Prograis stops Herrera in one
Regis Prograis scored a first round stoppage over Aaron Herrera in a scheduled 10-round Super Lightweight bout at the Buffalo Run in Miami, Oklahoma.
Prograis landed a perfect straight left to the body that backed up Herrera and eventually took a knee for the ten cound at 2:17.
Prograis, 141 lbs of Houston, TX is now 17-0 with 14 knockouts. Herrera, 142 lbs of Meridia, MX is 21-5-1.
“I was prepared to go 10 full rounds, the last thing I was expecting was a first-round knockout,’’ said Prograis, who was making his 2016 debut. “I’m making hard fights look easy but they’re really not. It’s all the daily work in the gym all day every day that is paying off for me. Tonight was fun. I’m very satisfied.
“I want all the fighters in my division to know one thing: I’m coming after all of you.’’
“He just got me with a great shot, it was simple as that,’’ said Herrera, who making his second start in the United States. “There’s really not that much that I can say.’’
In what was a fight between previously undefeated Super Lightweights, Ivan Baranchyk scored a 21 second knockout over Nick Givhan in a scheduled 10-round bout.
Baranchyk landed a big left hook that sent Givhan to the canvas. Givhan hugged onto the bottom rope until referee Gary Ritter counted 10.
Baranchyk, 139 1/2 lbs of Minsk, BEL is 10-0 with nine knockouts. Givhan, 140 lbs of Kalamazoo, MI is 16-1-1.
“I’m very happy,’’ Baranchyk said. “I was expecting a much longer fight. I was focused on a full fight. But knockouts are good. I know fans like knockouts.
“I’ll take a week off and then go back to the drawing board. I’m looking ahead to fighting again soon and on ShoBox again.’’
Givhan was shocked with the result.
“I’m good but I am very, very disappointed,” Givhan said. “This is the lowlight of my life. For me to get knocked out by someone I know I can beat is just the worst feeling. And there’s nothing worse than for it to happen on national television.
“No one expects 20-second fights. I just got caught, that’s all.”
In a battle of undefeated Welterweights, Ivan Golub stopped Marlon Aguas after the sixth round of a scheduled eight round bout.
In round two they traded knockdowns. First Golub landed a right to the body that sent Aguas down. Just seconds later, it was a perfect right from Aguas that dropped Golub.
Golub, 146 1/2 lbs of Orlovksa, UKR is 11-0 with nine knockouts. Aguas, 148 lbs of Quito, ECU is 9-1.
In round six, Golub starting wearing Aguas down and dropped him from an accumulation of blows. After the round, Aguas corner stopped the fight.
Golub, a former standout amateur from Ukraine, had to rally from the first knockdown of his career. “This was a little tougher than I expected,’’ he said. “But it’s all about learning. I had to go through some adversity to win. You don’t know adversity until it hits you in the face.”
Golub was the more active fighter against the awkward Aguas, who was at his best when matters turned ugly. In a bizarre second round, southpaw Golub scored a questionable knockdown as Aguas hit the canvas while clinching and off-balance. Aguas bounced back seconds later to knock down Golub with a short right, sending the Ukrainian to the canvas for the first time in his career.
“I was surprised that I got knocked down, but he caught me off-balance,’’ Golub said. “Overall, I am very happy with my performance.”
Aguas said an injury, not fatigue, was the reason his corner stopped the fight at the end of the sixth. “I hurt my right bicep in the fifth round,’’ he said. “That’s the reason we stopped it. I wasn’t that tired.”
Justin DeLoach scored a devastating fourth round stoppage over previously undefeated Dillon Cook in a scheduled eight round junior middleweight bout.
Cook landed a perfect right that slumped Cook to the canvas and he did not beat referee Gerald Ritter’s count at 2:47 of round four.
DeLoach, 153 1/4 lbs of Augusta, GA is now 14-1 with eight knockouts. Cook, 154 lbs of Joplin, MO is 16-1.
“I’m happy with my performance,’’ said DeLoach, who was the more active fighter, throwing nearly 100 more punches over the four rounds. “This was a great experience fighting a guy like this in his backyard. I enjoyed the crowd and their enthusiasm. It motivated me. I got a little lazy in parts of the second and third rounds, but I listened to my corner and picked it up on offense and got my punch count up and going again.
“Dillon was a good fighter who moved a lot. I know I have to do better cutting off the ring. He landed with a left a second before I landed that big right. This was a great win for all of us. I’m ready to do this again.’’
“Look at me, look at my shirt. It feels like I was sweating worse than when I fought,’’ said Williams, who’s pro career came to a sudden and tragic end when he was paralyzed from the waist down after a motorcycle accident in May 2012. “I am very relieved to get this one out of the way. I’m very happy for Justin and Mr. Pete (Paul’s longtime manager and trainer and DeLoach’s assistant trainer, George Williams)
“I’m OK, all things considered,’’ said Cook. “He was a tough guy. I’ve never been knocked out before so I don’t exactly know how to act. I felt I was in the fight until I was caught. It’s disappointing, but this was a great learning experience for me. It can only help me in the long run.’’