Matt Korobov vs. Anthony Bartinelli

Matvey Korobov 162 lbs beat Anthony Bartinelli 161 lbs by TKO at 2:15 in round 2 of 4

• Date: 2009-05-02
• Location: MGM Grand, Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• Referee: Robert Byrd

In a four round Super Middleweight preliminary bout on the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton HBO pay-per-view fight card held at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, Matt Korobov, a Russian out of Lantana, Florida, scored a second round TKO over Anthony Bartinelli of Phoenix, Arizona.

Korobov, 5-0 with five kayos, knocked out the mouthpiece of Bartinelli with a counter right over a Bartinelli left in round one. In round two, Korobov decked Bartinelli with a left hook. Bartinelli beat the count, but with Korobov landing overhand lefts and rights to the head and Bartinelli helpless in his own corner, the referee wisely stopped the bout at 2:15 of round two. Power punch stats told the story in this bout. The hard-punching Korobov landed 57, while Bartinelli, now 20-13-2 with 13 kayos, landed only one, so the outcome was never in doubt.