Prime Rank’s A-sides had a tough go of issues on the Palms final night time when Raymond Muratalla edged out Tevin Farmer and Ruben Villa suffered a large upset loss to unheralded Ugandan veteran Sulaiman Segawa.
Muratalla (21-0, 16 KO), competing in his first primary occasion due to Janibek Alimkhanuly’s premature exit earlier than Friday’s weigh-ins, spent the primary half of the bout battling the craft that made Farmer (33-6-1, 8 KO) a menace in his tremendous featherweight heyday. Regardless of consuming quite a lot of heavy left palms from the previous champ, although, Muratalla ultimately discovered his footing and started imposing his will.
An more and more ineffective Farmer misplaced a degree for holding within the eighth spherical, then very almost misplaced consciousness from a crushing proper hook within the ultimate 90 seconds of the struggle. Whereas he managed to remain on his ft and see the ultimate bell, Muratalla swept the final three rounds on all three scorecards to safe a unanimous choice win.
Muratalla proceeded to name out the not too long ago topped Denys Berinchyk, however Prime Rank could need to give him an additional struggle or two to use what he realized right here. As for Farmer, he’s clearly nonetheless obtained one thing left within the tank and might be an issue if he returned to 130.
Within the co-feature, Villa (22-2, 7 KO) noticed his desires of a rematch with Luis Alberto Lopez go up in smoke due to Segawa’s (17-4-1, 6 KO) grit and regular output. Over the course of 10 entertaining rounds, Segawa persistently proved the simpler hitter in shut quarters, cracking Villa with quite a lot of heavy lefts regardless of Villa’s crisper palms.
Of specific notice was the eighth spherical, which noticed Segawa rattle Villa with straight lefts earlier than “Drac” damage him in return with a physique shot.
Segawa, who was anyplace from a +700 to a +980 underdog going into the ring, in the end walked away with a deserved unanimous choice. It’s far and away essentially the most spectacular win of his profession, eclipsing a 2019 choice over present tremendous bantamweight contender Elijah Pierce. Prime Rank’s obtained no scarcity of choices for the 33-year-old’s subsequent bout, whether or not or not it’s one in every of their three featherweight champions or, extra seemingly, sizzling prospect Bruce Carrington.
As for Villa, it’s as soon as once more again to the drafting board. He’s nonetheless obtained time to show issues round at 27, so hopefully he can tighten issues up and get again in type.
