Miami, FL – Jon ‘Bones’ Jones’ surprised ringside response – fingers on head, mouth open in shock – spoke for everybody who witnessed Yoel ‘Soldier of God’ Romero’s thunderous first-round KO ultimately evening’s Soiled Boxing Championship inaugural occasion in Miami, FL.
The MMA celebrity was considered one of a number of large names of the fight sports activities world who had obtained an invite to the closed-door launch occasion for the battle business’s hottest new promotion, with Paige van Zant and heavyweight boxing contender Jarrell Miller additionally noticed ringside through the occasion.
Romero was introduced because the shock headliner for the cardboard simply 24 hours earlier than the occasion happened. He confronted Duane Crespo, a US Marines veteran who fought professionally in Muay Thai and MMA earlier than just lately gravitating to the PowerSlap promotion owned by UFC president Dana White.
Sparks flew shortly within the heavyweight bout and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than it was throughout: a superman punch from Romero staggered Crespo backwards throughout the ring earlier than a sequence of follow-up blows led to an overhand left which slumped Crespo to the canvas.
The stoppage was the fifth KO win on the night’s eight-fight card, with three bouts ending the primary spherical and two within the second. Among the many different finishes, UFC veteran Fabio Cherant was completed within the first spherical of his heavyweight bout with Rob Perez whereas GLORY Kickboxing veteran Anvar Boynazarov scored a second-round stoppage.
“I informed everybody this was going to be one thing particular and god rattling I used to be not unsuitable. I knew these guidelines would make for loopy fights. Each single considered one of them was a banger. Issues received soiled in there for actual. We’ve labored tremendous arduous on this for a very long time now and I couldn’t be happier with how this occasion turned out. I’m 100% optimistic now that battle followers are going to like this,” mentioned ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry, Chief Violence Workplace at Soiled Boxing Championship.
Soiled Boxing CEO Adam Kovacs added, “This was certainly the best battle promotion debut in fight sports activities historical past! The ring, the principles, the ambiance, the fights – the whole lot was completely electrical. It was an unbelievable evening. That Yoel Romero end, holy sh-t. That gave everybody goosebumps. It wasn’t simply large names from battle world ringside, we had lots of people from a number of totally different business sectors and we’re already having some very attention-grabbing conversations within the aftermath of this non-public present,”
Soiled Boxing Championship is the brainchild of ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry and his enterprise companions Adam Kovacs (former Karate Fight President), serial entrepreneur Josh McClean and the achieved Kawa brothers of First Spherical Administration.
Saturday evening’s occasion happened behind closed doorways in entrance of a specially-selected group of invitees from throughout the sports activities, finance and broadcast world. Movies from the occasion shall be launched to the official Soiled Boxing Championship social media channels within the coming days, commencing with Romero’s headline bout.
Full Outcomes:
Yoel Romero (CUB) def. Duane Crespo (USA), KO, R1
Heavyweight Bout, Essential Occasion
Solomon Renfro (USA) def. Jeremiah Truhlar (USA), Unanimous Choice, R3
Welterweight Bout (170 lbs)
Rob Perez (USA) def. Fabio Cherant (USA), KO, R1
Heavyweight Bout
Maike Linhares (BRA) def. Eddie Perez Bruno (USA), Unanimous Choice, R3
Catchweight Bout, 160 lbs
Anvar Boynazarov (UZB) def. Thiago Belo (BRA), KO, R2
Featherweight Bout (145 lbs)
Corey Jackson (USA) def. Chris Burton (USA), KO, R2
Light-weight Bout (155lbs)
Claudia Zamora (USA) def. Monica Medina (USA), KO, R1 (Physique Shot)
Bantamweight Bout (135 lbs)
Guilherme Bastos (BRA) def. Tyler Scott (USA), Choice, R4 Further Spherical
Welterweight Bout (170 lbs)
Roberto Villa is the CEO, Founder, Government Author, Senior Editor of FightBook MMA. Has a ardour for Fight Sports activities and in addition a podcast host for Sitting Ringside. He’s additionally a former MMA fighter and Kickboxer.
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