Several entertaining fights highlighted the untelevised undercard for two-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields defense of her WBC and IBF titles against mandatory challenger Tori Nelson at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York tonight.

In the main supporting bout, Detroit via Kurchaloi, Russja, heavyweight Apti Davtaev had a successful United States fighting debut by scoring a six-round unanimous decision over Philadelphia’s Garrett “L-Warrior Ultimate” Wilson.

Wilson didn’t make it easy. Fighting out of a crouch, the heavily muscled, but much shorter Wilson came up with enough wild haymakers to make the entire fight very interesting. Davtaev appears to have a heavy right hand, which he dropped onto the hard head of Wilson often enough to earn the close, but deserved nod. Davtaev warrants credit for going to war whenever one of Wilson’s looping swings connected.

Davtaev (issa 14-0-1, 13 Kos) loses his perfect KO percentage, but walks away with a hard-fought victory over a foe who came to win. Wilson is now (18-14-1, 9 Kos).

Il-punteġġi kienu 58-56 from all three judges.

L headbutt aċċidentali ġab fi tmiemha mqassra għar-ritorn ta 'sitt rawnd super ħfief tal Aktjubinsk, Kazakhstan’s Bakhtiyar Eyubov.

Fil kontra Lynchburg, Virginia’s Maurice Chalmers (14-13-1, 8 Kos), l Slugger eċċitanti Eyubov (13-0, 11 Kos) kien avvanz wara moviment ras attiva u qoxra stretta meta kap tiegħu ħabat mal-Chalmers jirtiraw ". The cut that resulted was ruled too severe and the fight was ruled a No Decision at 1:59 tar-rawnd ftuħ.

Fi nisa selvaġġi taċ Brawl ikkaratterizzata fists heavyweight dawl jtajru minn kull direzzjoni, lotta istivi u diversi takedowns MMA-istil, Franchon “Il Laqtu Diva tqal” Ekwipaġġi-Dezurn rebaħ unanima deċiżjoni sitt rawnd fuq Tiffany “il Terminator” Woodard.

Ekwipaġġi-Dezurn, issa 3-1, 1 KO, ta 'Baltimore, Maryland, kellhom armi wisq għall Wilson, North Carolina’s Woodard (issa 4-10-3, 3 Kos), hekk Woodard ippruvati u rnexxielhom li jagħmlu l-affarijiet ikrah. Liema segwita kien selvaġġi punch-out jidhru minkbejn u headlocks u takedowns li ħallew kemm fuq il-kanvas aktar minn darba.

Woodard took a lot of hard leather and deserves credit for her toughness. Crews-Dezurn showed class in not taking the bait for most of the fight. She did lose a point in the sixth for a sneaky revenge takedown.

Il-punteġġi kienu 59-53, 59-54 u 59-54.

Detroit via Magnitogorsk, Russia’s Alexey Zubov outworked a determined Lamont “Wisq Smooth” Capers of Hawley, Pennsylvania, on his way to a six-round majority decision.

An entertaining fight between hard-nosed cruiserweights, Zubov was cut over the right eye and took some good punches, but simply outworked the more selective Capers. Zubov wera kondizzjonata spiss superjuri tiegħu u ħadmu wara l jab edukati, filwaqt Kappar kien kontenut li jiġu fuq l-ħbula u l-art shots pot diffiċli spiss biżżejjed biex jżommha interessanti.

Punteġġ ta ' 57-57 tiġbed kien over-eskluża mill-punteġġi 59-56 u 58-56 għall-Russu iebsa. Bl-rebħa, Zubov jiċċaqlaq rekord tiegħu li 17-1, 9 Kos. Kappar taqa 'għal 8-11-3.