Boxing Coverage on Sherdog.comBoxing: Darwin Price KOs Javontae Starks in PBC on NBCSN Main Event
Undefeated junior welterweight prospect Darwin Price on Saturday
continued to impress, as he scored a thrilling seventh-round
knockout of Javontae Starks in the headliner of the latest Premier
Boxing Champions’ PBC on NBCSN event.
Price (11-0, 6 KOs) was in control from the start, used superior speed and more accurate punching to fluster his foe and dropped Starks in the third round with a missile of a right to the head. Starks (13-2, 7 KOs) hung tough and continued to fight, but when he was rocked again in the seventh, he could not recover.
Price drilled his counterpart with another excellent right
upstairs, which turned Starks’ legs to gelatin. Price swarmed and
pounded away at his head and body until the referee finally jumped
in and waived off the mugging at the 1:52 mark. The TKO brought the
crowd inside the Cowboys Dancehall in Houston to its feet, capping
a solid night of action.
In the co-feature, Kent Cruz toppled fellow unbeaten junior welterweight Rickey Edwards via unanimous eight-round decision, and he did so in dominant fashion. Cruz (11-0, 6 KOs) knocked down Edwards in the second round and should have been credited with another knockdown in the same round when Edwards took a knee. The referee thought otherwise.
From there, Edwards (11-1, 3 KOs) tried everything he could to fight back, but he was rocked several more times in the contest. He never had enough firepower to keep Cruz off of him, and in the end, all three judges ruled in Cruz’s favor via tallies of 77-74, 77-73 and 77-73.
Meanwhile, unbeaten super bantamweight prospect David Perez (8-0, 4 KOs) scored an electrifying one-punch knockout of Gustavo Molina in the sixth round. After dropping Molina (12-13, 5 KOs) in the third, he torched him with a perfect right hook to the chin. Molina fell face first and was completely out cold, forcing the referee to immediately stop the bout at the 2:35 mark.
In the opening bout, lightweight Justin Paulido (8-1, 4 KOs) bested Eric Anton (4-4, 1 KO) via six-round unanimous nod. He won with scores of 59-55 on all three official cards.
Price (11-0, 6 KOs) was in control from the start, used superior speed and more accurate punching to fluster his foe and dropped Starks in the third round with a missile of a right to the head. Starks (13-2, 7 KOs) hung tough and continued to fight, but when he was rocked again in the seventh, he could not recover.
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In the co-feature, Kent Cruz toppled fellow unbeaten junior welterweight Rickey Edwards via unanimous eight-round decision, and he did so in dominant fashion. Cruz (11-0, 6 KOs) knocked down Edwards in the second round and should have been credited with another knockdown in the same round when Edwards took a knee. The referee thought otherwise.
From there, Edwards (11-1, 3 KOs) tried everything he could to fight back, but he was rocked several more times in the contest. He never had enough firepower to keep Cruz off of him, and in the end, all three judges ruled in Cruz’s favor via tallies of 77-74, 77-73 and 77-73.
Meanwhile, unbeaten super bantamweight prospect David Perez (8-0, 4 KOs) scored an electrifying one-punch knockout of Gustavo Molina in the sixth round. After dropping Molina (12-13, 5 KOs) in the third, he torched him with a perfect right hook to the chin. Molina fell face first and was completely out cold, forcing the referee to immediately stop the bout at the 2:35 mark.
In the opening bout, lightweight Justin Paulido (8-1, 4 KOs) bested Eric Anton (4-4, 1 KO) via six-round unanimous nod. He won with scores of 59-55 on all three official cards.
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