SANTA MONICA — Queensberry Promotions founder Frank Warren is exhibiting he nonetheless has an eye fixed for expertise as his firm’s latest signing, Nathan Lugo, scored a nasty second-round stoppage win Wednesday on Santa Monica’s pier in Los Angeles County, California.
After strolling to the ring dressed as Deadpool, Lugo’s tremendous middleweight combat towards Ray Corona was the first-ever Riyadh Season occasion in america, and the 20-year-old made it one to recollect because the opening spherical was painful, bruising, and bloody.
Lugo threw most of his photographs with unhealthy intentions from his stocky body, hammered Corona with six-punch mixtures, and despatched him again to his nook on the finish of the spherical bleeding from his mouth and nostril.
With a thudding jab that he rammed into Corona’s jaw, brutal physique photographs that his opponent will really feel for days to come back, and clubbing photographs to the top, Lugo appeared eager to shut the present early — but, that exuberance got here at a slight value, as he’d depart himself open to counter photographs, despite the fact that he comfortably received the opener.
Corona tried to combat his approach out of bother by beginning the second spherical exhausting and quick however did not preserve a guard that was robust sufficient to dam Lugo’s greatest photographs.
As a substitute, Lugo punched his approach between Corona’s gloves, stored cracking him with hooks, and, after continued stress, one exhausting proper hand in a three-punch sequence was sufficient for referee Rudy Barragan to wave the competition off for good. It was over.
“Nice stoppage win by Nathan Lugo,” mentioned Warren on X, the social media website previously often called Twitter. “Stay up for watching him develop!”
Elsewhere on the three-fight card which Boxing Information attended midweek, was Shakhram Giyasov’s break up determination win over Miguel Parra, and Marc Castro’s victory towards George Acosta through technical determination.
The fights aired without cost on Matchroom Boxing and DAZN’s YouTube channels.
