Ebanie Bridges undercard fighter was DQ’d after launching opponent out of ring
A boxer on the undercard of Ebanie Bridges‘ world title struggle was as soon as disqualified for launching his opponent out of the ring.
Bridges makes her highly-anticipated boxing return in opposition to Miyo Yoshida on Saturday night time in San Francisco, California. The IBF bantamweight champion will look to placed on a present after a year-long absence, having overwhelmed Shannon O’Connell with a damaged hand final December.
But the Blonde Bomber is not going to be the one supply of leisure on the struggle schedule. Montana Love additionally takes on Liam Paro in a 12-round junior welterweight struggle at Chase Center.
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Those unfamiliar with Love by identify may know him because the fighter who infamously flipped his final opponent out of the ring. The American was heading in direction of a defeat when he confronted Steve Spark in November 2022.
Love, having been knocked down within the second and suffered a nasty reduce above the attention from a headbutt, obtained tangled in a clinch with Spark within the sixth spherical. But in stunning scenes, the 28-year-old drove his opponent in direction of the ropes, flipping Spark excessive rope and out of the ring.
Spark rose to his toes instantly after taking the tumble and checked out his rival in confusion. But regardless of Spark climbing again into the ring to proceed the bout, referee David Fields disqualified Love, handing him the primary defeat of his profession.
Both the followers and the 2 fighters have been left disenchanted by the underwhelming ending, with Spark even claiming he was “devastated” regardless of ending up victorious.
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“Thank you to Cleveland for the hospitality,” mentioned the Australian. “My job is to fight, and this has changed my life. I’m devastated how it ended. I got the early knock down and I was fighting with my whole heart, it was growing into a great fight, but we didn’t want it to end this way.”
“He was using dirty rough house tactics all night and I pushed him off me, I didn’t lift him up or throw him out of the ring. We wanted him to tire out and catch him later on, and that’s where it was going. I want to do it again, he can’t outbox me or outfight me, let’s do it again.”
Love, from Cleveland Ohio, will hope his upcoming struggle ends in much less controversial trend. Opponent Paro, additionally an Australian, is at present undefeated with 23 wins to his identify.