DAVID ADELEYE IS the brand new WBO European heavyweight champion following a powerful stoppage victory over Dymtro Bezus at York Corridor on Friday evening, with each Mark Chamberlain and Henry Turner retaining their IBF and WBC belts respectively.
The explosive Adeleye set concerning the Ukrainian from the primary bell, with the beforehand unbeaten Bezus floored with an enormous, straight left within the opening spherical and rocked by an uppercut simply earlier than the bell.
Bezus did rally within the second, however his revival proved to be short-lived as a howitzer of a chopping left hook ended his evening, with referee Bob Williams calling an finish to proceedings after 1.48 of the spherical and a bouncing York Corridor acknowledged a brand new champion.
Mark Chamberlain took his time to determine the risk posed by a tricky buyer in Vairo Lenti, with the Italian challenger having not beforehand suffered defeat through stoppage.
In the end, the Waterlooville warrior was the extra aggressive, however extra importantly, correct in his work and within the fifth around the jaw of Lenti was buckled by a hellacious left hook delivered by the 24-year-old, who strikes to 12-0 and nonetheless the proprietor of the IBF European light-weight title.
The official time of the knockout was 53 seconds of spherical 5. Marcus McDonnell officiated.
Henry Turner celebrated reaching double figures as knowledgeable with a 3rd stoppage victory in 4 fights over the Spaniard Zeus de Armas to retain his WBC Worldwide Silver tremendous light-weight title.
The 22-year-old is a highly-skilled operator who doesn’t depend on energy in any method, however he put his man down within the third spherical with a looping left and once more within the fourth courtesy of a proper hook to the physique.
Turner’s assault to the physique was to show decisive and in spherical seven referee Mark Lyson had seen sufficient when de Armas once more was put to the canvas and time was referred to as with 1.20 of the spherical accomplished.
Within the non-title fights, Chris Bourke received again within the groove after his unsuccessful tilt on the British tremendous bantamweight title final yr by dropping all the way down to bantamweight and returning in opposition to the damaging Darwin Martinez.
The file of Martinez is misleading. Whereas he has taken 10 losses, six of his seven wins have come through KO, so he clearly presents a risk. This was demonstrated within the first spherical when he rocked Bourke with an enormous proper and the Streatham man appeared disorientated throughout the primary three minutes after being out with damage for knocking on a yr.
The Peacock Health club pupil regrouped impressively from the beginning of spherical two and put his man down with a vicious left to the physique, repeating the trick an additional two instances in spherical three and referee Lee Each had seen sufficient after 2.53 of the spherical.
Blue Chip prospect Royston Barney-Smith once more confirmed his class in his fifth skilled battle in opposition to Lesther Lara. A proper hand straight to the physique accounted for the sometimes sturdy Nicaraguan and now the 19-year-old has three straight stoppages on his card, with the treble taking on lower than three minutes of motion.
At cruiserweight, Aloys Jr continued to shine and made quick work of the Czech Jiri Krejci. An assault to the physique folded Krejci after simply 38 seconds and the 19-year-old moved to 3-1 as a professional, with all three coming through stoppage.
Two six-rounders opened the evening, with 8-0 tremendous welterweight Carl Fail having fun with a shutout victory over Serge Ambomo and 8-0 tremendous bantamweight Adan Mohamed doing likewise in opposition to Francisco Rodriguez.
