The extremely hyped light-weight Abdullah Mason (16-0, 14 KOs) needed to get off the deck twice in spherical one to come back again to defeat Yohan Vasquez (26-5, 21 KO) by a second-round knockout within the undercard on Friday night time on the Scope Enviornment in Norfolk, Virginia.
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The 20-year-old Mason obtained sloppy in spherical one and dropped with a strong counter left hand from Vasquez. Mason was making an attempt to land an enormous left of his personal, and was broad open for the left counter. After that knockdown, Mason got here again to knock Vasquez down with a wonderfully positioned left uppercut.
Mason then went for the kill however was caught by one other left hook and put down. Fortunately for Abdullah, that knockdown got here within the last seconds of the spherical.
Within the second spherical, Mason harm Vasquez with a left hand within the opening seconds. Vasquez appeared to endure a proper leg damage with that punch and was limping afterward.
Mason took benefit of the damage by on the within and knocking Vasquez to the canvas with a left to the physique. Vasquez was too harm to beat the depend. The time of the stoppage was at 1:59 of spherical two.
Total, it was a superb efficiency by Mason, who confirmed a capability to remain calm regardless of being dropped twice. Many fighters would have come unglued mentally in the event that they’d been placed on the canvas the way in which Mason did. He stayed relaxed and continued to take the struggle to Vasquez.
The struggle was mainly over within the opening seconds of spherical two when Mason harm Vasquez with a left hand. Vasquez injured his left with that punch and he couldn’t generate any energy on his photographs from that time.
You’ve obtained to present Vasquez plenty of credit score, too. He had Mason’s sport all discovered and was touchdown his left hook when he’d throw. He’d clearly studied him effectively.
Even after Vasquez injured his left in spherical two, he got here inside inches of connecting with one other left hand which may have put Mason down for a 3rd time had it landed. Vasquez is a wonderful puncher, and rather a lot higher than many followers felt he was going into tonight’s contest.
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