PBC on FS1: Lipinets Knocks Out Ghvamichava in 5th

A devastating body shot sealed the victory by #TKO for Sergey Lipinets in the main event on #PBConFS1https://t.co/ZMvNEQO636

— PBC (@premierboxing) March 16, 2016

Welterweight prospect Sergey Lipinets impressed yet again with another sensational outing, this time against a tough, durable Georgian contender in Levan Ghvamichava. Lipinets took his time against his taller, rangier foe, but the result was still the same: another win to remain unbeaten.

Ghvamichava was no slouch in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions’ latest edition of Toe-To-Toe Tuesdays on Fox Sports 1. He gave as much as he took against the favored Moscow resident and he wound up landing more punches in the contest. Though “The Wolf” trailed on the cards going into the fifth - and eventual final – round, he kept everything close and kept Lipinets honest.

However, a thudding overhand right to the forehead rocked Ghvamichava (16-2-1, 12 KOs) near the midway point of the fifth and when Ghvamichava backed into the ropes, Lipinets unleashed a hellacious left hook to the body. Ghvamichava collapsed a few seconds later and remained on his gloves and knees while referee Ed Collantes counted him out, a grimace of agony plastered across his face while his head trainer Virgil Hill shouted for him to get up.

Ghvamichava couldn’t find the strength to climb back to his feet; the end came officially at 1:40 of the frame, electrifying the crowd crammed inside the Robinson Rancheria Resort and Casino, Nice, Calif. The win allowed Lipinets, a former champion kickboxer, to rise to 9-0 with his seventh pro knockout.

Unbeaten super middleweight prospect Sergey Derevyanchenko dominated late replacement Mike Guy before finally stopping him in the eighth. Derevyanchenko, a 2008 Olympian for his native Ukraine, delivered a plethora of punches to Guy’s body and followed them up with sporadic shots to the head, but Guy, who took the fight on less than a week’s notice, was resilient and never stopped coming forward.

In the end, Derevyanchenko (8-0, 5 KOs) was too strong as his lethal body attack wilted the Inglewood, Calif. fighter. Guy was felled twice in the final of eight scheduled rounds but he tried his best to stay afloat until the end. However, after a few more punches bounced off his head when he beat the count for the second time, Guy (8-2-1, 4 KOs) had to be rescued by referee Michael Margado. The official time of the TKO was 2:24.

Rising junior welterweight prospect Kevin Watts looked fabulous in his national television debut as he opened the PBC on FS1 telecast with a fifth-round knockout of Michael Chudecki. Watts, from Los Angeles, opened a cut over his foe’s left eye in the fourth and then rocked him with an errant left hook in the fifth. Chudecki, who is from Poland but currently lives and trains in Las Vegas, stumbled into the ropes once he was tagged. From there, Watts floored him with a perfect right-left-right to the head.

Chudecki (11-2-1, 3 KOs) was able to beat the count, but he was in survival mode for a solid minute before Watts, who was gunning for the knockout, finally hit him with one too many clean shots. Collantes had no choice but to stop the mugging, officially ending the fight at 2:01 of the fifth to give Watts (11-0) his fourth pro stoppage.