By Rick Reeno
Michael Moorer may have brought his career back from the door of death with a huge TKO win tonight. Heavily behind on the points, Moorer caught Jirov with a short left hand that knocked Jirov silly. Jirov just collapsed on the ring floor and rather then take an eight count, Jirov jumped up very wobbly and the ref stopped the fight.
Early on in the fight, both fighters were testing the waters by taking it to eachother in the first two rounds. In the third, Jirov started to take over. There were several head clashes in the fight which resulted in two cuts on the head of Jirov, one on his scalp and one near his right eye.
Jirov used his hard jab, body shots and several power shots to control the fight from rounds three to eight. Moorer started to come on and show his power in the seventh and eight rounds. Moorer weighed near 250 pounds, but unlike his last bout he was in much better shape.