Boxing Coverage on Sherdog.comLipinets Takes Out Castillo in 7th of PBC on ESPN Main Event
Unbeaten junior welterweight Sergey Lipinets continued to impress
the boxing world on Friday night as he stopped tough veteran Walter
Castillo in the seventh. The Kazakhstani was dominant in the main
event of another Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN bill.
Lipinets (10-0, 8 KOs) was lacerated over the left eye in the fourth but the former amateur champion never let it bother him. Lipinets continued to pummel Castillo’s head and body and while the Nicaraguan continuously fired back and tried to turn the tides, it was of no use. Finally, Lipinets rocked his foe in the seventh and then swarmed him with a barrage of punches, forcing the stoppage.
The TKO came at the 2:45 mark, electrifying the near-capacity crowd inside the Horseshoe Tunica Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Miss. It was the best win of Lipinets’ career thus far; Castillo fell to 26-4-1 with 19 KOs.
In the co-feature, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Tugstsogt Nyambayar improved to 6-0 with his sixth knockout. The featherweight barely broke a sweat as he decimated Rafael Vazquez (16-3, 13 KOs) in the opening frame, dropping him thrice before getting the stoppage in just 84 seconds.
Unbeaten bantamweight prospect David Perez (7-0, 3 KOs) score d a first-round knockdown of Adan Ortiz and it seemed as if the telecast was going to start with a bang. Ortiz (9-2, 8 KOs) hung tough, though, and lasted the allotted six rounds. Perez was dominant until the end, winning a unanimous nod via tallies of 60-53, 59-54 and 58-55. Sherdog.com also had it 60-53.
Lipinets (10-0, 8 KOs) was lacerated over the left eye in the fourth but the former amateur champion never let it bother him. Lipinets continued to pummel Castillo’s head and body and while the Nicaraguan continuously fired back and tried to turn the tides, it was of no use. Finally, Lipinets rocked his foe in the seventh and then swarmed him with a barrage of punches, forcing the stoppage.
The TKO came at the 2:45 mark, electrifying the near-capacity crowd inside the Horseshoe Tunica Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Miss. It was the best win of Lipinets’ career thus far; Castillo fell to 26-4-1 with 19 KOs.
In the co-feature, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Tugstsogt Nyambayar improved to 6-0 with his sixth knockout. The featherweight barely broke a sweat as he decimated Rafael Vazquez (16-3, 13 KOs) in the opening frame, dropping him thrice before getting the stoppage in just 84 seconds.
Unbeaten bantamweight prospect David Perez (7-0, 3 KOs) score d a first-round knockdown of Adan Ortiz and it seemed as if the telecast was going to start with a bang. Ortiz (9-2, 8 KOs) hung tough, though, and lasted the allotted six rounds. Perez was dominant until the end, winning a unanimous nod via tallies of 60-53, 59-54 and 58-55. Sherdog.com also had it 60-53.
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