Jeison Rosario was stopped by a jab to the stomach in the eighth round on Saturday night in Uncasville, Conn. He said that wasn’t the key blow by now-unified 154-pound champ Jermell Charlo, though.
Rosario told Dominican boxing official Franklin Nunez that he never recovered from a left hook that put in down in the sixth, BoxingScene.com reported.
“Actually the punch that came [in the eighth] did not have the strength of the other,” Rosario said. “What happened was that I was already coming out there after receiving that punch that I took in the sixth round, from which I did not recover.
“My respect for Charlo, he is a great champion. I will continue to move forward.”
That makes it somewhat easier to understand the final blow, a jab that put Rosario on his back and sent him into what appeared to be a convulsion or seizure.
Rosario, reportedly dizzy and nauseated after the fight, was taken to a hospital. He was released that night.
Rosario also went down in the first round when another Charlo hook skipped off the top of his opponent’s head.
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