Boxing News: With one second remaining in the fifth round, Sam Eggington, an all-action brawler as always, blasted Joe Pigford to a devastating stoppage loss.
They started off quite hesitantly for two such dynamic boxers. Eggington skillfully utilised his jab to cut Pigford’s head and drive it into the body.
He followed it with rapid right crosses that caught Pigford by surprise and forced him to retreat.
In the third round, Pigford was more disturbed by Eggington’s right hand. The man from Southampton was struck in the side of the head. To trouble Pigford, he threw the cross with terrible pace.
Before firing his right shot to the body, the Birmingham guy opened up with headshots. Pigford is a knockout artist, yet during their exchanges, he was getting knocked backwards.
However, Pigford seized him with a right after being defiant. However, roaring back, Eggington shook him with close-range hooks.
At the beginning of the fifth round, he maintained that momentum by landing his cross flush to the chin. When he threw it down, Pigford caught him on a right, but it was a brief success.
Eggington focused on the objective. He made Pigford sway a lot. The Southampton guy raised his arms in an attempt to clasp, his eyes appearing empty.
However, Eggington pounded in close, chopping hooks that rocked Pigford, stopping him with a vicious finish. The round may have had one-second remaining, but it had to end immediately.
The enthusiastic reaction to Lee Cutler’s ring walk, who was the first boxer from Bournemouth to compete in the Vitality stadium, was a preview of what Chris Billam-Smith would encounter when he faced WBO cruiserweight champion Lawrence Okolie in the main event.
However, Stannard began the fight from his southpaw posture and boxed composedly.
Cutler became more active in response to that. Stannard saw clues that the Harby man would be deadly when he started to let his left cross fly out from behind a high guard.
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