Evan Holyfield had the rudest awakening of his nascent skilled profession.
In a stunner, unheralded, Missouri-based journeyman Jurmain McDonald stopped the extremely regarded Holyfield, the son of Evander Holyfield, within the second spherical of six-round junior middleweight contest on the Sergey Kovalev-Tervel Pulev Triller Struggle Membership undercard Saturday evening on the Kia Discussion board in Inglewood, California.
Within the second spherical, McDonald unloaded an overhand proper that dropped Holyfield face first on the canvas. Referee administered a depend earlier than waiving the combat off as Holyfield struggled to get to his ft.
The beforehand undefeated Holyfield, an enormous betting odds favourite, was anticipated to dispatch McDonald with relative ease. Holyfield, a local of Atlanta, made his skilled debut in 2019 to a lot promising acclaim.
The 24-year-old, whose report now stands at 9 wins towards lone loss, with six knockouts, breezed via the vast majority of his opposition for a lot of his skilled profession.
The knockout marked probably the most spectacular win for the 32-year-old McDonald, who improves to 7-5, with 3 knockouts.
Within the earlier bout, Fernando Vargas Jr., the oldest son of former two-division titleholder Fernando Vargas, stored his undefeated report intact with a crushing first-round stoppage of Terrance Jarmon in a junior middleweight bout set for six rounds.
The official time was 0:36 of the opening spherical.
The hard-punching southpaw dropped Jarmon 3 times, all courtesy of his left hand.
The primary knockdown occurred when Jarmon was on the ropes; Vargas related on a straight left that bounced off Jarmon’s brow.
The second knockdown was from a looping left that related across the left ear of Jarmon.
The third knockdown got here from a straight left down the pipe that compelled Jarmon to drop to his knee. Jarmon shook his head because the referee referred to as a halt to the bout.
Vargas Jr. improves to 6-0, with 6 KOs.
Within the previous bout, light-weight prospect Amado Vargas, the center son of Fernando Vargas, notched a unanimous resolution over Anel Dudo in a four-round junior light-weight bout.
All three judges scored the bout 39-36 for the 21-year-old Vargas.
Vargas improves to 4-0, with 2 KOs.