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British tremendous middleweight standout Zach Parker dropped Marcus Morrison 3 times en path to a powerful fourth-round stoppage on the Utilita Enviornment in Birmingham on Saturday.
The naturally greater Parker (22-0, 16 KOs) seemed to impose himself in opposition to Morrison (24-5, 16 KOs) within the opening spherical. It paid off with simply over a minute gone within the second spherical when he harm Morrison with a left to the physique and dropped him with a proper hand to the physique that looped across the guard of his opponent.
Morrison recovered however was on the canvas for the second time, once more by a proper hand to the physique, with simply over 30 seconds left within the spherical. The Manchester synthetic it to his ft and accomplished the spherical.
Parker dictated the motion within the third with fast mixtures typically strolling Morrison backwards. Morrison, who went 10-rounds in a shedding effort to Chris Eubank Jr. in Might, did handle to land a proper hand nevertheless it didn’t transfer Parker, who continued to press stroll his rival down.
The 27-year-old from Derby harm Morrison and dropped him with one other physique shot early within the spherical. Morrison’s coach, Joe Gallagher, seemed poised to throw within the towel however Morrison jumped to his ft and wished to proceed. Parker was ruthlessly environment friendly, pinning Morrison on the ropes and raining punches on his helpless bloodied opponent till referee Bob Williams jumped in at 2:51 to finish proceedings.
Afterwards Parker, who’s the WBO’s No. 1 contender, mentioned he made an announcement by turning into the primary man to cease Morrison and admitted he has his eye on the winner of Canelo Alvarez-Caleb Plant later right now in addition to a home rival.
“Too huge, too robust for these tremendous middleweights,” mentioned Parker. “I need Canelo to win, if Plant wins there’s going to be rematch. I need Canelo subsequent; I’ve been necessary for 2 years now. If Canelo wins tonight and doesn’t need it, I need Chris Eubank, cease being a s__thouse. Let’s have it.
“The British followers need me to wipe [Eubank] out, whoever will get on this ring, I’m going to wipe out. We’re going proper to the highest.”
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