Roman Fury is now 6-0 (3 KOs) following a 4th round knockout victory over Hampshire journeyman Kevin Greenwood.
Their heavyweight was part of the Agit Kabayel-Damian Knyba DAZN card on Saturday from the Rudolf Weber-Arena in Oberhausen in Germany.
Fury - the younger half-brother of former two-time heavyweight champion Tyson Fury - was relaxed and calm, flicking out his southpaw jab and drawing blood from Greenwood’s nose in the opening round.
Greenwood, 6-12 (1 KO), who was out of the sport from 2015 to 2023, has lost all seven since he returned. He’d had some bareknuckle bouts, too.
With Fury patriarch John in the corner, Roman was a step ahead throughout. He fired shots from long range, often dropping his hands and helping himself to punches as Greenwood tried to hang tough.
It was methodical and business-like from Fury, who kept the pressure on and forced the referee’s intervention in the fourth-round while well ahead and in control.
Nelvie Tiafack (pictured) kicked off the televised portion of the DAZN show with a straightforward stoppage of Piotr Cwik.
Tiafack, who fights out of Cologne but was born in Cameroon, had things his own way.
By the end of the first round, Cwik was uncomfortable and protesting about being hit on the back of the head. The writing was on the wall. He’d taken some solid jabs and short right hooks and, with his right eye swelling, he was dropped once to the body and as Tiafack – who lost to Bakhodir Jalolov in the semi-finals of the Paris Olympics – flowed in, hooking with both hands to head and body, Cwik was saved from his passive shell by the referee.
Tiafack is now 3-0 (3 KOs). Cwik is 9-6 (8 KOs) and has lost his last four.
Cruiserweight Oronzo Birardi, 10-1 (7 KOs) opened Queensberry´s (along with Goldstar and Top Rank) big show by knocking out Serbian Miloslav Savic, 9-11-1 (7 KOs) 59 seconds into the fourth round. It was scheduled for 10.
WBA Intercontinental middleweight champ Gleb Bakshi, 7-0 (5 KOs), impressed in a 1st round stoppage of Mexican challenger Juan Jose Rodriguez Duran, 21-2 (19 KOs). Duran made an aggressive start and looked good but Bakhsi caught him with an overhand right and then floored him with a left hook. Duran got up but was out of it and it was stopped just 54 seconds into the contest.
Big heavyweights Daniel Dietz, 15-1-1 (14 KOs) and Seun Salami, 9-0-1 (7 KOs) fought to a draw after six rounds. Don't let their respective records fool you but it was a good, tough fight where both gave their all. Salami, from Austria, appeared to outwork his bigger opponent in the early rounds but tired down the stretch.
Heavyweight Kevin Saszik, 10-0 (4 KOs) knocked out Robin Och, 8-1 (7 KOs), in the first round of an all-German matchup.
