Eric Priest went the eight-round distance for the second straight struggle.
A a lot stronger efficiency was provided this time round, because the unbeaten middleweight pounded out a majority determination win over Simon Madsen. A fair rating of 76-76 was overruled by playing cards of 80-72 and 79-73 for the 24-year-old Priest of their DAZN opener Saturday night from Commerce On line casino in Commerce, California.
A lot of the struggle was spent at shut quarters. Priest was decided to make a press release after being disillusioned together with his efficiency in a Might 27 eight-round, unanimous determination over Ricardo Villalba. The unbeaten middleweight—initially from Wichita Falls, Texas who now lives and trains in Los Angeles—went straight at Madsen with proper uppercuts and arduous physique pictures.
Madsen was dedicated all through the struggle to throw and land his left hook downstairs. The 28-year-old middleweight was issued arduous warnings in rounds two and three for main together with his head. Priest made it troublesome for the Cancun-based Danish boxer to keep away from the tactic as he stood straight in entrance of his foe and loaded up with proper palms upstairs.
Madsen roared again with a left hook upstairs throughout two-way motion in spherical 4. Priest reset and scored with a lead left hook and looping proper hand earlier than he focused the physique. Priest adjusted to Madsen’s tried smothering techniques and landed a proper uppercut from lengthy vary in spherical 5. Neither boxer veered from the unique script in a aggressive spherical six.
Priest continued to benefit from the edge in every spherical however didn’t totally honor his nook’s directions to win extra convincingly as Madsen remained within the struggle each step of the way in which.
Madsen dropped his second in a row as he fell to 13-2 (10KOs). The bout was his first since a ten-round determination defeat to unbeaten Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams final December 3 in Glendale, Arizona.
Priest superior to 11-0 (7KOs) in his second win since he signed with Golden Boy Promotions earlier this spring.
Headlining the present, unbeaten light-weight contender William Zepeda (28-0, 24KOs) faces former title challenger Mercito Gesta (34-3-3, 17KOs) in a scheduled 12-round bout.
Jake Donovan is a senior author for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox
