‘LA FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS 2’: DAVID STEVENS DEFEATS PETR KHAMUKOV BY 10-ROUND UNANIMOUS DECISION
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LONG BEACH, CA – June 20, 2025 – David “Dynamite” Stevens (15-2, 10 KOs) of Reading, PA, got past a determined challenge from Russian Olympian Petr “The Surgeon” Khamukov (13-1, 6 KOs) of Woodland Hills, CA via Labinsk, Russia with a 10-round unanimous decision in the super middleweight main event of the DAZN-televised ‘LA Friday Night Fights 2’ event on Friday night from Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California.
Presented by Paco Presents, Golden Boy Promotions and Robert Garcia’ House of Champions, “LA Friday Night Fights 2” saw Stevens do more to catch the judges’ eyes in an often-frustrating battle between contrasting styles of fighting.
After a quiet first two rounds, the pair began to figure out and time each other in the third, which led to several strong exchanges with Khamukov seemingly getting the better and even briefly stinging Stevens with a left. Stevens returned to have a good round four by picking up his pace and throwing more punches.
The fight then fell into a pattern with a tired-looking Khamukov showing more willingness to mix things up by jumping in and out with short, quick combinations, while the patient Stevens carefully chose his spots to land less frequent, but harder and more noticeable return shots.
In the end, Stevens’ eye-catching work won the favor of the judges by identical 97-93 scores across the board.
“I have to rewatch the tape. I know I made some mistakes and got a little tired in there, but I feel good,” said Stevens. “I don’t feel like I got too tired, but I have to sharpen up on some things. The fight is won in the gym. I have Ronnie Shields training me, he couldn’t be here, so I’ been working with my assistant trainer, Travia Pierce and we’ve been working on the same stuff we did here. I didn’t do it all, but most of it.”
In the night’s eight-round super welterweight co-feature, Leonardo “Leo” Ruiz (16-1, 8 KOs) of San Bernardino won a wide unanimous decision over Jarrod Tennant (9-5, 4 KOs) of Los Angeles.
Returning for the first time since his first career loss, a first-round knockout to Elias Mauricio Haedo last December, Ruiz showed no signs of lasting damage by patiently dismantling Tenant’s fighting style in the first half of the fight and then spending the back half battering him around the ring to little resistance. An expert survivor, the smaller Tennant was never wobbled but also showed no ability to win even a minute of the fight.
The scores were academic at 80-72, 80-72 and 79-73.
“I feel good,” said Ruiz after the fight. “He’s a solid opponent and I take my hat off to him. We went to a decision, and it felt good to come back. I hit my groove in round there. I don’t know what judge gave him a round, maybe the first because I took my time. It is what it is. I’m my hardest critic and I always want to win every round.”
Buena Park, California, super lightweight prospect Juan “El Negro” Sanchez (9-0, 8 KOs) passed a test against better competition with flying colors, as he dominated experienced Colombian veteran Yeis “El Tigre” Solano (15-6, 10 KOs), dropping him four times before scoring a third-round knockout.
Sanchez dropped Solano for a count with a roundhouse right with 40 seconds left in round one but ran out of time while attempting to finish. Solano was down again in round two from a mix of a body shot and tangled feet.
Solano fell twice more in round three before Referee Ray Corona indicated he’d seen enough at 2:50 of the round. Sanchez showed his heavy hands throughout, battering Solano non-stop while his opponent elected to cover up and try to throw the occasional loaded up counter punch. Sanchez suffered a cut on his right eye from an accidental clash of heads shortly before the KO.
“I was just doing what my coach told me to do in camp,” said a happy Sanchez, post-fight. “We came here to get our work. It feels great. Maybe it was destiny because every time since my last fight, I kept mistakenly saying I’m 9-0 with 8 knockouts. Maybe I predicted it.”
In a scintillating six-round super lightweight war between non-stop punching machines, Los Angeles slugger Dorian Mendez (6-0, 2 KOs) stayed unbeaten with a toe-to-toe classic against Jurupa Valley, California via Mexico’s Leonardo Rubalcava (9-1-1, 3 KOs).
With the crowd on their feet throughout, the two warriors fought in a phone booth and neither man ever stopped swinging. Late in round four, Mendez appeared to briefly stun Rubalcava with a surprise right hand fighting off the ropes. To his credit, Rubalcava worked well to the body and appeared to be landing the harder punches.
In a tough fight to judge that neither fighter deserved to lose, the scores were 59-55 Mendez, 59-55 Rubalcava and a deciding card of 59-55 Mendez.
In a four-round super bantamweight scrap, Alexis Alvarado (8-1, 5 KOs) La Puente, California, won an impressive four-round unanimous decision over the “tougher than a $2 steak” southpaw Jose Silva Gonzalez (5-1-1, 4 KOs) of Sparks, Nevada.
After a pair of closely fought opening rounds, won by Alvarado with his smothering activity rate, Alvarado dropped Silva on the seat of his trunks late in round three with a seismic right hand. The resilient Silva somehow managed to survive the bell.
It didn’t get any better for Silva in the last round, as he spent much of the three minutes taking heavy punishment under the watchful eye of Referee Ray Corona. The scores were 40-35, 40-35 and 39-36.
In a four-round battle between two 18-year-old super bantamweights Emiliano Alvarado (8-0, 5 KOs) Los Angeles won a hard-fought unanimous decision over Alejandro Mejia (2-2) of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Making his US fighting debut, Alvarado hurt Mejia briefly with a left hook in an action-packed first round and again in a more dominant round two. Mejia staged an impressive comeback in round three, pushing Alvarado around the ring with relentless combinations. Unfortunately, Referee Jerry Cantu found a way to insert himself into the action in a close-fought round four by abruptly penalizing the out-of-town fighter Mejia for a low blow without sufficient previous warnings, with seconds to go in the fight.
The scores were 39-36, 39-36 and 38-37.
Opening up the broadcast action, San Bernardino super lightweight Daniel Cruz (10-0, 3 KOs) stayed undefeated by scoring a spirited six-round unanimous decision over Delhi, India’s Sachin Rohila (8-4, 2 KOs). The two prospects tore into each other from the start, with Cruz outworking his tough Indian opponent. Both fighters had their moments, but Cruz’s activity rate made the difference in most rounds. The scores were 60-54 59-55 and 59-55.
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