Terence Crawford reiterated his credentials as top-of-the-line fighters on this planet, as he knocked David Avanesyan out in spherical six to retain his WBO welterweight title on the CHI Well being Middle in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday.
Crawford (39-0, 30 KOs), preventing for the primary time since stopping Shawn Porter final November, got here into this one driving excessive within the pound-for-pound charts and with 9 straight knockout wins, though he had been discovering reserving a gathering with Errol Spence Jr fruitless, so needed to accept Avanesyan (29-4-1, 17 KOs), who arrived as European champion, and was on a run of six straight early wins.
Avanesyan started nicely, coming ahead and touchdown with overhand photographs that stored ‘Bud’ alert, and by the third, Crawford switched stances, and landed nicely to the physique.
For each success the challenger was having, the house favorite was paying him again, and within the fifth, the 35-year-old champion went from head to physique seamlessly.
The ending got here only a spherical later, and with Avanesyan working below a decent guard, an electrical left-right mixture went straight by from Crawford, and the 34-year-old Russian was out chilly.
Remaining Undercard
On the undercard, Arnold Khegai (19-1-1, 11 KOs) scraped previous former world title challenger, Eduardo Baez (21-4-2, 7 KOs) after ten rounds at featherweight by way of cut up resolution.
Mild heavyweight, Steven Nelson (18-0, 15 KOs) worn out James Ballard (10-5, 3 KOs) inside a spherical of their scheduled eight rounder, and Jose Lopez (4-2-1) upset Robert Rodriguez (10-2-2, 5 KOs) by majority verdict.
Javier Mayoral (5-2, 1 KO) prompted one other upset on the cardboard, taking a factors win in opposition to the beforehand undefeated Boubacar Sylla (12-1, 7 KOs).
MMA Star, Cris Cyborg (1-0) made her skilled boxing debut, and took a 4 spherical factors win at tremendous welterweight in opposition to Gabrielle Holloway (0-3).
Heavyweight hope Jeremiah Milton (8-0, 6 KOs) was taken six rounds, securing a call win in opposition to Dajuan Calloway (5-2, 5 KOs), and Edel Gomez (7-0-1, 7 KOs) stopped Joseph Aguilar (4-2-1, 2 KOs) within the second spherical of their six rounder at mild heavyweight.