An Irish fighter based mostly in Los Angles grew to become the toast of Boston for his knockdown energy punches.
Callum “King” Walsh, a local of Cork, Ireland who’s managed by Hall of Fame coach Freddie Roach, made fast work of Wesley Tucker within the second spherical of the primary occasion of Hollywood Fight Night Boston on Thursday at Agganis Arena. The tremendous welterweight combat was scheduled for 10 rounds with 3,256 within the seats.
“Boston has been unbelievable and I can’t wait to come back to Boston,” stated Walsh. “It is good to be Irish here and it’s crazy here with all the boxing legends and Freddie being from here. Sometime next year I hope to come back to Boston, maybe for St. Patrick’s Day.”
Tucker was an Eleventh-hour substitute for Leonardo Di Stefano Ruiz (10-1, 9 KO’s), who broke a finger in sparring. Walsh improved to 6-0 with 5 knockouts and can combat subsequent as a middleweight again in LA in June.
Walsh was prepared to take a couple of blows to land the large punch, a technique that paid off within the second. Walsh landed a mixture that put Tucker on the canvas. After Tucker took a standing eight depend, Walsh went to work, touchdown combos that put Tucker down in his nook for a second time within the spherical. Tucker went down for a 3rd time within the spherical, prompting the referee to cease the combat at 2:59 of the spherical.
“The first round he caught me with a checked hook and I realized that was his best shot,” stated Walsh. “So then I assumed I’m simply going to place the stress on him and get him out of there early.
“He came out in the second and tried to put the pressure on me and I caught with a left hand. I was trying to throw the flurries but I was also not trying to do too much.”
Danny O’Connor needed to bear a bodily and psychological restructuring whereas making an attempt to regain his misplaced stature within the tough and tumble sport {of professional} boxing.
O’Connor stepped away from the game to focus all his consideration as a primary responder in the course of the pandemic, initially as a firefighter and later a paramedic in Denver.
The Framingham native ended his five-year hiatus from the squared circle when he encountered Luis “Vicious” Garcia of Richmond, Calif., in an eight-round tremendous welterweight bout.
O’Connor’s timing appeared a bit off within the first, however he appeared sharp touchdown right-left combos from a protected distance within the second to obviously win the spherical. O’Connor, a southpaw, used his proper jab to arrange a left cross that opened a free-flowing minimize above the bridge of the nostril.
Garcia’s nook labored furiously to stem the bleeding and Garcia answered the bell for the fourth. O’Connor repeatedly landed sharp combos that turned Garcia’s mug right into a bloody mess, prompting the referee to cease the combat at 1:55 of the fourth. O’Connor improved to 31-3 with 12 knockouts.
“I had to reinvent myself as a person before I could reinvent myself as a fighter,” stated O’Connor earlier than the combat. “From all the habits and all the things instilled in me that I needed to overcome and that in turn reinvented me as a fighter.”
“Mentally and physically, I am stronger. I didn’t start boxing until I was 18 years old and made the Olympic team two years later. I had a lot of things I got by with because of my natural skills,” he stated.
On the undercard
The card kicked off with a six-round mild heavyweight bout between native favourite Kendrick Ball Jr. of Worcester and Mike Stegall from Cedar Hill, Mo.
Ball loved a large top and attain benefit, however his double jab leads have been successfully neutralized by Stegall’s counter punches to the top and physique. Stegall was in management by touchdown the heavier blows and clearly received 5 of the six rounds. The judges didn’t see it that method awarded the combat to Ball by unanimous determination. Ball improved to 20-1-3 whereas Stegall suffered his first professional loss.
The flashy featherweights took over in an eight-round match between Jose Edgardo Garcia of Houston, Texas in opposition to Hegly Mosqueda of Caracas, Venezuela. Both fighters possessed fast fingers and threw mixture punches in bunches. Mosqueda grew to become the aggressor within the third spherical and backed Garcia into the ropes with head and physique combos. The combat went the gap and Mosqueda received a cut up determination.
Francis “Frank the Tank” Hogan of Weymouth put his undefeated report on a line in opposition to veteran journeyman Jimmie Williams of New Haven, Conn, in a middleweight match. The combat took form within the second spherical with each boxers touchdown staggering mixture punches in the course of the ring. Hogan, who fights as a southpaw, took management within the third when he landed a sequence of left crosses that damage Williams. Hogan repeatedly staggered Williams within the fourth and fifth, prompting his nook to throw within the towel between rounds. Hogan improved to 14 with 13 KO’s.
Source: www.bostonherald.com
