By Mark Vester
At the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, lightweight prospect Antonio DeMarco (20-1-1, 14KOs) stopped veteran Almazbek “Kid Diamond” Raiymkulov (27-2-1, 15KOs) in a very exciting fight.
Kid Diamond laned better and harder in the first round. DeMarco appeared to be too tentative with his shots. There was a clash of heads in the closing seconds of the first, opening a cut above the right eye of Kid Diamond. The right hands of Kid Diamond were pushing DeMarco back in the second. Left hands were landing for DeMarco, but they appeared to have little impact.
A clash of heads in the third opened a cut above the left eye of DeMarco. In the fourth and fifth rounds, DeMarco got in his groove and began to find Kid Diamond with left hands and uppercuts. Rounds five through eight were close, but in round nine - DeMarco put on a clinic with bodyshots, combinations and left hands that almost finished Kid Diamond off. Before the start of the tenth, the ringside doctor appeared to stop the fight, with agreement from the corner, after making a determination that Kid Diamond's nose was broken.
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