CAROLINE Dubois maintained the searing start to her professional career by crushing the hopelessly overmatched Feriche Mashaury inside three rounds at the Wembley Arena.
Dubois, the younger sister of heavyweight contender Daniel, is considered by many as the hottest prospect in all of women’s boxing.
And she blew away her Tanzanian opponent, who arrived in London with a 10-7 record, but Dubois could not hide her frustration as she assessed the victory.
“I am frustrated,” Dubois said, after barely breaking a sweat.
“It’s not about going long but I wanted someone who would fight back, throw back. She was negative from the first bell. She was literally turning away.”
Dubois stalked Mashaury relentlessly for the entire first round from her southpaw stance, and was landing to both head and body at will.
She made a major breakthrough with 30 seconds left in the second round, dropping Mashaury for the first time with a straight left to the body. She clambered to her feet and clung on until the end of the round.
The visitor actually managed to land a couple of left hooks in the third but they did nothing to quell Dubois’ intense pressure. In fact, so one-sided was the beatdown by now, in the opinion of referee Howard Foster, that he stepped in to end the contest after 47 seconds of the round.
“She needs to be active, that will be the first of five fights this year,” promoter Ben Shalom said. "We want world titles before the end of this year. She is on a trajectory like nobody else.”
Before that, Jeamie TKV ground out a hard-fought points win over Harry Armstong in their eight-threes heavyweight contest.
TKV, full name Jeamie Tshikeva, was coming off the back of two first-round finishes and was hoping to make another statement against 5-0-1 Armstrong.
However he was forced to dig deep and go the distance despite dominating large portions of the fight. Referee Bob Williams’ 77-75 scorecard in favour of TKV seemed to flatter Armstrong, who took some punishment over the course of the clash.
Earlier, Luton super-middleweight Jordan Reynolds moved to 5-0 (2) when he dropped and stopped Mohamed Cherif Benchadi in the sixth and final round of their encounter.
Benchadi was dropped in the second round but regained his composure and managed to keep himself in the fight until a final barrage from Reynolds forced Howard Foster to step in and wave it off.
LA-based Irisman Stevie McKenna, meanwhile, chalked up his 12th inside-distance win out of 13 fights. McKenna could barely miss over the course of the first four rounds forcing Brendon Denes to retire on his stool before the start of the fifth.
Hassan Azim, the elder brother of headliner Adam, seemed to be in a hurry as he crushed Abdallah Luanja inside two brutal rounds of their six rounder, which moved him to 6-0 (3).
In the opening fight of the night, Razor Ali claimed the first stoppage victory of his career by seeing off Hector Lozano in the third of their featherweight clash.
