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Kerman Lejarraga vs Jack Flatley – Results & Post-Fight Report

Kerman Lejarraga made a successful first defence of his European super middleweight title after knocking out Jack Flatley whilst Campbell Hatton scored his first professional knockout.

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Paul Mason
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Kerman Lejarraga made a successful first defence of his European super middleweight title after knocking out Jack Flatley in round nine. Photo Credit: Matchroom Boxing.
Kerman Lejarraga made a successful first defence of his European super middleweight title after knocking out Jack Flatley in round nine. Photo Credit: Matchroom Boxing.

Spanish hardman Kerman Lejarraga defended his European super welterweight title in front of his adoring fans in Bilbao, as he knocked out the resilient Jack Flatley in nine rounds.

Lejarraga was making the first defence of the vacant title that he claimed in his last fight, a tight technical decision win against Dylan Charrat, but started as a heavy favourite against Bolton’s Flatley, a former English champion who was having just his second contest in nearly two years.

Lejarraga wasted little time getting on the front foot, backing Flatley up off a stiff jab, but the challenger inched his way in, only to be put down by a ramrod left jab that stiffened his legs with seconds to go in the opener. Flatley rose on jelly legs, and the bell came to his rescue. The second saw more jabs that dipped the Englishman’s legs, but Flatley was brave, putting together some decent work in the face of constant fire from Lejarraga.

 

After another bruising third, Flatley was slow to come off his stool to begin the fourth, but he enjoyed his best round to date, cutting the home fighter on his right eye and landing with some accurate blows. Flatley bossed most of the fifth too, but Lejarraga rallied to finish the frame the stronger. The sixth and seventh were close rounds, but Lejarraga was spiteful with every punch he threw, the eighth saw him land a solid left hook that dipped Flatley’s knees, and a right hand over the top had the Boltonian on the canvas for a second time, and this time he was sapped of energy, bravely beating the count and surviving the round. The end was nigh, and a clinical single right hand in the ninth left Flatley flat on his back, with the count not required, as his brave challenged ended.

 

Hyde lightweight, Campbell Hatton had a much more low-key assignment, and it was much needed, with the son of the legend turning in a much more assured performance than previously seen, as he blew away Hungary’s Attila Csereklye in two rounds to score his first early win. Csereklye was dropped twice in the opener, with body shots that Hatton’s dad Ricky would have been proud of doing the damage. Csereklye made it to round two, but was holding at every opportunity, and another body shot felled him at the end of the round, with the journeyman unable and unwilling to beat the count.

 

Damian Biacho defended his Spanish super middleweight title for the first time, as Guillermo Rivero was pulled out at the end of round seven. Rivero was dropped heavily with a left uppercut in the third, and he was on unsteady legs for the remainder of the round. The challenger was brave, but was decked twice more in round six, one with a cuffing right hand, and the other a body shot right at the end of the frame. A chopping left hook made it four knockdowns for Biacho right on the bell to end the seventh, and Rivero’s corner wisely pulled their man out of action.

Damian Biacho defended his Spanish super middleweight title for the first time successfully against Guillermo Rivero. Photo Credit: Matchroom Boxing.
Damian Biacho defended his Spanish super middleweight title for the first time successfully against Guillermo Rivero. Photo Credit: Matchroom Boxing.

Jonathan Alonso wore down an exhausted Mohamed El Marcouchi in their super lightweight meeting, before taking an eight round decision win. Three scores of 80-72 reflected the Dominican born Spaniard’s dominance.

At flyweight, Las Palmas based former amateur starlet, Samuel Carmona, made a spectacular statement with a first round stoppage of Mexico’s Luis Fernando Villa Padilla. Carmona landed with a body shot that took the wind out of Padilla’s sails, and he couldn’t recover. Carmona opened up with several unanswered shots, and the referee jumped in, Padilla was stopped on his feet.

 

Middleweight Jhon Jader Oregon improved to 9-0, and inflicted the first defeat of Wales’ Gerome Warburton’s career with a six round points win, by scores of 59-56, 59-55 and 59-54.

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