SAUL “CANELO” ALVAREZ could face John Ryder next after the southern Islington player ended the best 12 months of his 12-year career with his first loss to Zach Parker, the bookies favorite. prefer.
Parker was eliminated after the fourth round of the scheduled 12th round at the O2 Arena with a right hand injury, a result that made Ryder a mandatory challenger for the WBO super middleweight belt.
Replays showed Ryder blocking Parker’s headbutt with his elbow early in the fourth inning and the 28-year-old from Woodville, Derbyshire, later said: “I couldn’t stop him with one hand. “
Parker says he’s “warming up the fight,” while Ryder reads it as “the tide is starting to change. I got more on top.
The scorecards support Ryder’s point of view. Judges Marcus McDonnell, Benoit Roussel and Matteo Montella all let the 34-year-old North Londoner advance to the fourth round.
Parker has won the opening three games for Mr McDonnell and Mr Roussel, while Mr Montella has left them on points after four.
Ryder delivered his best punch in a melee teamfight at the last minute of the fourth round, a left-handed blow to the jaw that sent Parker’s gum shield slamming out of his mouth.
Going into the fray, the feeling is that the fight will be decided by either Parker’s youth (six years younger) and size (three inches) or Ryder’s skill and experience at the highest level.
Ryder has hit 97 championship rounds to Parker’s 99 in his entire career and the older man had his best win yet, a split victory over Daniel Jacobs at Alexandra Palace in October. Two. In contrast, Parker hasn’t boxed in a year.
Ryder overcame Jacobs with a surge in the second half of the match after he lost the first innings and it is likely the match against Parker will play out the same way.
Parker used a lot of energy in the opening three rounds, Ryder clearly won the fourth round – and there are still eight rounds to go.
In three rounds, there was only one or two punches between them.
Parker moved and swapped, occasionally firing a long shot, while Ryder calmly managed to slip into range and find his target with jabs.
Ryder’s objections to a possible low hit in the second inning were waved by referee Howard Foster and Parker showed no sympathy for him either, hitting him on the chin unprotected while he We lose focus.
Ryder ignored it and got back to work.
The instruction for Ryder in his corner from coach Tony Sims was to “get him to work” and Parker was slow enough in the third round for Ryder to catch him on his way out with right hooks.
Ryder was quicker at the start of the fourth round and his supporters in the ring were excited as he approached Parker and let go.
Parker returned to the stabs before delivering the best punch of the match, Ryder’s accuracy remaining.
Nigel Benn brought Ryder into the ring and the Commonwealth middleweight belt he once held was contested in this Queensberry Promotion.
John Ryder receives confirmation of unsatisfactory win over Zach Parker
Hamzah Sheeraz brought the belt back to Ilford – where Benn ended his career – in impressive style, with referee Victor Loughlin ruling River Wilson-Bent could not lose any more after 2-55 of the second half.
Having only been beaten by Tyler Denny in the previous 15 games, Wilson-Bent (Cventry) was shaken repeatedly, fell down and his left eye was severely swollen.
Sheeraz has now stopped in round 11. The 23-year-old has a reputation for patiently taking down opponents, but before Wilson-Bent, he got right into the business.
Between them was only about an inch in height – Sheeraz with the advantage at 6ft 3ins – and Sheeraz was the one who found his range with the quicker lead hand. The speed and force of his thrusts caused Wilson-Bent to blink and disorganize and the crisis deepened as Sheeraz began to land on the right.
Wilson-Bent finished the first round with a concussion and blood gushing from an incision on his left cheek – and Sheeraz continued to drill him with left-right shots in the second inning.
Sheeraz had cornered him and, unable to see the incoming punches and with nowhere to go, Wilson-Bent fell to his knees.
Mr. Loughlin waved it away after getting up at “eight o’clock”.
Dennis McCann and Sam Noakes – both from Maidstone and fighting outside the iBox Gym in Bromley – also won vacant Commonwealth titles, at super bantamweight and lightweight respectively.
McCann stopped Glasgow’s Joe Ham in eighth, the best performance of the 21-year-old’s career. Ham has never been stopped before.
It is true that the Scotsman had only played three times in the previous three years – losing two – but he had played Jack Bateson for eight rounds, even more competitive than when he was here.
McCann, who had never made it past eight laps before, said, “I just knocked him down,” and was impressed. The star did a little more in the opening three innings as both reluctantly made the first move,
He bled Ham’s nose with headbutts and jumped over gears in the fourth inning after a successful landing.
Ham returned fire with his right, convincing McCann to stop attacking and return to picking single punches. McCann also had another two-fist strike in the fifth round after he stunned Ham and again the Scotsman held him back with a right.
Ham continued to finish the round on the front foot and could have taken the lead in a quieter sixth place, but you get the feeling McCann deliberately hit the gas and wanted the Scots to know his best effort. That wasn’t enough before speeding up again and putting him in his place.
Asked in his corner to “get him back”, Ham instead found himself pushed back in the seventh inning and finished the next.
McCann knocked Ham to the rope with a top-right-to-left strike and this time, he kept him there until Marcus McDonnell waved after 2-28 of the round.
Noakes proved too strong for Calvin McCord (Ayr), knocking him down four times in the fourth round with body blows before Mr Loughlin waved his hand.
The opening two innings were competitive as McCord was able to find some space, but once Noakes got close to him, there would only be one winner.
McCord felt his body get shot late in the third round and fell to his knees early in the fourth round after a similar punch.
Noakes didn’t let him recover, finishing 2-14 of the round after his fourth knockdown.
Pierce O’Leary (Dublin) was completed 10 innings by Emmanuel Mungandjela, a stubborn Namibian male player. The score is 99-90 (Victor Loughlin), 99-89 (Massimo Barrovecchio) and 96-92 (Alexander Walter).
The well-educated O’Leary knocked out clumsy Mungandjela in the first and fifth rounds with quality short punches and sent him wobbling for most of the round.
Each time, Mungandjela would straighten up and shoot back. Heavily shaken in the ninth round and far behind on points, Mungandjela engaged O’Leary early in the 10th round.orderbut after about a minute the Irish were back in charge.
Norfolk men’s tennis player Tommy Fletcher spectacularly knocked Jiri Krejci (Czech Republic) 2-19 in the scheduled fourth round with a left butt in a match made by Mr McDonnell The referee and Mr Lyson let Sonny Liston Ali (Romford) win all six rounds against the Bulgarian southern player, Georgi velichkov.
VERIFY: Anti-climactic ending to the main event but some showcase performances on the lower card
