Zelfa Barrett landed two brutal physique pictures on Jordan Gill, en path to an exhilarating victory.
Gill and Barrett met in a bumper home conflict on the AO Area in Manchester on Eddie Hearn‘s newest Matchroom Boxing invoice, with large stakes within the super-featherweight division.
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But it surely was Barrett who took the victory, folding Gill with two damaging left hooks to the physique within the tenth spherical earlier than the referee stepped in and halted the competition.
Manchester City and England star John Stones watched on from ringside after his facet’s 3-0 win over Luton Town.
And he would have been delighted with the spectacle that unfolded, with each fighters leaving no stone unturned.
The combat started at a great tempo with Gill taking centre ring, whereas his rival seemed to choose away from the skin in vigorous opening exchanges.
An intriguing battle continued to unfold within the second and third rounds, with Barrett touchdown two extraordinarily optimistic pictures, earlier than Gill responded to the top of the interval with a candy left hook.
‘The Flash’ had an excellent fourth stanza, ripping some large uppercuts into the midriff of Gill, however after briefly being harm he hit again nicely in a forwards and backwards encounter.
Issues continued at breakneck velocity with Gill exhibiting marking round his left eye within the fifth, and issues seemed very tight because the halfway level approached.
An analogous sample continued with a real chess match unfolding, however Gill seemed the marginally stronger because the enterprise finish of the competition approached.
Within the tenth spherical, Barrett’s persistent physique work folded Gill in half who crumpled to the canvas in a turning level within the combat.
Gill was in a position to climb again to his ft and resiliently battle again with pictures of his personal, however he went down once more with one other booming left hook to the physique.
Gill had been used to defying the percentages, given he dispatched of Irish star Michael Conlan in his final outing in December 2023.
However he was unable to beat the damaging physique work regardless of climbing to his ft, because the referee spared him any extra punishment.
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