By: Sean Crose
Virgil Ortiz was supposed to focus on Saturday’s Golden Boy card in San Antonio, as he was scheduled to tackle Eimantas Stanionis in a battle of rising skills. Ortiz, nonetheless, ended up hospitalized after fainting within the days main as much as the combat, main the match to being properly postponed. Without a headliner, Golden Boy turned to the undefeated Floyd Scholfield within the hopes of turning lemons to lemonade. And, positive sufficient, Scholfield seemed spectacular Saturday evening as he dropped and decisioned the 28-4-1 Haskell Rhodes in a DAZN broadcast foremost occasion. Texas’ Schofield is clearly a fighter to control within the light-weight division.
Indeed, Schofield was in a position to rock his man within the very first spherical. It didn’t get any higher from there for poor Rhodes. After being dominated for spherical after spherical, Schofield despatched him crashing to the mat not as soon as, however twice within the seventh. A brutal shot to the midsection put Rhodes down once more within the eighth. To his credit score, Rhodes was in a position to get again to his ft once more and end the combat. The decide’s playing cards, nonetheless, clearly indicated that Schofield was the winner. He might not have scored a knockout on Saturday, however Shofield impressed nonetheless.
