If Ball can sustain this pressure, he’ll soon have a near-insurmountable lead. The issue would then be whether he’d have expended too much energy to survive the later rounds – but there’s not been enough from Ford yet to suggest that he can really trouble Ball. Let’s see if that changes.
They are the final two fights on a stacked card billed as ‘5 vs 5: Matchroom vs Queensberry’, where leading British promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren, once bitter rivals, are putting their respective stables on the line for bragging rights and a reported $3m payday in addition to the fighters’ individual (and undisclosed) purses.
Zhang used that size advantage to bully Wilder and smother him on the ropes. A southpaw, Zhang was able to connect with right hooks that scored time and again as Wilder cocked his vaunted right hand back but rarely let it go.
Of course, we now know that after 1239 days – or the longest injury layoff in UFC history – Pedro would not simply return to that Las Vegas Octagon, but defeat American Ike Villanueva via first round KO.
The tattoo commands attention; it is impossible to ignore. Just as Tyson commanded attention in the why do boxers wear boxing gloves ring with his relentless aggression and unmatched skill, his face tattoo demands respect and admiration, a mark of a true champion.
Good body shot from Hrgovic. He’s starting to go downstairs more now and it’s magic for him. Dubois goes back to his jab and a good right hand. Low blow from Dubois but we’re back to action. OOF. 1-1-2 from Hrgovic and the right hand landed clean. Dubois once again eats it though and returns fire.
«Our team has worked diligently with all parties involved to reschedule this monumental fight to a date that ensures both Jake Paul and Mike Tyson are fully prepared, with equal training time, as well as allowing us to keep the event at AT&T stadium in the midst of the Cowboys season,» MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian said in a statement.
«I fight for those people: all the oppressed, depressed, alcoholics, drug addicts. I fight to give them hope every day so they can wake up in the morning and know there’s somebody out there fighting for us.»
Naam: Tyson Pedro Bijnaam: – Record: 10 – 5 – 0 (UFC 6 – 5 – 0) Geboortedatum: 17-09-1991 Geboorteplaats: Sydney, Australië Nationaliteit: Australisch Lengte: 1.91m (6ft 3in) Gewicht: 93kg (205lb) Divisie: Light-Heavyweight Vecht uit: Sydney, Australië Gym: Lions High Performance Centre Actief: 2013 – 2024 Twitter: @tyson_pedro_
Earlier this month, Jake Paul appeared in social media videos sitting in a tattoo parlor, with the artist applying what seemed like an identical design to the one already synonymous with Mike Tyson. It was quickly revealed to be the same tribal pattern that Tyson has on the left side of his face, a tattoo the former boxer first got in 2003.
At age seven, Zhang and his father moved to downtown Shenqiu County for educational reasons. Zhang later attended Shenqiu’s Huaidian Hui Town No.3 Middle School. His father enrolled him in canoe sprinting lessons in order for him to lose weight. The Zhoukou region was a hotbed of watersports in the 1990s, with Olympic rower Mu Suli, born the same year as Zhang, growing up in a different part of Zhoukou during the 1990s.
Zhang was scheduled to fight Filip Hrgović in an IBF title eliminator on 7 May 2022. However, Hrgović pulled out of the fight on 2 May, after his father died and his training suffered. Scott Alexander was chosen as the replacement on the Canelo Álvarez vs. Dmitry Bivol undercard, with the fight being dropped from the co-main to the undercard. Zhang won the bout via first-round knockout. His fight against Hrgović was rescheduled for 20 August 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the undercard of Oleksandr Usyk vs Anthony Joshua II. On that night, Zhang knocked Hrgović down in the first round with a big right. After a close-fought battle over twelve rounds, the judges awarded the fight to Hrgović with two scores of 115–112 and one of 114–113, in what was described as a «generous» decision by broadcaster Sky Sports after a «bizarre» performance by Hrgović.
Round 6: Dubois takes the lead again but he’s more cautious now. Damage piling up for both men. Night right hand over the top from Dubois but Hrgovic rolls it and lands a sharp uppercut against the ropes as Dubois stepped in.
One potential opponent for Joshua’s next fight, which he hints could take place on 21 September, was the just-vanquished Wilder. Joshua is asked whether he thinks the American’s loss to Zhang spells the end of his career.
The heavyweight division is booming right now. Fury and Usyk put on a show in Saudi Arabia and the rematch should be one of the most anticipated fights of the year. Meanwhile, Joshua has looked strong in his four-fight win streak since losing back-to-back fights to Usyk.
With the victory, Pedro bounces back into the win column after a February unanimous decision loss to Modestas Bukauskas. He has now won three of his most recent four. In defeat, Turkalj has now lost three consecutive bouts to start his UFC tenure.