Tanzanian was developing in self-confidence immediately after weathering the early storm and the pair engaged in a fiery shootout at the close of the sixth when McCann attempted to get back the momentum.
McCann re-set up some kind of regulate in the seventh as Tondo was set beneath a substantial assault and appeared, for the first time like he could be on the brink and demonstrating indicators of distress.
The Maidstone Menace started out to love himself in the remaining round and was duly declared the victor by a 79-73 scoreline on all three cards.
Mark Chamberlain notched up the most significant gain of his profession to arrive at 10-, forcing the retirement in the corner of Jeff Ofori after 5 rounds mainly dominated by the Waterlooville light-weight.
Chamberlain designed all the functioning and forced Ofori onto the again foot, irrespective of whether he wanted to be or not. The 23-yr-aged is now firmly in the picture for sizeable title motion and a earn these as this implies he is the serious offer and one particular to watch at the fat.
Masood Abdulah ongoing his limited reign of terror at super-featherweight. His six-rounder from
Sandeep Singh Bhatti followed a sample of the Islington man employing the Indian’s experience for target practice, but the hardy Bhatti was recreation as they appear and was hazardous with lunging counters.
Abdulah created it four stoppages out of 4 when referee Mark Lyson had noticed Bhatti just take much more than plenty of and waved it off just after 1min 20sec of the closing round.
Henry Turner, the super attractive super lightweight, scored his initial stoppage victory to acquire himself to 7-, placing Ivan Njesac down in the third ahead of referee Lee Each and every stepped in to conclusion proceedings after 2 minutes 18 secs of the round.
In the opening bouts of the night, welterweight Khalid Ali produced it to 2- with a 40-36 points victory more than Josue Bendana, with tremendous-lightweight hope Sonny Liston Ali clocking up a third win in the specialist ranks by way of a 60-52 margin. His opponent Lee Glover was floored in the to start with and ultimate round.
