Comments Thread For: ESPN Friday Night Fights Early Results From Las Vegas

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Texas Station Gambling Hall, Las Vegas - Puerto Rican prospect Roberto Acevedo (3-0, 2KOs) stopped Velvet Malone (0-4) in the fourth and final round of a super middleweight contest. Malone stunned Acevedo in the second round but never let his hands go. Acevedo started landed several punches while he pressed Malone against the ropes, and then referee Russell More jumped in to stop it. The stoppage was rather quick.
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Texas Station Gambling Hall, Las Vegas - Puerto Rican prospect Roberto Acevedo (3-0, 2KOs) stopped Velvet Malone (0-4) in the fourth and final round of a super middleweight contest. Malone stunned Acevedo in the second round but never let his hands go. Acevedo started landed several punches while he pressed Malone against the ropes, and then referee Russell More jumped in to stop it. The stoppage was rather quick.
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Good win for Rances, what a disgrace that Rodriguez is, not because he loss but because he took the Solis path.

[NearHypnos]

... Miranda did not take the cut well. Sucks he lost. I just want to see him win a belt one of these days/years. Love that guy. Go to top rank and have roach train you = guarantee champ...even if it's paper champ. >__>

[rudy4pl]

I thought the fat guy connected with a few punches before he gassed entering the second round. I think he had a good strategy armoring his belly up with booze to negate the body punches, but unfortunately it backfired...

[TaurusJ27]

I laughed about Teddy Atlas's comments over Pedro Rodriguez's pot belly and agreed with him at the same time. I thought he was going to k.o. Magomed Abdusalamov in that first round before he ran out of gas from all that blubber he was carrying.

[nycsmooth]

Miranda looked shot, after the 4th...no combos, no real power, cutting off the ring, etc, coupled w/Diaz dong terrible job on the cut, and he's supposed to b 1 of the best (don't make me laugh)...Miranda needs to reasses where he's going, as after last night, not far...

[joe strong]

By James Slater: Unbeaten Russian big man Magomed “Mago” Abdusalamov has been getting a fair amount of ink just lately, and fans were anxious to see the 6’3” southpaw’s Friday Night Fights debut last night on ESPN. Magomed won, improving his pro record to 13-0(13) - with nobody yet extending him beyond the 3rd-round - but his victory was less than impressive due to the awful physical condition of his opponent, blown-up cruiserweight Pedro Rodriguez of Cuba, who is now 8-1(6).

After a slow start in the 1st-round, during which the somewhat lumbering Magomed was caught by a couple of right hands to the head, the southpaw turned up the heat in the 2nd. A series of heavy-looking lefts and rights to the head had Rodriguez stuck on the ropes before a final shot sent the flabby Cuban to the mat. Upon this, referee Russell Mora waved the mismatch off. The time was just one minute and 4-seconds of the round.

Commentator Teddy Atlas sounded less than impressed with the latest Magomed win, and it’s true the prospect is in need of far, far tougher tests if he’s to develop into a serious heavyweight contender. In Team-Magomed’s defence, Sampson Lewkowicz has openly stated how a number of name fighters have been approached but want no part of his fighter. The Sampson Boxing boss says that he has trouble even getting decent sparring partners for Abdusalamov.

The Russian certainly has raw power in both hands, yet he has not been tested at all thus far in his pro career. “Mago” is keeping himself active, however, with a planned March 17th bout in New York, on the Sergio Martinez-Matthew Macklin card up on Boxrec (against 31-5-1(24) Brazilian Raphael Zumbano, who should provide a better test than Rodriguez did).

Fans will likely continue to watch Abdusalamov, seeing as how he is that commodity that will always attract attention: a heavyweight who can bang. But please, no more Pedro Rodriguez’s and no more blow-up former cruiserweights!

Some guys I’d love to see Abdusalamov in with in the coming months:

Tyson Fury. Would fellow unbeaten Fury want to risk his zero with a U.S debut against the southpaw?

Cedric Boswell. “The Boz” may want to attempt to get back into the picture for a decent payday after his recent KO loss to Alexander Povetkin. The veteran would provide a good test for Abdusalamov.

Oliver McCall. Another tough veteran. If McCall fights again, he’d perhaps be interested in testing the unbeaten hope.

Vinny Maddalone. This one, aside from likely being a great, all-action fight (Vinny is rarely involved in anything else) would tell us a lot more about the heart and stamina of Abdusalamov.

[joe strong]

By James Slater: Unbeaten Russian big man Magomed “Mago” Abdusalamov has been getting a fair amount of ink just lately, and fans were anxious to see the 6’3” southpaw’s Friday Night Fights debut last night on ESPN. Magomed won, improving his pro record to 13-0(13) - with nobody yet extending him beyond the 3rd-round - but his victory was less than impressive due to the awful physical condition of his opponent, blown-up cruiserweight Pedro Rodriguez of Cuba, who is now 8-1(6).

After a slow start in the 1st-round, during which the somewhat lumbering Magomed was caught by a couple of right hands to the head, the southpaw turned up the heat in the 2nd. A series of heavy-looking lefts and rights to the head had Rodriguez stuck on the ropes before a final shot sent the flabby Cuban to the mat. Upon this, referee Russell Mora waved the mismatch off. The time was just one minute and 4-seconds of the round.

Commentator Teddy Atlas sounded less than impressed with the latest Magomed win, and it’s true the prospect is in need of far, far tougher tests if he’s to develop into a serious heavyweight contender. In Team-Magomed’s defence, Sampson Lewkowicz has openly stated how a number of name fighters have been approached but want no part of his fighter. The Sampson Boxing boss says that he has trouble even getting decent sparring partners for Abdusalamov.

The Russian certainly has raw power in both hands, yet he has not been tested at all thus far in his pro career. “Mago” is keeping himself active, however, with a planned March 17th bout in New York, on the Sergio Martinez-Matthew Macklin card up on Boxrec (against 31-5-1(24) Brazilian Raphael Zumbano, who should provide a better test than Rodriguez did).

Fans will likely continue to watch Abdusalamov, seeing as how he is that commodity that will always attract attention: a heavyweight who can bang. But please, no more Pedro Rodriguez’s and no more blow-up former cruiserweights!

Some guys I’d love to see Abdusalamov in with in the coming months:

Tyson Fury. Would fellow unbeaten Fury want to risk his zero with a U.S debut against the southpaw?

Cedric Boswell. “The Boz” may want to attempt to get back into the picture for a decent payday after his recent KO loss to Alexander Povetkin. The veteran would provide a good test for Abdusalamov.

Oliver McCall. Another tough veteran. If McCall fights again, he’d perhaps be interested in testing the unbeaten hope.

Vinny Maddalone. This one, aside from likely being a great, all-action fight (Vinny is rarely involved in anything else) would tell us a lot more about the heart and stamina of Abdusalamov.

i think fury, mccall & boswell all beat him.maddalone would give him a good test.