{"id":154615,"date":"2022-12-11T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/teofimo-lopez-vs-sandor-martin-live-results-from-madison-square-garden\/"},"modified":"2022-12-11T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T11:38:04","slug":"teofimo-lopez-vs-sandor-martin-live-results-from-madison-square-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/teofimo-lopez-vs-sandor-martin-live-results-from-madison-square-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez vs. Sandor Martin – LIVE Results From Madison Square Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK \u2013 Joe Ward worked hard against an aggressive fellow southpaw Saturday night to keep his winning streak intact.<\/p>\n
Ireland’s Ward fought through a cut for more than half of his eight-round light heavyweight fight against France’s Frederic Julan and won their bout by unanimous decision on the Teofimo Lopez-Sandor Martin undercard at Madison Square Garden. Judges Tom Carusone (78-74), Ken Ezzo (79-73) and Eric Marlinski (79-73) all scored their fight for Ward, but it appeared more competitive than the scorecards reflected.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the 29-year-old Ward (8-1, 4 KOs) has won eight straight fights since he has suffered a knee injury and lost his pro debut to Marco Delgado by second-round technical knockout in October 2019 at Madison Square Garden. Julan (12-2, 10 KOs) has lost his last two bouts by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n
Julan seemed to know he was behind on the scorecards and went after Ward during the final round. He couldn’t hurt Ward, though, and their fight went the distance.<\/p>\n
Julan landed an overhand left with just over a minute on the clock in the eighth and final round. A tired Ward merely attempted to keep his distance from an aggressive Julan for the remainder of their fight.<\/p>\n
Ward connected with a right-left combination with just under 10 seconds to go in the sixth round. He also caught Julan with a short right hook just before the bell sounded to end the sixth round.<\/p>\n
A counter right hook by Julan clipped Ward with just under a minute remaining in the fifth round.<\/p>\n
Julan blasted Ward with a straight left hand when there just under 35 seconds to go in the fourth round. Ward took that punch well, but Julan landed another left hand and a right hook several seconds later, which made Ward hold him.<\/p>\n
Julan also opened a cut around Ward’s left eye in the fourth round.<\/p>\n
Ward held Julan for much of the final minute of the second round, but he unloaded a hard combination to Julan’s body just before it ended to get the judges’ attention.<\/p>\n
Ward tried to control the opening round with his jab. He landed a straight left hand as Julan backed into the ropes with just over 30 seconds on the clock in the first round.<\/p>\n
In the bout before Ward won, huge Polish heavyweight Damian Knyba remained unbeaten by stopping Emilio Salas in the second round of a fight scheduled for six rounds.<\/p>\n
Salas’ handlers requested the stoppage while Salas was still standing because he had taken too much punishment in their brief but one-sided fight. Referee Harvey Dock halted the action at 1:50 of the second round.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-7 Knyba, of Wudzyn, Poland, improved to 10-0 and recorded his sixth knockout. Salas (7-4-1, 3 KOs), a southpaw from Yonkers, New York, lost by technical knockout for the third time in his 10-year pro career.<\/p>\n
In the opening fight Saturday night, junior welterweight prospect Delante \u201cTiger\u201d Johnson kept his perfect record intact by stopping Mike Ohan Jr. in the fifth round of their scheduled eight-rounder.<\/p>\n
Cleveland’s Johnson (7-0.5 KOs) unloaded a barrage of power punches after trapping Ohan near a corner barely a minute into the fifth round. Ohan didn’t throw punches back, which caused referee Steve Willis to step between them and stop their fight at 1:29 of the fifth round.<\/p>\n
Keith Idec is a senior writer\/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW YORK \u2013 Joe Ward worked hard against an aggressive fellow southpaw Saturday night to keep his winning streak intact. Ireland’s Ward fought through a cut for more than half of his eight-round light heavyweight fight against France’s Frederic Julan and won their bout by unanimous decision on the Teofimo Lopez-Sandor Martin undercard at Madison …<\/p>\n