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JOHN RIEL Casimero of the Philippines garnered attention on his American television debut, scoring a brutal third-round stoppage by Duke Micah of Ghana to retain his WBO bantamweight championship Sunday morning.
The 31-year-old Casimero dropped previously undefeated Micah in the second round with a left hook before stopping him for good in the third round of one of the title fights at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut.
The impressive TKO victory put a happy ending to a seven-month stay in the US for Casimero, who headed overseas to prepare for a mega fight against Japan’s ‘Monster’ Inoue de Naoya only to see it postponed. a couple of times before being archived. good.
To celebrate, and as if to show he barely broke a sweat in the TKO victory, Casimero did six one-handed push-ups in the ring to the delight of the crowd.
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Casimero’s first order of business after the victory was to call Inoue.
“I’m the real monster. Naoya Inoue is scared of me. You’re next. Today I would have knocked out anyone,” Casimero told CBS Sports. “If Inoue doesn’t fight me, then I’ll fight Guillermo Rigondeaux, Luis Nery or any of the best fighters.”
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According to Compubox, Casimero landed 52 percent of his power shots to completely outnumber Micah, who had only 59 landed shots.
He was at his best in the third round, knocking Micah down with a couple of body shots before a pair of uppercuts sent Micah staggering into a corner, forcing referee Steve Willis to jump up and stop the fight.
