By: Sean Crose
The 14-0-1 Raymond Ford entered the ring on the Turning Stone Resort and On line casino Saturday night time within the hope of profitable the vacant WBA featherweight title. His opponent within the scheduled 12 rounder was the 12-0 Otabek Kholmatov. The primary spherical was largely a sense out course of, although Kholmatov was in a position to land successfully. Ford virtually went down in an thrilling second, that noticed Kholmatov land some good pictures whereas Ford largely fought properly behind his quick jab. Whereas Ford remained sharp within the third, he merely allowed Kholmatov to land cleanly far too incessantly. By the tip of the spherical Kholmatov was placing punches collectively impressively.
Ford proved to be fairly aggressive within the fourth, firing off punches with quick palms, and controlling the tempo of the chapter. A really busy Kholmatov fully dominated the fifth with punch mixtures. The sixth was thrilling and quick paced, with every man having his robust moments. Kholmatov fired away at his man within the seventh. Ford had a stable eighth, touchdown sharp pictures of his personal that landed cleanly. Kholmatov took to shifting about and outright avoiding Ford in the course of the ninth. Ford was good within the tenth, however Kholmatov was higher. All through the battle, the person merely appeared to have extra within the tank than Ford did.
A bloody however decided Ford tried to sharpshoot within the eleventh, to some constructive outcomes. Nonetheless, it didn’t appear to be Ford would have a lot likelihood on the choose’s playing cards because the twelfth spherical started. So Ford let all of it go, charging at Kholmatov, touchdown like he had tried to land all night time, and eventually doing sufficient to get the referee to legitimately cease the battle simply earlier than the ultimate bell. It was a rare win for the New Jersey fighter, who’s now the WBA featherweight champion of the world.
