Terri Harper and Kid Galahad’s globe championship reigns had been significantly ended by a pair of knockout defeats on Saturday night in Sheffield.
Harper dropped her WBC super-featherweight title to Alycia Baumgardner right before Galahad was crushed for his IBF featherweight title by Kiko Martinez.
Harper had appeared slower than her opponent from the opening bell and Baumgardner gave her a warning of what was to occur with some early, sharp punches.
Harper was clocked by a major ideal hand in the fourth round
In the second spherical Harper was hurt, and the fight was ended in a flash in the fourth spherical.
Baumgardner landed a flush proper hand and Harper was out on her ft – the referee jumped in to rescue her.
It was the very first loss of Harper’s 13-battle job.
Harper was beaten for the to start with time
Baumgardner joins fellow American Mikaela Mayer as a titleholder in the super-featherweight division. Mayer unified the IBF and WBO belts final weekend. Hyun Mi Choi retains the WBA.
Galahad’s reign as winner, which only began 3 months in the past, was slash limited in a main upset.
Kid Galahad was knocked out by Kiko Martinez
Martinez, a former world champion who is now 35, dropped him with an overhand correct in the final seconds of the fifth round. The bell for the conclusion of the round gave Galahad a timely reprieve.
But Martinez then smashed him with an additional suitable hand, seconds into the sixth spherical, knocking him out.
Martinez grew to become a two-fat earth champion in the course of action.
Child Galahad’s entire world title reign was just three months
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Caroline Dubois skilled debut
Florian Marku vs Jorick Luisetto
Hosea Burton vs Dan Azeez – British light-weight-heavyweight title
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November 20 – Major Rank in Las Vegas
Terence Crawford vs Shawn Porter – WBO welterweight title
December 11 – BOXXER in Cardiff
Chris Eubank Jr vs Liam Williams
Claressa Shields vs Ema Kozin
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