By: Sean Crose
IBF welterweight kingpin Jaron “Boots” Ennis defended his crown Saturday evening in a rematch in opposition to Karen Chukhadzhian, who he had beforehand defeated. Though Ennis was clearly the favourite strolling in, Chukhadzhian was his necessary opponent. Due to this fact, Ennis took on the Ukrainian contender in his hometown of Philadelphia. Being a defending champion has it’s benefits, in any case. Whereas he in the end earned a choice victory, Ennis discovered himself engaged in a battle of wills in opposition to his decided opponent all through the bout.
Chukhadzhian opened nicely, shifting concerning the ring successfully in an ungainly trend whereas touchdown at instances on the defending champion. Not that Ennis was being dominated. On the contrary. In reality the defending titlist was shifting about and firing nicely himself. He was merely in an actual battle for the primary 4 rounds of the bout. Ennis, nevertheless, chopped his man down like a tree within the fifth. Chukhadzhian acquired to his ft and Ennis moved in for the kill. To his credit score, the challenger was in a position to survive the spherical. By the sixth, Chukhadzhian was again in motion.
The fighters continued to sock away at one another because the battle labored its method previous the midpoint. Every man landed clear sufficient to let even essentially the most informal viewer know that he possessed an unimaginable chin. Within the tenth, referee Harvey Dock took some extent from Chukhadzhian for extreme holding. Credit score needed to be given to each guys within the twelfth and ultimate spherical, for these had been two professionals who had been actually giving all of it within the ring in a excessive octane, at instances sloppy, totally entertaining bout. Suffice to say, the combatants threw heavy leather-based till the ultimate bell. Ennis ended up getting the judges’ unanimous determination by scores of 119-107, 117-109, 116-110.
Earlier within the night WBC tremendous flyweight titlist Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez stalked then battered an outclassed Pedro Guevara, who he stopped within the third. What was spectacular about Rodriguez was the truth that he refused to permit himself to grow to be annoyed by Guevara’s defensive motion, which the fighter employed all through the bout. Rodriguez merely saved shifting ahead till he was in a position to land on his man. Then the pictures began including up. By the third, Guevara was completed. Though he survived a primary knockdown on the gloved fingers of Rodriguez, he wasn’t in a position to survive a second, for the referee properly stopped the battle earlier than finishing a rely.
