In an instance of sentimental match-making gone fallacious by High Rank, heavyweight contender Jared Anderson (17-0, 15 KOs) labored to a boring 10-round unanimous resolution towards the obscure former cruiserweight Ryad Merhy (32-3, 26 KOs) on Saturday evening on the American Financial institution Middle in Corpus Christi, Texas. The followers booed the struggle all evening. Each fighters had been poor.
The scores had been 100-90, 100-90, and 99-91. Merhy confirmed no real interest in throwing punches, and Anderson was too timid and weak to knock him out.
Once more, High Rank dropped the ball with their protecting match-making. They’re doing Anderson favors with this type of match-making.
Undercard outcomes:
Heavyweight fringe contender Efe Ajagba (20-1, 14 KOs) overcame a foul begin a horrible end to edge Guido Vianello (12-2-1, 10 KOs) by a ten spherical break up resolution within the chief assist bout.
The scores had been 96-94 for Vianello, 96-94 and 96-94 for Ajagba. Vianello damage Ajagba unhealthy within the second spherical with a proper to the top, and had him near being stopped after unloading with a barrage of pictures on the finish of the spherical.
Ajagba was saved by the bell. After the spherical ended, a badly damage Ajagba staggered to the impartial nook and needed to be redirected to his nook.
Vianello gassed out after two rounds, and Ajagba was in a position to come on to look to win the center rounds. Nevertheless, Vianello got here on sturdy within the ninth and tenth and outlanded and outworked Ajagba, who was principally simply clinching.
All in all, it was an attention-grabbing struggle. Neither of those guys appears to be like destined to win a world title. Ajagba was fortunate Vianello wasn’t an even bigger puncher as a result of he would have been stopped tonight.
2016 Olympic gold medalist Robson Conceicao (18-2-1, 9 KOs) stopped an overmatched Juan Guardado (15-2-1, 5 KOs) within the seventh spherical in tremendous featherweight motion. Conceicao dropped Guardado twice with physique pictures to get the stoppage.
The struggle was waved off on the 2:27 mark. Within the first knockdown, the Brazilian Conceicao landed a left to Guardado’s liver, sending him down in ache on the canvas. Guardado barely beat the rely, getting up at 9. Conceicao then landed a left-right to Guardado’s physique, sending him down for a second time. The referee then waved it off.
This struggle seemed to be a gift from High Rank to Conceicao after he was arguably robbed of a victory in his final struggle towards WBO tremendous featherweight champion Emanuel Navarrete final November. He appeared to beat Navarrete, however the judges scored it a 12-round draw.
Middleweight prospect Julian Delgado (1-0) defeated Juan Tamez (1-1) by a four-round unanimous resolution. The struggle was action-packed, with a number of punches thrown and never a lot approach from both man.
The hometown man, 22-year-old Delgado, obtained the nod with the scores 40-36, 39-36, and 40-36.
Featherweight contender Ruben Villa (22-1, 7 KOs) outboxed the surprisingly robust Christian Cruz Chacon (22-7-1, 11 KOs), profitable a 10-round unanimous resolution. The scores had been 98-92, 98-92, and 97-93.
Cruz, 27, pressured the extremely technical Villa all through the primary half, touchdown good pictures. Villa utilized a number of stress down the stretch, sporting Cruz down along with his jabs and straight lefts to place him on the retreat. Within the tenth, each guys traded good pictures to complete out the struggle.
Welterweight prospect John Rincon (9-0, 2 KOs) defeated Yainiel Alvarez (3-4, 1 KOs) by a six-round majority resolution. The scores had been 57-57, 58-56 and 59-55. The southpaw Rincon landed the cleaner pictures along with his left arms to the top of the 33-year-old Cuban Alvarez.
In rounds 5 and 6, Alvarez took the struggle to Rincon, outworking him with mixtures and aggressiveness. Nevertheless, he’d given away too many earlier rounds to come back again.
Alvarez began off the struggle with roughhouse ways, touchdown rabbit punches within the first and second rounds. Within the second, he was warned for hitting Rincon within the again with punches after bending him over.
Light-weight contender Abdullah Mason (13-0, 11 KOs) destroyed Ronal Ron (14-6, 11 KOs) in a fourth-round technical knockout. Mason, 20, unloaded with a barrage of pictures within the fourth spherical, inflicting referee Lawrence Cole to step in and halt the competition. The time of the stoppage was at 1:02 of spherical 4.
The southpaw Mason knocked Ron down twice within the contest, dropping him in spherical one with a straight left to the top, and in spherical three with a tough left to the physique.
Tremendous featherweight Alejandro Guerrero (13-4, 10 KOs) defeated Jalen Walker (12-1-1, 10 KOs) by knockout within the seventh spherical. Walker’s nook threw within the towel within the seventh. The stoppage occurred at 1:35.
Heavyweight prospect Ali Feliz (1-0, 1 KO) stopped Anthony Woodson III (1-2, 1 KO) within the second spherical at 1:16.