As we speak’s battle between heavyweights Deontay Wilder and Zhilei Zhang will headline on the loaded Queenberry vs. Matchroom ‘5 vs. 5’ card, reside on DAZN PPV on the Kingdom Enviornment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Occasion particulars and begin time:
– 2:00 p.m. ET / 7 pm UK time
– Worth: $69.99 on DAZN PPV – Battle followers in UK can catch all of the motion on TNT Sports activities
– Kingdom Enviornment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
– Date: As we speak, June 1st
Stay updates and outcomes of at this time’s motion will likely be proven beneath.
WBA gentle heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs) defeated his substitute opponent Malik Zinad (22-1, 16 KOs) by a sixth-round technical knockout.
Bivol, 33, damage the upset-minded Zinad with a proper hand in spherical six after which unleashed a storm of photographs to trigger the referee Howard Foster to cease the battle. The time of the stoppage was at 2:06 of spherical six.
Bivol knocked Zinad down in spherical one with a left hook to the pinnacle. Zinad had been combating effectively as much as that time, connecting with many stiff proper fingers and jabs.
Zinad saved Bivol from doing a lot in rounds two via 5 by jabbing and throwing highly effective proper fingers. He confirmed wonderful energy with the photographs he was hitting Bivol with, and he made him not wish to assault the best way he usually does.
Undefeated middleweight contender Hamzah Sheeraz (20-0, 16 KOs) used his peak and attain to put on down and cease Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams (16-1, 11 KOs) in spherical eleven of a WBC title eliminator.
Sheeraz, the Queensberry Group captain, unloaded sledgehammer photographs firstly of the eleventh to stagger Williams, sending him backward. The referee, Mark Lyson, then stepped in and waved it off.
Late within the tenth spherical, Sheeraz dropped Ammo Williams with a superbly timed proper hand to the pinnacle. Williams was badly damage when he bought to his ft, however fortunately for him, the spherical ended earlier than Sheeraz may end him off. Nonetheless, Williams was too damage to recuperate between rounds and was instantly stopped firstly of the 11thi spherical.
Williams had his moments within the battle, hurting the 6’3″ Sheeraz with a straight left to the pinnacle in spherical one, and staggering him once more within the fourth. Sheeraz took over the battle from the fifth spherical, as stayed on the surface and getting nailed along with his energy jab and laborious proper fingers.
Ammo’s coach, Kevin Cunningham, regularly informed him to crowd Sheeraz and preserve the motion in shut, however he wasn’t constant in doing so. It appeared like he had no confidence in his skill to harm Sheeraz on the within, so he would retreat to the surface to load up on his lefts.
In hindsight, that was a nasty thought becaue it allowed Sheeraz to make use of his jab, the equal of an influence punch, and his proper hand to land large photographs.
Unbeaten Nick Ball (20-0-1, 11 KOs) used his nonstop stress to put on down and defeat WBA featherweight champion Raymond Ford (15-1-1, 8 KOs), successful a razor-close twelve-round break up choice.
Scores:
115-113: Ball
115-113: Ball
115-113: Ford
Ford was minimize underneath his proper eye and above his left eye early within the contest from the photographs that Ball was raining on him along with his excessive work price. Within the seventh spherical, Ford landed a robust proper hand that bloodied Ball’s nostril.
Ford bought the higher of the motion from rounds seven via eleven, utilizing his jab and pinpoint lefts to outbox Ball. Within the essential twelfth spherical, Ball got here alive, firing uppercuts and mixtures to get the higher of Ford. That proved to be the essential spherical within the battle.
Willy Hutchinson (18-1, 13 KOs) appeared excellent, boxing his method to a one-sided twelve-round unanimous choice victory over Craig Richards (18-4-1, 11 KOs). Hutchinson used motion and odd punching angles to dominate the 34-year-old Richards your complete battle.
Within the tenth, Hutchinson has Richards in bother after unloading a flurry of photographs whereas he was towards the ropes. The referee may have referred to as it a knockdown as a result of the ropes held Richards up whereas he was getting shelled nonstop with photographs by Hutchinson. The judges scores had been 116-112, 117-111, and 119-109.
Hutchinson beat Richards a lot simpler than Dmitry Bivol had years in the past, and he confirmed that he might be a future world champion within the gentle heavyweight division with this efficiency.
