Round-by-Round: Deontay Wilder vs. Dominic Breazeale - May 18, 2019

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Premier Boxing Champions presents: Deontay Wilder vs. Dominic Breazeale for the WBC heavyweight championship of the world.
Live from the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, New York on May 18, 2019
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Live on Showtime: 6:00pm (pacific); 8:00pm (central); 10:00pm (atlantic)
Live Streaming Undercard on Social Media Platforms: 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT.
Sky Sports Main Event / Action: 2am (UK time)
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Full Card

WBC World Heavyweight Title
Deontay Wilder vs. Dominic Breazeale

WBC World Featherweight Title
Gary Russell Jr vs. Kiko Martinez

10 Round Lightweight contest
Juan Heraldez vs. Argenis Mendez

10 Round Heavyweight contest
Robert Alfonso vs. Iago Kiladze

8 Round Bantamweight contest
Gary Antonio Russell vs. Saul Eduardo Hernandez

8 Round Super Lightweight contest
Gary Antuanne Russell vs. Marcos Mojica

6 Round Super Lightweight contest
Kenny Robles vs. Roy McGill

6 Round Super Flyweight contest
Dylan Price vs. Manuel Salvador Manzo

8 Round Super Lightweight contest
Richardson Hitchins vs. Alejandro Munera
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[oogiebe]

Thanks, but I don't think I'll bother scoring this one.

[skanksta]

Just in case Gary Russell (senior) is reading this.....

[oogiebe]

Just in case Gary Russell (senior) is reading this.....

Brilliant!! Parent's had a lack of creativity much like George Foreman!

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Three rounds were all Alejandro Munera’s trainer needed to see Saturday night.

Junior welterweight prospect Richardson Hitchins spent essentially nine minutes battering Munera on the Deontay Wilder-Dominic Breazeale undercard at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Hitchins couldn’t miss Munera with his right hand and looked like he would score a knockout late in the first round.

Munera managed to withstand that assault. The Colombian boxer exhibited toughness in the following two rounds, yet little else as the sharp, strong Hitchins landed an array of straight right hands and left hooks.

Munera’s trainer decided to stop the scheduled eight-rounder after the third round.

[oogiebe]

Three rounds were all Alejandro Munera’s trainer needed to see Saturday night.

Junior welterweight prospect Richardson Hitchins spent essentially nine minutes battering Munera on the Deontay Wilder-Dominic Breazeale undercard at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Hitchins couldn’t miss Munera with his right hand and looked like he would score a knockout late in the first round.

Munera managed to withstand that assault. The Colombian boxer exhibited toughness in the following two rounds, yet little else as the sharp, strong Hitchins landed an array of straight right hands and left hooks.

Munera’s trainer decided to stop the scheduled eight-rounder after the third round.

Hitchins showed a lot of variety in that beatdown.

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Brooklyn’s Hitchins, 21, moved to 9-0 and recorded his fifth knockout. Munera, 29, slipped to 4-2-3.

In the bout before Hitchins’ win, Dylan Price bounced back from the worst of his first eight pro performances.

Price, a bantamweight from Sicklerville, New Jersey, stopped Mexico’s Manuel Manzo in the fifth round of their scheduled six-rounder. The 20-year-old Price (8-0, 6 KOs) completely controlled the action until Manzo’s trainer threw in the towel.

When the fight was stopped, Price, a fast-handed southpaw, was landing hard shots to Manzo’s head as they stood in the center of the ring. Manzo (4-7-2, 2 KOs) disagreed with his trainer’s decision to halt the action at 1:34 of the fifth round.

Price remains unbeaten because the result of his last fight, a six-round, split-decision defeat to Pedro Rodriguez, was changed to a no-contest. Mexico’s Rodriguez (14-23-3, 6 KOs, 1 NC) won that fight on two scorecards January 17 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, but he failed an undisclosed post-fight test.

Earlier Saturday night, bantamweight prospect Gary Antonio Russell remained unbeaten by stopping Saul Hernandez in the sixth round of a bout scheduled for eight rounds.

A hard, accidental clash of heads during the sixth round caused Hernandez to fall the canvas. The Mexican veteran was so disoriented by the head-butt, he couldn’t continue.

The fight was stopped at 2:38 of the sixth round.

The 26-year-old Russell, a younger brother of WBC featherweight champ Gary Russell Jr., improved to 14-0 and produced his 12th knockout. The 23-year-old Hernandez (13-13-1, 8 KOs) lost by technical knockout for the fourth time in his seven-year pro career.

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[oogiebe]

Gary Antuanne Russell is a nice fighter. Crisp; good movement; some pop...nice.

[oogiebe]

Watching Robert Alfonso (HW). I can't help but think that he'd be good fodder for the prospects like Efe; Makhmudov; etc.

[brilo33]

kiko Martinez tough lad , would of thought that would be a good fight

[Elpidiphor]

Watching Robert Alfonso (HW). I can't help but think that he'd be good fodder for the prospects like Efe; Makhmudov; etc.

Agree, Despite of being Cuban and Olympian Alfonso never looked like a real prospect with a potential to crack top 10.

[oogiebe]

Agree, Despite of being Cuban and Olympian Alfonso never looked like a real prospect with a potential to crack top 10.

And he may still lose this fight!

[oogiebe]

kiko Martinez tough lad , would of thought that would be a good fight

I sure hope it is.

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[Elpidiphor]

I have no possibility to watch Alfonso vs Kiladze but not be surprising if lunky Georgian (who is chinny, but quick and skilled fighter) will score upset tonight.

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[oogiebe]

I have no possibility to watch Alfonso vs Kiladze bu not be surprising if lunky Georgian (who is chinny, but quick and skilled fighter) will score upset tonight.

It's close enough that I call it a coin flip. I have to admit that my thoughts started to drift off halfway into the fight, but Kiladze looked way better than I had imagined.

[Elpidiphor]

Gary Antuanne Russell is a nice fighter. Crisp; good movement; some pop...nice.

Did he won inside the distance?

[oogiebe]

Alfonso vs Kilidze
Split Draw

[jamamb]

usually when a guy loses the fight the first time at like 40 years old he isnt better for a rematch. too bad that ortizs team rejected that great aj offer

[oogiebe]

Did he won inside the distance?

Yeah. KO 4

[jamamb]

i remember alfonso getting brutally ktfo by cammarelle in the ams

[oogiebe]

i remember alfonso getting brutally ktfo by cammarelle in the ams

I wouldn't doubt it. He looks like a sparring partner in the ring.