Unbeaten WBO #6, WBA #10, IBF #14 heavyweight Moses Itauma (11-0, 9 KOs) impressively destroyed Demsey McKean (22-2, 14 KOs) in the first round in the Usyk-Fury co-feature on Saturday night at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 19-year-old Itauma dropped McKean twice in round one before the bout was stopped. Time was 1:57.
In what was billed as a final WBC super welterweight eliminator, former WBC 154-pound interim titleholder and current WBC #2 Serhii Bohachuk (25-2, 24 KOs) defeated late sub Ishmael Davis (13-2, 6 KOs) by sixth round TKO. Bohachuk dropped Davis in round two with a short left hook. Bohachuk continued to punish Davis until Davis’ corner pulled their man out after round six
Unbeaten WBO #13 rated Johnny “The Romford Bull” Fisher (13-0, 11 KOs) won a controversial ten round split decision over David “White Rhino” Allen (23-7, 18 KOs). Fisher won the first four rounds, but Allen dropped Fisher in round five, then battered him for two minutes. Allen rocked Fisher again in round six. Both landed big shots after that with Allen clearly doing more damage. Scores were 95-94, 95-94 Fisher, 96-93 Allen.
Featherweight Lee McGregor (15-1-1, 11 KOs) won a ten round unanimous decision over Team Fury member Isaac Lowe (25-3-3, 8 KOs). Scores were 96-92, 97-91, 97-91. Lowe deducted a point for continually losing his mouthpiece.
Former Olympian super featherweight Peter McGrail (11-1, 6 KOs) scored a narrow ten round unanimous decision against previously undefeated WBA #13 Rhys Edwards (16-1, 4 KOs). McGrail fought most the bout with blood streaming from over his right eye. Edwards, a late sub, gave McGrail all he could handle, but came up short 96-95, 96-94, 96-94.
In a clash between unbeaten light heavyweights, WBA #11 Daniel Lapin (11-0, 4 KOs) scored a one-sided ten round unanimous decision over Dylan Colin (14-1, 4 KOs). Scores were 100-90, 99-91, 99-91. The IBF international and WBA continental belts were on the line.
Unbeaten heavyweight Andrii Novytskyi (14-0, 10 KOs) outpointed Edgar Ramirez (10-2-1, 4 KOs) over ten workmanlike rounds. Scores were 100-90, 100-90, 98-92. Novytskyi retains his WBC International belt.
Bantamweight Muhammad Alakel (2-0, 0 KOs) shut out Joshua Ocampo (8-34-5, 6 KOs) over six rounds.
Joshua Ocampo doesn’t have a win in his last 35 fights, just two draws ( opponents with Covid)
This is kind of a shitty undercard for a Riyadh event. Usually Turki does it Don King style where he laces up the undercard with world title fights, or at least fights you’d want to see.
The Allen-Fisher fight was the only one I was interested in – and then the crooked judges ruined it.
Absurd decision. I had Allen down big early, but was battering Fisher pillar to post after about round 5.
I guess the lesson to be learned is not to give up early rounds because you never know what the judges are up to. I had it 6-4 in rounds + knockdown. 96-93
The usual for crooked boxing – the judgettes robbed Allen and gave it to Fisher. Portends badly for the main event.
What a total BS crooked decision. Allen won that fight, Fisher lost. Terrible ref and two shady judges.
The surprise was that one of the 3 judges was honest. That’s a much higher percentage that you usually get in boxing.
Now what kind of monkey business do the crooks have planned for the main event?
This robbery was so blatant it should be protested.
I’m talking about Allen-Fisher. I’m sure there’s more to come.
Moses quick demolition of a fighter that suppose to be his toughest challenge, foretell what Moses will achieve in boxing
Except anyone who’s seen Demsey McKean fight before knows he isn’t any good. Itauma looks good fighting at this level, but we’ll have to wait until he fights someone halfway decent to know if he’s the real deal or not.
Moses Itauma is 11-0 not 23-0. Who’s the retard posting the wrong record?
They looked and took his amateur record
That “retard” is probably a human being like you or me. A person who can make a mistake every now and then and still deserves to be treated with respect.
Come on Fury revenge
Time to hang up the gloves for Dempsey McKean….two loses in a row against quality opposition.
Too many fighters fast tracked to a ranking only to be found out once they actually meet quality
Correction Itauma record…
I had Bohachuck by KO too. After the fight he gave Ortiz there was no doubt in my mind.
Johnny Fisher is a fraud. David Allen was robbed.
Oliver Brien & John Latham need to be punished.
Demsey McKean was 22-1-14ko and some of the names were reasonable. In this fight’ he was bouncing around like a piss poor balanced 10 year old transgender they / them, he / she that had just walked into a PCYC Boxing club ffs
Boxing is not what it once was clearly
Bohachuk took are of business.
I truly hope Ortiz, Jr. and Bohachuk have another scrap. I loved the first fight because it did not involve weight bullying on fight night.
Will Ortiz, Jr. give Bohachuk another chance for glory or will he avoid Bohachuk because their physical sizes are very fair?