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Photos: David Morrell’s sensational knockout of Aidos Yerbossynuly on Saturday in Minneapolis.
David Morrell knocked out Aidos Yerbossynuly in the 12th and final round of their 168-pound fight Saturday in Minneapolis.
Here are images from the fight. All photos by Esther Lin of Showtime.
Watch it: David Morrell’s brutal knockout of Aidos Yerbossynuly on Saturday in Minneapolis.
David Morrell delivered one of the more brutal knockouts of the year Saturday in his adopted hometown of Minneapolis, stopping fellow 168-pound contender Aidos Yerbossynuly in the 12th and final round.
The southpaw from Cuba landed a straight left and then finished off his tough, but overmatched Kazakh opponent with a perfect right hook.
You can check it out here:
Watch it: David Morrell’s brutal knockout of Aidos Yerbossynuly on Saturday in Minneapolis.
David Morrell delivered one of the more brutal knockouts of the year Saturday in his adopted hometown of Minneapolis, stopping fellow 168-pound contender Aidos Yerbossynuly in the 12th and final round.
The southpaw from Cuba landed a straight left and then finished off his tough, but overmatched Kazakh opponent with a perfect right hook.
You can check it out here:
David Morrell give his fans a masterclass performance, punctuated by a brutal knockout Saturday in his adopted hometown of Minneapolis.
David Morrell gave his fans a little bit of everything on Saturday in his adopted hometown of Minneapolis.
Boxing? The super middleweight contender, who learned the trade in the Cuban amateur system, outclassed determined, but overmatched Aidos Yerbossynuly almost the entire fight.
Toughness? Yerbossynuly, a tough-as-they-come Kazakh, maintained intense, stifling pressure on Morrell from the opening bell.
Knockout? Oh yes. Morrell seemed to be on his way to a one-sided decision victory when he put his opponent down twice in the 12th and final round, the second time for good. That sent his local supporters into a tizzy and kept him in the title hunt after only eight fights.
The end came 26 seconds before the final bell.
“I’m so excited, man,” he said. “I told everyone at the press conference that the fight is mine. He’s strong … but it’s me, man.”
The loser never gave up, though. In fact, he had a few good rounds when Morrell slowed down mid-fight and allowed Yerbossynuly to push his back to the ropes. However, Morrell then shifted into a boxing mode, fighting on his toes, moving around the ring. And Yerbossynuly couldn’t do anything about it.
All the while Morrell continued to land hard, punishing blows that busted up Yerbossynuly’s face and broke him down. By the 12th round, he was dead tired. And Morrell knew it.
Yerbossynuly might’ve gone down as much from fatigue as Morrell’s straight left early in the round. That wasn’t the case for the second knockdown, which was brutal. Yerbossynuly was hurt so badly that referee Tony Weeks didn’t bother to count.
Instead, Weeks tried to help the stoppage victim to his feet but he started to collapse. At that moment Morrell stopped his celebration and helped Weeks lead Yerbossynuly to his corner.
Indeed, Morrell also gave his fans good sportsmanship, as if there already wasn’t enough to like about him.
He was nothing short of brilliant on his finest night as a professional.
Morrell said going into the fight that he would like to face former two-time titleholder David Benavidez next. That probably won’t happen; Benavidez seems to be on a collision course with another former beltholder, Caleb Plant.
However, Morrell, who holds a secondary WBA title, isn’t far from taking part in a super fight. Performances like the one he turned in on Saturday have a way of leading to big things.
“I want Benavidez,” he said, “but I don’t care. I’m ready for everybody.”
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David Morrell give his fans a masterclass performance, punctuated by a brutal knockout Saturday in his adopted hometown of Minneapolis.
David Morrell gave his fans a little bit of everything on Saturday in his adopted hometown of Minneapolis.
Boxing? The super middleweight contender, who learned the trade in the Cuban amateur system, outclassed determined, but overmatched Aidos Yerbossynuly almost the entire fight.
Toughness? Yerbossynuly, a tough-as-they-come Kazakh, maintained intense, stifling pressure on Morrell from the opening bell.
Knockout? Oh yes. Morrell seemed to be on his way to a one-sided decision victory when he put his opponent down twice in the 12th and final round, the second time for good. That sent his local supporters into a tizzy and kept him in the title hunt after only eight fights.
The end came 26 seconds before the final bell.
“I’m so excited, man,” he said. “I told everyone at the press conference that the fight is mine. He’s strong … but it’s me, man.”
The loser never gave up, though. In fact, he had a few good rounds when Morrell slowed down mid-fight and allowed Yerbossynuly to push his back to the ropes. However, Morrell then shifted into a boxing mode, fighting on his toes, moving around the ring. And Yerbossynuly couldn’t do anything about it.
All the while Morrell continued to land hard, punishing blows that busted up Yerbossynuly’s face and broke him down. By the 12th round, he was dead tired. And Morrell knew it.
Yerbossynuly might’ve gone down as much from fatigue as Morrell’s straight left early in the round. That wasn’t the case for the second knockdown, which was brutal. Yerbossynuly was hurt so badly that referee Tony Weeks didn’t bother to count.
Instead, Weeks tried to help the stoppage victim to his feet but he started to collapse. At that moment Morrell stopped his celebration and helped Weeks lead Yerbossynuly to his corner.
Indeed, Morrell also gave his fans good sportsmanship, as if there already wasn’t enough to like about him.
He was nothing short of brilliant on his finest night as a professional.
Morrell said going into the fight that he would like to face former two-time titleholder David Benavidez next. That probably won’t happen; Benavidez seems to be on a collision course with another former beltholder, Caleb Plant.
However, Morrell, who holds a secondary WBA title, isn’t far from taking part in a super fight. Performances like the one he turned in on Saturday have a way of leading to big things.
“I want Benavidez,” he said, “but I don’t care. I’m ready for everybody.”
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David Morrell vs. Aidos Yerbossynuly: LIVE updates and results, full coverage.
David Morrell stopped fellow super middleweight contender Aidos Yerbossynuly in the 12th and final round at The Armory.
Morrell, who outboxed Yerbossynuly the entire fight, appeared to be on his way to a one-sided decision victory. However, the Cuban put his Kazakh counterpart down twice in the last round to finish him off.
The first knockdown was the result of a straight left from the southpaw early in the round. The knockout resulted from a right hook that hurt a worn out Yerbossynuly so badly that he couldn’t continue.
The official time of the stoppage was 2:34 of Round 12.
You can read a full report here.
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Brian Mendoza of Albuquerque stopped former 154-pound champ Jeison Rosario of the Dominican Republic in the fifth round of their scheduled 10-round 160-pound bout.
Mendoza, who took the fight on short notice, ended the fight with a perfect right uppercut that hurt Rosario and followed with a left as he was going down.
Rosario tried to get up but fell face first into the canvas as he did so, prompting the referee to stop the fight.
The official time was 35 seconds in Round 5.
Mendoza (21-2, 15 KOs) also put Rosario (23-4-1, 17 KOs) down with a left to the body in the second round.
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Middleweight contender Fiodor Czerkaszyn dominated veteran Nathaniel Galimore en route to winning a unanimous decision in a 10-round bout.
The official scores were 97-93, 99-91 and 100-90.
Czerkaszyn (21-0, 13 KOs) outboxed the hard-punching Galimore (22-6-1, 17 KOs) from beginning to end, consistently landing clean shots to every legal target and taking few punches himself.
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David Morrell will face fellow super middleweight contender Aidos Yerbossynuly on Saturday night in Minneapolis (Showtime).
The main portion of the card is set to begin at 9:10 p.m. ET / 6:10 p.m. PT.
Boxing Junkie will post results of the main event and other featured bouts immediately afterward. Simply return to this post when the time comes.
Full coverage – a fight story, photo gallery and analysis – will follow on separate posts the night of the fight and the following day.
Enjoy the fights!
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David Morrell vs. Aidos Yerbossynuly: LIVE updates and results, full coverage.
David Morrell stopped fellow super middleweight contender Aidos Yerbossynuly in the 12th and final round at The Armory.
Morrell, who outboxed Yerbossynuly the entire fight, appeared to be on his way to a one-sided decision victory. However, the Cuban put his Kazakh counterpart down twice in the last round to finish him off.
The first knockdown was the result of a straight left from the southpaw early in the round. The knockout resulted from a right hook that hurt a worn out Yerbossynuly so badly that he couldn’t continue.
The official time of the stoppage was 2:34 of Round 12.
You can read a full report here.
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Brian Mendoza of Albuquerque stopped former 154-pound champ Jeison Rosario of the Dominican Republic in the fifth round of their scheduled 10-round 160-pound bout.
Mendoza, who took the fight on short notice, ended the fight with a perfect right uppercut that hurt Rosario and followed with a left as he was going down.
Rosario tried to get up but fell face first into the canvas as he did so, prompting the referee to stop the fight.
The official time was 35 seconds in Round 5.
Mendoza (21-2, 15 KOs) also put Rosario (23-4-1, 17 KOs) down with a left to the body in the second round.
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Middleweight contender Fiodor Czerkaszyn dominated veteran Nathaniel Galimore en route to winning a unanimous decision in a 10-round bout.
The official scores were 97-93, 99-91 and 100-90.
Czerkaszyn (21-0, 13 KOs) outboxed the hard-punching Galimore (22-6-1, 17 KOs) from beginning to end, consistently landing clean shots to every legal target and taking few punches himself.
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David Morrell will face fellow super middleweight contender Aidos Yerbossynuly on Saturday night in Minneapolis (Showtime).
The main portion of the card is set to begin at 9:10 p.m. ET / 6:10 p.m. PT.
Boxing Junkie will post results of the main event and other featured bouts immediately afterward. Simply return to this post when the time comes.
Full coverage – a fight story, photo gallery and analysis – will follow on separate posts the night of the fight and the following day.
Enjoy the fights!
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Video: David Morrell, Aidos Yerbossynuly on Friday made weight for their super middleweight fight Saturday on Showtime.
David Morrell and Aidos Yerbossynuly on Friday made weight for their super middleweight fight Saturday in Minneapolis, Morrell’s adopted hometown (Showtime).
Morrell weighed 166.5 pounds, 1.5 below the division limit. Yerbossynuly came in at 167.25.
Morrell (7-0, 6 KOs) is coming off a fourth-round knockout of Kalvin Henderson in June, the Cuban native’s fourth consecutive stoppage.
He holds the WBA’s “regular” 168-pound title, which Boxing Junkie doesn’t recognize. Canelo Alvarez is the WBA champion.
Yerbossynuly (16-0, 11 KOs) last fought in September of last year, when he stopped Lennox Allen in 10 rounds. The native of Kazakhstan lives in Las Vegas.
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Video: David Morrell, Aidos Yerbossynuly on Friday made weight for their super middleweight fight Saturday on Showtime.
David Morrell and Aidos Yerbossynuly on Friday made weight for their super middleweight fight Saturday in Minneapolis, Morrell’s adopted hometown (Showtime).
Morrell weighed 166.5 pounds, 1.5 below the division limit. Yerbossynuly came in at 167.25.
Morrell (7-0, 6 KOs) is coming off a fourth-round knockout of Kalvin Henderson in June, the Cuban native’s fourth consecutive stoppage.
He holds the WBA’s “regular” 168-pound title, which Boxing Junkie doesn’t recognize. Canelo Alvarez is the WBA champion.
Yerbossynuly (16-0, 11 KOs) last fought in September of last year, when he stopped Lennox Allen in 10 rounds. The native of Kazakhstan lives in Las Vegas.
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David Morrell’s message to foe Aidos Yerbossynuly: ‘”ou don’t mess with the people of Cuba.”
Aidos Yerbossynuly isn’t intimidated by the background of David Morrell, his opponent Saturday in Minneapolis (Showtime).
Morrell learned the topes in the Cuban amateur system, which has universal respect. That foundation is a key reason he’s fighting at the highest level of the sport even though he has had only seven professional fights.
Yerbossynuly, a Las Vegas-based Kazakh, suggests that we don’t get carried away when it comes to his fellow super middleweight contender.
“We respect the Cubans and their skills,” said Yerbossynuly, who took the fight on short notice when Yoelvis Gomez pulled out with an injury. “But in the pros, there aren’t as many good fighters as in the amateurs.
“Whatever he has learned, I have those same skills. We both have power in both hands, and I’m going to let my fists speak for me. … There is nothing about David Morrell Jr. that concerns me.
“The danger with boxing is that every fighter is coming to hurt you. Every boxer is dangerous. There’s nothing special about him. I think that we are evenly matched fighters but the difference on Saturday night is going to be that I’m the smarter fighter and I want it more.”
Morrell’s reaction to that?
Well, Yerbossynuly’s comments seem to have stoked Morrell’s patriotic fire even though he defected from Cuba and is based in the town that’s hosting the fight on Saturday. He’s so motivated that he has predicted an eighth-round knockout.
“A hundred percent I’m coming for the knockout,” he said. “He’s the one that’s asking for it. It’s going to be for my team and for Cuban boxing. You don’t mess with the people of Cuba. …
“I feel bad for Aidos. He has no idea what’s going on and he doesn’t know anything about boxing history. I’m going to teach him on fight night. I’m taking him to school. He has it coming.”
The fact Yerbossynuly (16-0, 11 KOs) is even getting an opportunity to fight in a main event on Showtime is a career milestone. If he can pull off an upset, he would be in prime position to fight for a world title.
Of course, he’s expecting nothing less than a victory against the WBA’s secondary titleholder. Then he hopes to fight top 168-pound contender David Benavidez and eventually undisputed champion Canelo Alvarez.
He scoffed at the knockout prediction. He suggested that it might be Morrell (7-0, 6 KOs) who ends up being stopped.
“If he’s promising something to his fans, he might have to apologize to them after he loses,” Yerbossynuly said. “I’m definitely coming to stop Morrell in this fight. I trained hard and I’m here to get the belt.
“If I get past David Morrell Jr. on Saturday, then I’d like to fight David Benavidez next. I’ve sparred with Canelo Alvarez before and I respect him. To get that fight, I have to prove myself first. That’s why I want to face Morrell and Benavidez back-to-back.”
Morrell also wants Benavidez in what would be his ninth fight. However, in spite of his prognostication, he insists his focus is on Yerbossynuly.
“I’m excited for my second opportunity fighting on Showtime,” he said. “I hope he’s not too hungry, because I’m not giving him anything to eat on Saturday night. I’m more focused and locked in than ever thanks to [trainer] Ronnie Shields and my whole team.
“I appreciate Aidos stepping up to this fight, but now it’s time to show what I can do. I’m going to show the rest of the division what’s in store for them.”
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