Adonis Stevenson retained the WBC Light Heavyweight title with an action packed 4th round stoppage over Thomas Williams and the Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada.
Stevenson dropped Williams in the last 30 seconds of the opening frame with a left to the top of the head. Williams came back to rock Stevenson on several occasions over the next two rounds. Stevenson came out and round four and landed some tremendous body shots that started breaking Williams down. Williams started to bleed from both over and under his left eye. Stevenson then landed a perfect six-inch straight left that crumpled Williams face-first to the canvas. Williams tried to get to his fight but could not beat the count at 2:54.
Stevenson of Montreal is now 28-1 with 23 knockouts. Williams of Baltimore is now 20-2.
Eleider Alvarez won a 10-round unanimous decision over late-replacement Robert Berridge in a light heavyweight fight.
In round five, Berridge’s right eye began to swell. Alvarez dominated the action and won by scores of 99-90 and 98-91 twice.
Alvarez is now 20-0. Berridge is 27-5-1.
Immanuwel Aleem and DeMond Nicholson battled to a majority draw in a middleweight bout.
Aleem took a card 77-75 while two cards read even at 76-76.
Aleem is now 16-0-1. Nicholson is 17-1-1.
