Jared Anderson never gave Jerry Forrest a chance.
Anderson battered his overmatched opponent from the opening bell until finally stopping him at 1:34 of the second round of a scheduled 10-round heavyweight bout on the Teofimo Lopez-Sandor Martin card Saturday in New York.
Anderson (13-0, 13 KOs) landed a few dozen punishing blows in the opening round, during which he almost stopped Forrest (26-6-2, 20 KOs). The concerned ring doctor examined Forrest after the round before allowing him to continue.
In Round 2 Anderson picked up where he left off, pounding Forrest relentlessly until finally hurting him with a hard right that made him slump in a corner.
That prompted referee David Fields to stop the fight.
Anderson, 23, is ranked No. 15 by the WBC, but he’s just getting started.
In other preliminary fights, unior middleweight prospect Xander Zayas (15-0, 10 KOs) of Puerto Rico defeated Alexis Salazar (24-5, 9 KOs) by a unanimous decision in an eight-round bout.
The scores were 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73.
And 2020 U.S. Olympic silver medalist Keyshawn Davis (7-0, 5 KOs) of Norfolk, Virginia, defeated veteran Juan Carlos Burgos (35-7-3, 21 KOs) of Mexico by a shutout decision — 80-70 on all three cards — in an eight-round lightweight bout.