Son of Dark Destroyer! 20-0 Conor Benn Brutally Kayos Chris Algieri In Liverpool
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Liverpool, UK (December 12th, 2021)– It was a family celebration inside the ring for father and son as undefeated welterweight contender Conor Benn scored a British highlight reel knockout in the main event of a ten-bout card at Echo Arena in Liverpool, United Kingdom, on Saturday, December 11, 2021. Benn, now 20-0 with 13 knockouts, Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom, scored a fourth-round knockout of former World Boxing Organisation World Super Lightweight champion Chris Algieri, 25-4 with nine knockouts, Huntington, New York. Algieri had won four comeback fights in a row at welterweight after getting stopped in 2016 by Errol Spence Jr., but his trip to Great Britain and his second comeback bout in two and a half years, was ill advised.
Algeri, a converted martial arts world champion and accurate technical fighter, wound up on the canvas near the end of the second round in a freak somersault flash knockdown. Benn had apparently landed a forearm to the neck of Algieri, who tripped over Benn’s feet and went flying round and round somersault style through the ropes, and got immediately back up. Scored as a knockdown because Benn threw a punch of some kind, it appeared to be an off balance fall. Algieri was unhurt and his fall did not affect the outcome of the bout.
Algieri had a tight upraised arms defense, and both Algieri and Benn dropped the left during defensive lulls at times. What happened near the end of the fourth round in an otherwise technically close bout was Benn simply spotted and exploited a discovered Algieri defensive hole. With Algieri along the ropes, Benn tagged him with a straight left which got through Algieri’s upraised left and right hand guard with split second timing. Algieri did adjust to protect against the defensive flaw, and moments later, Benn got through with the same straight left, but followed it with a right to the chin. Algieri, already caught with the straight left, did not have sufficient time to react when the right hand followed, and pitched forward face first to the canvas knocked out for the ten count. Benn was also in process of throwing a left hook, but pulled it from striking the falling unconscious Algieri (much like Muhammad Ali pulled a similar punch in progress at falling George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire, as he knocked Foreman out in the eighth round to regain the world heavyweight title in October 1974). “The Dark Destroyer” Nigel Benn, immediately entered the ring for the father and son celebration. Whether son fights the current world welterweight champions, Terence Crawford, Errol Spence Jr., or Yordenis Ugas, in UK remains to be seen in 2022.
Result: Conor Benn KO 4 Chris Algieri, Welterweights (2:58). Benn retains World Boxing Association Continental Welterweight title. Referee: Bob Williams. Algieri down in second.
Co-feature: Katie Taylor def. Firuza Sharipova, 10 rounds, for Taylor’s WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF women’s lightweight titles — Taylor won a unanimous decision with scores of 98-92, 97-92, 96-93. It wasn’t a pretty fight and Sharipova gave her a tough time, even as a less regarded mandatory challenger.
Robbie Davies Jr. def Henry Lundy, 10 rounds, for vacant WBA Continental junior welterweight title — Davies knocked out Lundy in the second round.
Joe Cordina def. Miko Khatchatryan, 10 rounds, for WBA junior lightweight title — Cordina wins a unanimous decision with scores of 100-90, 98-92, 98-92
Peter McGrail def Engel Gomez, 10 rounds, featherweight — McGrail knocked out Gomez at 2:18 in the second round.
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