MGM Grand Conference Center, Las Vegas - In a super middleweight contest, Edgar Berlanga (15-0, 15 KOs) continued with his streak of first round knockouts, as he took out Lanell Bellows (20-6-3, 13 KOs) in a single one-sided round.
Edgar Berlanga continued his incredible first-round knockout streak Saturday night. Lanell Bellows came to fight, but the hard-hitting Berlanga buzzed him with a left hook, further hurt him with a right hand and wasted little time finishing off the veteran super middleweight with punishing power punches. Referee Robert Hoyle stopped their scheduled eight-rounder just one minute and 19 seconds into it, with a staggered Bellows still on his feet at MGM Grand Conference Center.
Berlanga, Bellows Weights Photos Gallery - WBO/WBA/WBC Franchise world champion Vasiliy “Loma” Lomachenko, the pound-for-pound “Boxing Baryshnikov” from Ukraine, will fight unbeaten IBF world champion Teofimo Lopez, the knockout artist from Brooklyn who has lobbed verbal haymakers at Lomachenko for more than two years. The two will fight from the MGM Grand Conference Center aka the “Las Vegas Bubble.”
LAS VEGAS – Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez finally came face-to-face several seconds after they made weight Friday afternoon at MGM Grand Conference Center. Lomachenko smiled and confidently shook his head once they eventually were separated following an intense staredown. Lopez’s facial expression never changed before they went in opposite directions and walked off the stage.
Puerto Rican super middleweight Edgar Berlanga will be looking to make another power punching. display when he steps into the ring on Saturday night. Berlanga, 23, was is part of the undercard for this Saturday's highly anticipated fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KO) and Teófimo López (15-0, 12 KO) in the Top Rank bubble at MGM in Las Vegas.
Top Rank, promoter for Edgar Berlanga, are hoping that Lanell Bellows will not join the clan of fighters to be knocked out in the first round on October 17. Since his debut in 2016, Berlanga has knocked out all 14 of his opponents in the first round.
The most anticipated fight of the fall — the Oct. 17 lightweight unification showdown between WBC Franchise/WBA/WBO world champion Vasiliy “Loma” Lomachenko and IBF kingpin Teofimo Lopez from the MGM Grand Las Vegas “Bubble”— now has a two-course televised appetizer befitting the occasion.
Lionell “Lonnie B” Thompson 21-5 (11KOs) made an exciting return at tonight’s Sin City Showdown inside The Club at Cannery Casino & Hotel with a TKO decision against Scott Sigmon 34-14-1 (17KOs) after 7 rounds of action. The 10-round battle between Cameron “Suave” Krael 16-15-3 (4KOs) and Gabriel Duluc 15-3 (4KOs) ended in a majority decision for Boston’s Duluc.
September 20, 2019 – Hard-hitting light heavyweight contender, Lionell “Lonnie B” Thompson 20-5, (11 KOs) makes his return in a 10-round attraction vs. Bedford Virginia’s Scott “Cujo” Sigmon 34-13 (17 KOs) headlining Mayweather Promotions’ third installment of Sin City Showdown for the year on Friday September 20 live from The Club at the Cannary Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas fan favorite, Cameron “Suave” Krael got the victory in a 10-round welterweight showdown against Kenya’s Michael “Hurricane” Odhiambo, live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. In the co-main event, “Amazing” Layla McCarter scored a unanimous decision victory over Argentina’s Yamila “La Maquinita” Reynoso.