JOSH WARRINGTON KEEPS UNBEATEN RECORD WITH EASY WIN OVER JOEL BRUNKER
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 06 Sep 2015
Josh Warrington retained his Commonwealth featherweight title with a masterful points victory over Joel Brunker to the delight of his hometown fans at the First Direct Arena in England.
Sky Sports in London reported that Warrington rarely wasted a punch during his unanimous decision victory, with all three judges handing him shutout scores of 120-108 after an explosive opener in which Brunker marched straight for the local man and the pair exchanged crisp hooks. Warrington refused to let Brunker gain an early foothold and answered with fierce rights to head and body.
Both fighters continued to battle for the centre of the ring in the second and Warrington briefly forced Brunker on the back foot with a ferocious flurry of punches. The Aussie continued to chug forward, but was walking into sharp counters.
It was similar to Warrington?s last fight on April 11 when he scored a near shutout win over Filipino Dennis ?The Scorpion? Tubieron.
A game Tubieron showed no real sting in his punches and lost a one-sided twelve round decision to the undefeated Warrington who earned a world title shot with his victory in a title eliminator in which Warrington grabbed the WBC International featherweight title before some 10,000 ecstatic hometown fans in Leeds.
All three judges turned in identical scorecards of 119-109 which meant they gave Tubieron only one round.
Sky Sports in its blow by blow account said Warrington who started aggressively looked bigger, stronger and sharper and connected with some crisp punches capped by a cracking left-right combination to the body and then to the temple that set the tone early in the fight although Tubieron sneaked in two uppercuts.
Warrington continued to wear down Tubieron with solid body shots and when the British fighter connected with a big right hand that sent Tubieron stumbling into the ropes before landing a flurry of punches, somehow Tubieron stayed on his feet and was not helped by a timekeeper?s error which seemed to add on an extra 30 seconds.
Tubieron went down in the final round but it was a slip caused by his weariness.
When the bell sounded at the end of the round both men embraced while the fans gave Tubieron a round of applause for simply surviving the onslaught.
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