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Anthony Dirrell is inactive here.
Winless successful his past 2 fights, the erstwhile 168-pound titlist came to Las Vegas needing a triumph to revitalize his career. And helium got it successful a large way, stopping Marcos Hernandez with a devastating close uppercut successful the 4th round. Dirrell’s triumph highlighted the Canelo Alvarez-Caleb Plant undercard connected Saturday astatine MGM Grand Garden Arena.
After Dirrell won the archetypal round, Hernandez came backmost beardown and had occurrence connected the inside, landing assemblage shots and racking up points. But Dirrell knew the opening was there, and successful the 4th circular helium landed a cleanable uppercut that folded Hernandez astir instantly.
Flat connected his back, Hernandez managed to get to his feet, but helium was connected unsteady legs and referee Celestino Ruiz stopped the combat astatine 22 seconds of the round.
Dirrell instantly celebrated with a cleanable backflip successful the halfway of the ring. The Flint, Michigan, autochthonal mislaid his World Boxing Council ace middleweight loop to David Benavidez successful 2019, past rebounded with a disappointing gully against Kyrone Davis successful February.
After the fight, helium called for a matchup with the victor of the main event, though it’s improbable he’ll get it.
Other fights
— Former WBC ace bantamweight titlist Rey Vargas earned a unanimous determination triumph implicit Leonardo Baez successful his archetypal combat since 2019.
Vargas easy outpointed Leonardo Baez, controlling the region with his jab. Baez tried to get connected the inside, but helium could ne'er rather illustration a mode toward Vargas and didn’t person overmuch success.
It was Vargas’ archetypal combat astatine featherweight aft helium vacated his 122-pound rubric to determination up a value class. Though it wasn’t an eye-catching show by immoderate stretch, the undefeated Vargas is present a contender successful the featherweight division.
— Elvis Rodriguez kicked disconnected the main paper with an awesome knockout triumph implicit Juan Pablo Romero.
In his archetypal combat since being released by his erstwhile promoter Top Rank, Rodriguez (12-1-1, 11 knockouts) started by getting pushed against the ropes portion Romero (14-1, 9 KOs) scored points by attacking the body. But the enactment heated up successful the 4th round, erstwhile Rodriguez landed a operation that wounded Romero and forced him to instrumentality a knee.
He came retired firing successful the fifth, but Rodriguez landed a consecutive near manus that sat Romero down adjacent the borderline of the ring. He looked consecutive astatine the referee but didn’t effort to basal up arsenic the number reached 10 astatine 2 minutes, 59 seconds of the round.
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