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Stevie McKenna, the California-based Irishman, did a quick job with Gary McGuire, stopping him within just 73 seconds of the first of a scheduled six-round welterweight bout in the off-the-card fights on Bill Samir. Ziani-Alex Dilmaghani in Yorkshire.
The 23-year-old Irishman won his first three professional bouts in the United States and McGuire, a Scotsman who had only won once in 17 previous bouts, was never likely to prove it too much.
In fact, the biggest risk was that McKenna would be disqualified, as an early knockdown was followed by a blatant shot to the floor, which saw referee John Latham stop the action and issue a stern warning.
Straight from the opening bell, McKenna had caught McGuire in a corner and started unloading, continuing when the Scotsman fell to the ground.
It wasn’t long after the restart that McGuire ended up again after getting caught in the corner, and the last turn to the right caught him as he fell. On getting up, McKenna dropped him with a long left hook. He beat the account, but McGuire’s corner had already thrown in the towel and referee Latham rejected it.
Michael Hennessy Jr, promoter Mick’s baby-faced 20-year-old son, lost his undefeated record when he was beaten on points in a six-round middleweight with Jamie Stewart.
Stewart, who was having his second professional fight after winning his debut 12 months ago, outscored Hennessy for much of the fight. Sometimes Hennessy dominated, but he was also too static and too easy to hit. Mark Lyson, the referee, scored 58-56 for Stewart.
The first round was close, but Stewart’s work pace gave him the second as Hennessy lacked any real authority behind the jab. Still, he did better in the third, pushing Stewart back against the ropes and opening up.
The 27-year-old Stewart, who did nine stretches in prison before boxing helped straighten his life, had a good fourth round, as Hennessy fell back, but Hennessy accelerated in the fifth, folding his left hand and landing well with his. . above right.
But Stewart came back well again in the sixth, catching Hennessy as he walked forward, but Hennessy finished well, landing clean with a good right cross near the end.
Former Love Island contestant Idris Virgo had too much power for Scott Williams, though try as he might, he couldn’t force a stoppage at his four-round light heavyweight.
Virgo hurt Williams in the first minute of the first round with a brutal left hook to the body, causing Williams to trip over the ring and land clean with a right uppercut.
Williams had lost all seven of his previous professional bouts, so it was strange that Virgo (now 7-0-1) felt the need to stick a needle spraying Williams with water at the weigh-in.
What it meant was that Williams wasn’t going to give Virgo the satisfaction of knocking him down. He absorbed another weight from the body in the second, but never stopped trying to defend himself, despite being at the end of a constant stream of abuse during the final two rounds. Referee John Latham scored it 40-36 for Virgo.
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