Shurretta Metcalf (left) stares down IBF bantamweight titlist Miyo Yoshida forward of theor Oct. 23 rematch in New York Metropolis. Picture credit score: Ed Diller, DiBella Leisure
Shurretta Metcalf proved Wednesday evening that she nonetheless has Miyo Yoshida’s quantity, successful a unanimous resolution at The Theater at Madison Sq. Backyard to elevate the IBF bantamweight title.
All three judges had the combat in favor of the 39-year-old from Dallas, Texas by the scores of 99-91, 96-94 and 97-93.
Not like of their first bout final November, the place Metcalf simply outboxed Yoshida, additionally in New York Metropolis, this combat was a give-and-take affair with each feeling they’d executed sufficient to win on the ultimate bell. In the long run, it was the constant jab and counterpunching of the taller Metcalf (14-4-1, 2 knockouts) that the judges most well-liked, incomes her her first world title.
Yoshida (17-5), a New York resident who’s initially from Kagoshima, Japan, sees her third world title reign finish in her first protection.
“Man I’ve been ready to listen to that for years,” mentioned an overwhelmed Metcalf, who turns 40 subsequent Monday.
“That is undoubtedly my birthday reward. That is my reward to my metropolis Dallas.”
Metcalf appeared to hold over loads of confidence from their first bout as she jabbed from distance and landed overhand rights as Yoshida pressed ahead. Regardless of their four-inch peak disparity, the 5’3″ 1/2 Yoshida landed finest along with her counter jabs, as Metcalf had a behavior of holding her head on the middle line and pulling her chin up every time she jabbed.
A sample began appearing whereby Metcalf would begin the rounds strongly and Yoshida would end them stronger, often as a consequence of her overhand rights.
Metcalf turned up the warmth within the eighth and ninth rounds, making an attempt to stop a late spherical rally from the incumbent champion. Yoshida landed her finest punch of the combat with simply ten seconds left within the combat, as a pair of proper fingers appeared to harm Metcalf and push her into the ropes.
“I knew the primary combat I moved so much and that’s how I used to be combating her, I wasn’t placing that a lot energy. This time I needed to sit down down on my punches. I needed her to really feel me this time, I needed to return and make an announcement,” mentioned Metcalf.
The combat was simply one among two girls’s bantamweight title fights set for this week, as Dina Thorslund is ready to defend her WBC/WBO titles this Friday in Denmark towards Terumi Nuki.
Requested whom she would wish to combat subsequent, Metcalf acknowledged {that a} third combat with Yoshida may doubtlessly be within the playing cards if the cash was there for it.
The combat headlined a DiBella Leisure card which aired dwell on ProBox TV.
Mykquan Williams KOs Lavisas Williams in 8
Mykquan Williams (22-0-2, 11 KOs) made essentially the most of his ProBox publicity, knocking out Lavisas Williams (10-2-1, 3 KOs) halfway by means of the eighth and ultimate spherical of their junior welterweight bout.
Mykquan Williams, 26, of East Hartford, Conn. dominated all through, scoring two knockdowns within the opening spherical earlier than ending Lavisas Williams with a brief proper hand on the 1:32 mark, with referee Harvey Dock waving off the combat and not using a rely.
From the outset, Mykquan Williams appeared the sharper of the 2, touchdown proper fingers at will towards the 33-year-old from Rochester, N.Y. Mykquan Williams scored the primary knockdown shortly earlier than the top of the spherical as a straight proper hand adopted by an ungainly looping proper hand landed on the temple, placing Lavisas Williams down. Mykquan Williams dropped his opponent as soon as extra for granted hand only a second earlier than the bell put him down as soon as once more.
The win continued the momentum for Mykquan Williams, who has now gained three straight since his majority draw towards Paulo Cesar Galdino in June of 2023. Lavisas Williams loses for the primary time since his 2016 stoppage to O’Shaquie Foster, however was combating for simply the third time in eight yr.
Mykquan Williams, who’s rated within the prime 15 by the WBO and WBA at 140 kilos, declined to name out any future opponents, deferring as a substitute to his promoter Lou DiBella.
“Hey Lou, set them up. I’ll go away that as much as my crew and my promoter,” mentioned Williams.
Different outcomes
Jerry Forrest (28-6-2, 20 KOs) gained an eight spherical unanimous resolution over Earl Newman (10-4-1, 7 KOs) by the scores of 78-74 on two playing cards and 79-73 on the third. The loss is the fourth in a row for Newman whereas the win is the second straight for Forrest following his losses to Kubrat Pulev and Jared Anderson in 2022.
Konrad Kaczmarkiewicz (8-1-1, 3 KOs) of Szczecin, Poland defeated Khainell Wheeler (7-6, 6 KOs) by break up resolution, with two judges seeing it his method, 59-55, and a 3rd having it 58-56 for the Pennsylvania based mostly Wheeler. Kaczmarkiewicz, who was combating for the second straight time in New York, damage Wheeler within the second spherical with a proper hand-left hook combo, however discovered himself bleeding closely from the nostril as a consequence of an uppercut within the sixth and ultimate spherical.
Edward Vazquez (17-2, 4 KOs) of Fort Value, Texas scored his second straight win after Kenneth Taylor (14-4-2, 6 KOs) declined to proceed after the fourth spherical of their ten spherical scheduled junior light-weight bout. Vazquez, 29, appeared able to step again as much as the world stage after coming simply in need of successful a world title final November, when he misplaced a majority resolution to then IBF junior light-weight titleholder Joe Cordina.
