By: Sean Crose
The 14-1 Wendy Toussant took on the 13-0 Adreal Holmes Jr Saturday night time in Detroit on the Claressa Shields-Marciela Cornejo undercard. Scheduled for ten, Toussant-Holmes was a junior middleweight affair. The first was one thing of a sense out course of for every fighter. Each man continued to be affected person within the second. Toussant got here alive within the third, firing away fast mixtures. Still, Toussant was docked a degree for hitting behind the warmth within the fifth.
Holmes actually began getting beat up within the sixth…however he managed to maybe pull off the spherical. Toussant was again with a vengeance within the seventh, nevertheless, firing pictures whereas pushing the motion. A significant conflict of heads within the eighth led to Toussant bleeding profusely. The combat was nonetheless allowed to proceed and Holmes went for broke. The referee, nevertheless, correctly stopped the combat because of the lower. Holmes subsequently gained by cut up choice.
