Frank Warren’s newest prospect makes a name for himself in Riyadh Season’s first ever fight Stateside

SANTA MONICA — Queensberry Promotions founder Frank Warren is exhibiting he nonetheless has an eye fixed for expertise as his firm’s newest signing, Nathan Lugo, scored a nasty second-round stoppage win Wednesday on Santa Monica’s pier in Los Angeles County, California.

After strolling to the ring dressed as Deadpool, Lugo’s tremendous middleweight fight towards Ray Corona was the first-ever Riyadh Season occasion in the United States, and the 20-year-old made it one to recollect because the opening spherical was painful, bruising, and bloody.

Lugo threw most of his photographs with unhealthy intentions from his stocky body, hammered Corona with six-punch mixtures, and despatched him again to his nook on the finish of the spherical bleeding from his mouth and nostril.

With a thudding jab that he rammed into Corona’s jaw, brutal physique photographs that his opponent will really feel for days to come back, and clubbing photographs to the top, Lugo appeared eager to shut the present early — but, that exuberance got here at a slight price, as he’d depart himself open to counter photographs, though he comfortably received the opener.

Corona tried to fight his method out of bother by beginning the second spherical laborious and quick however didn’t hold a guard that was sturdy sufficient to dam Lugo’s greatest photographs.

Instead, Lugo punched his method between Corona’s gloves, saved cracking him with hooks, and, after continued strain, one laborious proper hand in a three-punch sequence was sufficient for referee Rudy Barragan to wave the competition off for good. It was over.

“Great stoppage win by Nathan Lugo,” mentioned Warren on X, the social media web site previously often known as Twitter. “Look forward to watching him develop!”

Elsewhere on the three-fight card which Boxing News attended midweek, was Shakhram Giyasov’s cut up choice win over Miguel Parra, and Marc Castro’s victory towards George Acosta by way of technical choice.

The fights aired for free on Matchroom Boxing and DAZN’s YouTube channels.