In a grudge match, IBF female bantamweight champion Ebanie “The Blonde Bomber” Bridges (9-1, 4 KOs) scored an eighth round TKO over Shannon O’Connell (23-7-1, 11 KOs) on Saturday night in the Warrington-Lopez co-feature at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, England. O’Connell got off to a good start in rounds one and two. Bridges, however, dropped O’Connell in round three and after that it was a one-sided beating until referee Howard Foster stopped the fight at 1:45 of round eight.
Unbeaten WBO #4, WBA #14, IBF #14 middleweight Felix Cash (16-0, 10 KOs) outscored Celso Nevez (9-3-2, 2 KOs) in workmanlike fashion over eight rounds. Referee’s score was 77-75.
Classless display of a sore loser after the fight by O’Cconnell and her corner who showed a complete lack of respect and humility in defeat and left the ring looking like a bunch of losers.
100% couldn’t agree more.
I got to see the great outfit she was wearing at the weigh-in, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to see her box.
Bad sport from Popgun who is almost as feminine as Cyborg
Female boxing still sucks! But they put on a great show at the weight in..
This was an excellent fight. Both women landed multiple clean shots and stood toe to toe throughout the match. Bridges was just relentless and proved to be the stronger of the two, backing up O’Connell against the ropes for most of the contest. Both had heart but Bridges’s was just bigger. A+