Heavyweight Alexander Flores got off the canvas to stop Cassius Chaney in the seventh round Friday at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California.
The time of the stoppage was officially 3 minutes of Round 7.
The bout served as the main event of a card promoted by DMG Promotions.
Flores, from Rowland Heights, California, pushed forward in the first round, while Chaney boxed off his back foot. After a stalemate, Chaney, of New London, Connecticut, dropped Flores with a right hand in the last second of the round.
Chaney buzzed Flores again in the second with a right hand. Flores pressed the action in the fourth and fifth rounds as Chaney began to slow down, with his output decreasing.
Flores continued to be the busier of the two heading into the seventh round. Flores, 35, might have been fighting pretty, but he was outworking the 38-year-old Chaney. The bout came to an unceremonious close between rounds when Chaney’s corner stopped it before the eighth round.
Last year, Chaney had been rumored to be fighting Anthony Joshua, before Joshua chose instead to fight Jake Paul.
Flores improved to 21-5-1 (19 KOs) and is on a two-fight win streak. Chaney fell to 24-4 (17 KOs) and has lost three of his past four fights.
Lucas Ketelle is the author of “Inside the Ropes of Boxing,” a guide for young fighters, a writer for BoxingScene and a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. Find him on X at @BigDogLukie.
