The struggle for the inaugural Ring journal junior welterweight championship of the world was settled by huge margins as Northampton’s Chantelle Cameron noticed off a spirited problem from Indiana’s Mary McGee.
Cameron unified the WBC and IBF titles within the course of, profitable by scores of 100-90, 99-91 and 99-92.
There was not a lot between the ladies within the opening two rounds. McGee was arguably extra poised and boasted the flashier punches however Cameron had her personal success with spells of stress, making McGee work. She bundled the American to the ground after they traded blows to complete the second session.
Each landed eye-catching pictures within the third, McGee a proper uppercut and Cameron a straight proper nevertheless it was nonetheless shut and exhausting fought.
Within the fourth, Cameron nailed McGee with a giant left hook that noticed each firing away for a sustained spell of buying and selling however Cameron’s work charge noticed her earn the session even when McGee scored from the southpaw stance close to the bell.
Cameron appeared to edge the fifth and sixth because the busier fighter who was out touchdown her opponent however McGee targeted her assault on the physique within the seventh and that labored, though there have been a number of hefty exchanges because the spherical wore on.
The Northampton lady loved a stable eighth and her health allowed her to take the ninth, too, as McGee slowed.
McGee began the final spherical quick, going for broke, and Cameron back-pedaled. The American blazed away to earn the spherical however the struggle had already handed her by.
Cameron improved to 15-0. McGee is now 27-4 and performed her half in an excellent struggle.
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Texas veteran Eric Molina was dropped within the opening seconds by Croatia’s free-swinging Alen Babic and stopped in Spherical 2. A brief proper hand seemed as if it is likely to be devastating however he spoiled his approach via the spherical and landed an honest proper of his personal with 30 seconds left within the session.
However Babic got here out firing within the second and Molina hit the deck thrice in all and whereas he was given counts every time at the least two knockdowns appeared to see him bundled to the ground reasonably than struck cleanly, together with the decisive ‘knockdown’. Perhaps he simply hadn’t recovered from that first knockdown, or possibly, at 28-8 and on the age of 39 the wear and tear and tear has caught up with him.
“He [Molina] did nicely to stand up, then he selected to not stand up,” stated promoter Eddie Hearn. “That’s his final payday from us.”
Babic is now 9-0. “I bought slightly reckless,” admitted the at all times excitable Croat.
The time of the stoppage was 1:30 of Spherical 2.
The favored “Romford Bull” Johnny Fisher improved to 4-0 stopping Spain’s Alvaro Terrero in two rounds. Fisher is likely to be the most-popular fighter within the planet with fewer than 5 contests.
A lot of the crowd on the O2 Enviornment was there to see him after Dillian Whyte pulled out of his scheduled principal occasion date with Otto Wallin little greater than every week in the past.
Plucky Terrero was down thrice and stopped at 2:06 of the second session.
Former light-heavyweight title challenger Craig Richards undid Poland’s Marek Matyja with a proper uppercut and piled in with each arms to complete him off after 2:34 of the sixth spherical.
In an upset, Texan Jorge Castenada, now 15-1, outscored 13-1-1 Youssef Khoumari, from Wembley, in a fast-paced junior light-weight struggle that included some scintillating exchanges.
