Bradley Outboxes Holt To Unify The WBO/WBC Titles
By Mark Vester
At the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, WBO junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (24-0, 11KOs) decisioned WBO champion Kendall Holt (25-3, 13KOs) over twelve rounds to unify the titles. The scores were 114-112, 115-111 and 115-111.
The first round started with a bang. During a first round exchange, A left hook sent Bradley down hard. He took his time to get up. Once he did, Holt tried to finish him. Bradley was able to survive. In the second, Holt kept his distance, allowing Bradley to come forward. Holt continued to push Bradley back with hard lefts. Bradley came back better in the third, outboxing Holt in spots.
Bradley continued to do better in the fourth, pressing the action as a cut was bothering Holt. In the fifth, Bradley began to use a lot of pressure, tagging Holt who was moving backwards and trying to counter. The sixth round saw Bradley's punches begin to hurt stagger Holt a little. The action heated up in the seventh. Holt began to trade hard shots with Bradley. During an exchange, a Bradley body shot really hurt Holt. He continued to pound Holt's body and continued to come back with punches to the head.
The fight was back in Bradley's court in the eight. He outboxed Holt for most of the three minutes, not allowing him to get off. The ninth saw better action from Holt. He got more active with his power punches. In the next two rounds, Bradley came right back, getting braver and braver as he chased Holt around and tried to bait him into brawls. The final round saw Holt stay on the back foot. Bradley pressed forward and landed shots. In the final ten seconds, Holt scored another knockdown with an uppercut that saw Bradley sink down and his right glove touched the mat.
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