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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4640526, member: 289"] I checked in the ESPN+ card while all the lacrosse and baseball action were going on, (SU swept and the Mets won, too!). The undercard didn't amount out much. #13 middleweight Denzel Bentley knocked out #173 Kiernan Smith in 61 seconds. The #95 lightweight, Sam Noakes, did the same to #199 Karthik Sathish, a fighter from India. Moses Itauma had knocked out every fighter he'd ever faced, going 26-0 as an amateur and 2-0 as a pro. All it got him was a #346 ranking as a heavyweight and a bout with #386 Kostiantyn Dovbyshchenko, a man with a 9-11-1 record but whose claim to fame was that he'd never been knocked out. It seems to be his only skill. He still hasn't, losing a 6 rounder 54-60. They said as the fight started that Itauma was "the future of the heavyweight divsion in the UK". We'll see. Then they had a women's bought featuring Mikeala Mayer, who had lost her super-featherweight crown last year but moved up to lightweight, where she is ranked #2. Her expected opponent had to bow out and one Lucy Wildheart, (#23) replaced her and took a beating but went the distance and lost a one-sided decision. Mayer will now look for a fight against the lightweight champion, Katie Taylor. Then came the feature bout between two large heavyweights with impressive knock-out records: #31 Zhilei Zhang, (6-6 278, 24-1-1 with 19 KO's), who had been beating up a series of smaller fighters until he lost a controversial decision to someone named Filip Hrgovic, faced #5 Joe "the Juggernaut" Joyce (6-6 258 15-0 with 14 kayos). Finally, the big Chinaman would face someone his own size - and higher-rated fighter too boot. He isn't higher rated any more, as Zhang proved much the better boxer with more movement, better defense and better combinations. Joyce plodded after him stiffly, eating straight lefts. He has a famous chin but now his right is famous and it closed shut and caused the stoppage of the fight in the 6th round. Joyce scored points with a steady barrage of jabs but didn't follow them up with anything and Zhang's face was unmarked. Now Zhang will become a mandatory challenger and could get a shot against Messer Fury or Usyk. They will be much tougher to beat than the stolid Joyce. [/QUOTE]

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