Nikolay Potapov Outpoints Antonio Nieves, Wesley Tucker Defeats Ed Williams & 小约书亚·格里尔. Knocks Out James Gordon-Smith On ShoBox: The New Generation From MGM Grand Detroit

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底特律 (三月 11, 2017) – Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Claressa Shields shined in her television debut, knocking out the durable Szilvia Szabados in the fourth round (1:30) to advance to 2-0 as a professional in the main event on 的ShoBox: 新一代 星期五 on SHOWTIME at MGM Grand Detroit.

希尔兹 (2-0, 1 科斯) put on a show less than an hour from her hometown of Flint, 密歇根州。, landing nearly 50 percent of her power shots in the first women’s boxing main event in premium television history.

Szabados (15-9, 6 科斯), 匈牙利的, didn’t touch the canvas but never really stood a shot against an opponent that has been billed as the future of women’s boxing. Shields came out blazing in the opening round, backing up Szabados with crisp, clean punches as she out-landed her opponent 31-4 在第一个.

Shields was a bit more patient and settled in the second and third, but the onslaught continued against a relatively defenseless Szabados. After a flush right hand, left hook combo in the fourth, referee Harvey Dock had seen enough and stepped in to halt the contest with Szabados still on her feet.

“It was about respect,” Shields said of her performance. “I wanted to go out there and show I had power and I wasn’t scared of her. I knew she was tough coming in. That’s why I started going to the body. I was going to get the clean shot in one round and she was going to go, but the ref stopped it in the fourth. A knock out is a knockout. It was exciting.

“I’m glad everyone came. I took advantage of this great opportunity once again. It’s another step toward winning a world title.”

Szabados said she was disappointed with Dock’s decision to stop the fight when he did. “I’m very sad and heartbroken right now because it only went four rounds and I could have kept going,“ 她说. “Her hits were not painful. Her right hook got me a lot, 我知道. I could feel that one.”

在 的ShoBox 共同特征, Nikolay Potapov narrowly edged Antonio Nieves in a close, 10-round split decision scored 96-94 Potapov twice, 96-94 Nieves.

The technical match between undefeated top-10 bantamweight prospects was close from the opening bell. Nieves was the more active fighter, 着陆 64 punches per round to Potapov’s 50, but the round-by-round breakdowns reveal that Potapov prevailed in total connects as well as in landed power shots.

“我认为这是一场势均力敌的战斗, but I came on strong at the end,” Potapov said. “I had more and finished stronger. That made the difference. I am much more aggressive now and I sit down on my shots. That’s the difference training at Kronk has done for me.

“我知道我赢得了这场战斗. I wasn’t surprised when I got it. I wasn’t happy about the judging in my last big fight, but I thought this time I had done more than enough to win.”

Nieves did impressive work to the body, 连接上 59 total body shots compared to just 14 for Potapov, but it wasn’t enough to earn him the decision.

“我以为我赢了. I thought it was a bad decision,” Nieves said. “I don’t even think it should have been a spilt decision. I thought I was up clearly. He didn’t really score like he wanted to. I was making him miss and landing all the sharper punches. Everything he was hitting me with I was blocking and coming back.

“I don’t know why close fights don’t go my way. From here I go back to the drawing board. My whole team and a lot of the crowd felt like I won. I would love to fight him again.”

In a featured matchup between undefeated welterweights, Wesley Tucker (14-0, 8 科斯) edged Ed Williams in an eight-round unanimous decision scored 77-73, 79-71, 78-72 塔克.

The foul-filled fight featured little action. Toledo’s Tucker landed 31 ％的他的力量，投篮的比例仅为 19 percent for Detroit’s Williams (12-2-1, 4 科斯), who was deducted two points for hitting to the back of the head on separate occasions. 塔克 (14-0, 8 科斯) didn’t land a jab the entire fight, but his heavier shots and accuracy with his power shots seemed to be more impressive to the judges.

“He was an awkward, long fighter, who knew how to move very well,” Tucker said. “I’m not disappointed it turned out like that. Not every fight can be pretty, so I came out with the win and that’s what matters most.

“I was really frustrated in there, but I’m an action kind of fighter, so when he was running it kind of was pissing me off. He was all over the place. He ran the whole fight.”

Williams landed only 17 他的总拳％的.

“He didn’t show me anything I didn’t expect,”威廉姆斯说. “This week was a great experience for me, but you want to come out with a win and I wasn’t able to get it done.”

在揭幕战电视, 小约书亚·格里尔. handed bantamweight prospect James Gordon-Smith his firstloss with a brutal one-punch sixth-round knockout (2:06).

After a blazing first round that saw over 50 power shots landed, Greer pepped his opponent with a steady diet of counter rights as Gordon-Smith continued to charge forward and fight largely off-balance. Chicago’s Greer floored Gordon-Smith with a perfectly timed right uppercut in the opening seconds of the fifth and, despite looking dazed, Gordon-Smith rallied to survive the back-and-forth round.

In the sixth, Greer (12-1-1, 5 科斯) knocked Gordon-Smith out cold with a huge straight right that sent the Detroit native falling face forward as referee Harvey Dock immediately waved off the bout.

“I guess he blinked. That was the problem,” Greer said. “I told everyone when I got here I didn’t have that pillow for no reason. I said don’t blink and I wasn’t playing. I knew I was going to get him. The pillow is just my trademark. 这没什么个人. You have to stand out somehow. That’s just what I do. Nothing personal to him.

“I knew what I came to do. I’m excited but I’m not shocked. My team knew what would happen and they had confidence in me. I knew it was only a matter of time.”

Gordon-Smith (11-1, 6 科斯) 是 160^日 战斗机在前景发展系列赛中遭受第一次失败. And Nieves would later become the 161^ST.

周五 quadrupleheader将重播 星期二, 三月 14 在 10 P.M. AND/PT在Showtime EXTREME. The telecast will also be available on SHOWTIME on DEMAND^® 和SHOWTIME ANYTIME^®.

“Detroit City Gold,” was promoted by Salita Promotions.

巴里·汤普金斯称 的ShoBox 从马戏团的动作与史蒂夫Farhood和前世界冠军劳尔·马尔克斯作为专家分析. 执行制片人是高登·霍尔（Gordon Hall），里奇·高恩（Rich Gaughan）出演，里克·菲利普斯（Rick Phillips）执导.

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