Comments Thread For: Rabchenko-Mundine, Browne-Welliver Early Results From Melbourne

[JakeNDaBox]

Leonard Zappavigna picked up his eighth straight win after battering Misael Castillo into submission inside of seven rounds.

The bout was a one-sided rout from the opening bell. Zappavigna dropped Castilo early and unloaded on his overmatched Mexican foe for much of the night. The fight was ultimately halted late in round seven, when Castillo was under siege and not firing back, prompting the referee to rightfully jump in and waive off the contest.

The official time was 2:46 of round seven.

Zappavigna improves to 33-2 (23KOs), and enjoying new life at 140 lb. after suffering back-to-back losses in his final two bouts at lightweight. The Aussie came up well short in his lone title fight to date, dropping a 12-round decision to Miguel Vazquez in March '11. An attempt to get back in the title fray was miserably thwarted just five months later when Ammeth Diaz stopped him in five rounds.

Castillo heads back to Mexico having now lost two straight as he falls to 26-4 (24KOs). The one mark he left on the crowd and viewing audience was his bizarre haircut, featuring a patch of hair on the base of his otherwise bald skull.
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[BostonGuy]

Not impressed with Browne's performance. I've seen Browne a bunch of times and he seemed decent and a work-in-process; however, he looked like crap against Welliver. His offense seemed pretty lackadaisical, his jab was nonexistent, his punches were telegraphing and lacked snap and crispness and he seemed to lack a killer instinct. It shouldn't have taken him 5 rounds to dispatch of Chauncy. The guy was grossly out of shape, was shorter and had less of a reach than Browne