Olympic and current IBO World Super Middleweight champion Cuban southpaw Osleysl ‘El Tornado’ Iglesias of Germany retained his title by stopping Germany-based Ukrainian Petro Ivanov in five rounds, scoring a knockout and taking it Thursday night at the Montreal Casino , Montreal to terminate. , Quebec, Canada.
(Credit: Vincent Ethier)
In the main event, 2021 Olympian Iglesias (13-0, 12 KOs) stopped Petro Ivanov (18-1-2, 13 KOs) at 0:40 of the fifth round of a scheduled 12-rounder.
In the first two rounds, it was all Iglesias driving Ivanov around the ring. In the third round, Iglesias dominated by drawing blood from the nose of Ivanov with left uppercuts to the chin.
In the fourth round, Ivanov landed his first solid blow, an overhand right on the chin of Iglesias. From that point on, Iglesias dominated again.
In the fifth round, doubled up on his jab, Iglesias landed a right uppercut followed by a left on the chin and down Ivanov for an 8 count from referee Junior Padulo. Upon standing up, the fight was over.
Two-time world challenger Super Middle Steven ‘Bang Bang’ Butler (35-5-1, 29 KOs) stopped Fernando ‘Manzana’ Farias (12-3-3, 4 KOs) at 2:36 of the first round of a scheduled ten rounds.
In the first round, Butler continued to attack until the final minute, landing a right to the chin, dropping Farias for an 8 count from referee Martin Forest, who waved it off as Farias stood up. have.
Light heavyweight Wilkens Mathieu (12-0, 8 KOs) stopped Marcos ‘El Comandante’ Karalitzky (8-10-2, 2 KOs) at 3:00 of the fourth round of a scheduled eight rounds, scoring a knockout just before the end of the round.
In the first round it was all Mathieu with mostly body shots. In the second round, Mathieu continued to look for the knockout as Karalitzky would stay inside, not giving him many punches other than lefts and upper rights to the body.
Karalitzky’s face showed abrasions under his left eye on the cheekbone in the third round. In the fourth round’s first minute, Mathieu landed a flurry of punches and had Karalitzky on the ropes.
In the final minute, a left from Mathieu drew blood from Karalitzky’s nose. Then, seconds later, he dropped him with a left hook to the body for an 8 count from referee Junior Padulo as Karalitzky’s corner called for a stop.
Lightweight 2021 Olympian Dzmitri ‘The Wasp’ Asanau (9-0, 4, KOs) stopped Matias Rueda (38-3, 32 KOs) at 2:58 of the fifth round of a scheduled ten rounder for the vacant WBC Continental Americas- title stopped.
In the first round it was increasingly Asanau who used a solid jab and landing combination that always came forward. With half a minute left (a year inactive) Rueda rocked Asanau with a right. As Asanau came off the ropes, he landed a right on the chin.
Midway through the second round, while on the defensive, Asanau landed a left hook to the chin, with Rueda nearly down, and held until the final minute. He opened a cut on Rueda’s left eyebrow with his right hand.
In the third round, it was all Asanau on offense as blood poured down the face from Rueda’s cut left eyebrow. In the fourth round it was all Asanau. At the fifth round’s halfway point, a dozen unanswered punches from Asanau with no return and both eyebrows bleeding Asanau knocked him down, causing referee Alain Villeneuve to wisely stop.
Light Welterweight Jhon ‘El Tigre’ Orobio (12-0, 11 KOs) stopped Jacopo ‘The Swing Boy’ Colli (9-0-1, 4 KOs) at 1:12 of the first round a pair of knockouts from a scheduled eight rounds.
Thirty seconds into the first round, right from Orobio to the side of Colli’s head, he went for an 8 count from referee Martin Forest. Seconds later, an overhand right followed by a left on the chin and down, Colli went a second time for an 8 count from Referee Forest, who wisely waved it off after looking into Colli’s eyes .
The Ring Announcer was Patrick Lono.
