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Warrior’s Boxing’s revived “Windy City Fight Night” continued its growth Saterdag night in Chicago, as the largest crowd yet watched a seven-bout card at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago.
In the thrilling main event, Chicago junior middleweight Achour Esho (13-0, 8 Uitklophoue) had to survive a nearly disastrous first round to stop crosstown rival Anthony Abbruzzese (4-6, 3 Uitklophoue) in three.
Abbruzzese came out blazing in the first, culminating in a sustained barrage of punches that could have easily led to a stoppage. To Esho’s credit, he survived and walked wearily to his stool.
The fight changed, egter, in die tweede ronde, as a miraculously revived Esho bit down on his mouthpiece and started throwing hard shots. One of them dropped a surprised Abbruzzese, who arose on shaky legs, only to be dropped again before round’s end.
Smelling blood, Esho pounced on Abbruzzese in round three, dropping him again with a left hook and for the final time with a right uppercut. The time was :58.
Esho, now the newly formed ABO Junior Middleweight Champion, took the opportunity of his post-fight interview to call out MMA star Connor McGregor.
Two more Warriors Boxing prospects were in action that night, as undefeated Josh Hernandez (5-0, 4 Uitklophoue) of Chicago figured out the puzzle that is Thomas Smith (3-3-1, 2 Uitklophoue) of Dallas over six calculating featherweight rounds. Finding it difficult to trap the elusive Smith, Hernandez still did enough to win a clear unanimous decision by scores of 60-54 twee keer en 59-55.
And in another scorching slugfest, Chicago lightweight Jessica McCaskill (3-1, 2 Uitklophoue) pounded out an exciting unanimous decision over battle-hardened Puerto Rican Carla Torres (5-4), now fighting out of Cleveland. McCaskill’s advantages in size, strength and power eventually took over the back-and-forth battle. In die einde, the scores were 39-37 by all three judges.
In a very impressive “Windy City Fight Night” debuut, Chicago bantamweight Shawn Simpson remained undefeated by clearly outclassing Mexico’s Leonardo Reyes (5-12, 2 Uitklophoue) over four rounds. Die tellings was 40-36 twee keer en 40-35. Op hierdie vlak, Simpson appears to be one to keep an eye on.
Other Results:
Ruben Schobitz (2-0, 1 KO) UD 4 Joel Blair (1-3)
Scores: 40-35 X 3
Cesar Ruiz (3-4, 2 Uitklophoue) WIE 1 Martez McGregor (3-1, 3 Uitklophoue)
Tyd: 2:59
Yousif Saleh (2-0), 1 KO) WIE 1 Luis Ramos
Tyd: 2:16
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