HERNANDEZ STOPS GARNETT IN TENTH ROUND IN MAIN EVENT OF CHRISTY MARTIN PROMOTIONS’ “MAYHEM IN MUSIC CITY 2”
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Tue, 05 Aug 2025
SATURDAY NIGHT FROM THE FAIRGROUNDS ARENA IN NASHVILLE
EVAN HOLYFIELD COMEBACK CONTINUES, AS HE SCORES EXCITING SECOND-ROUND STOPPAGE OF JEREMIAH ROBINSON
August 3, 2025, Nashville, TN –Victor “Jalapeno” Hernandez (14-0, 12 KOs) used relentless pressure and non-stop punching to wear down and impressively stop Jayvon “Jigsaw” Garnett (10-2, 5 KOs) in the tenth and final round to win the NABA & Junior NABF Featherweight Championships on Saturday night (August 2) from the Fairgrounds Arena in Nashville.
The action was also streamed live on Millions.co.
Fighting in the main event of Christy Martin Promotions’ “Mayhem in Music City 2” event, Hernandez surprisingly dominated the capable Garnett in every minute of every round, firing hard punches to the head and body with non-stop abandon.
The end finally came at 2:23 of the final round, as Referee Duane Edwards rescued the exhausted Garnett while he slowly sank to the canvas.
“I trained just to be hot and spicy,” said a happy Hernandez, post-fight. “You know what happens when you take a bite of a jalapeno and it’s too hot? It burns your ass. He just didn’t know that.
“Anybody that wants to give me an opportunity, get in touch with Christy Martin or Lisa Holewyne,” continued Hernandez. “Whoever wants it, let’s do it. I want them all.”
In the co-featured bout, popular local super lightweight Louui IV Spencer (2-0, 1 KO) of Clarksville, Tennessee, won a wide four-round unanimous decision over Cody Jenkins (0-6) of Culpeper, Virginia.
After getting the better in the first two rounds, Spencer dropped Jenkins with a two-punch salvo to the body in round three and then followed up with a barrage that had Jenkins down again at the end of the frame. A left hook to the body put Jenkins down again in round four, but the multi-sport Virginian tough guy was able to last the distance.
The scores were 40-33 and 40-34 x 2.
Super bantamweight southpaw Yoruba “The Slim Reaper” Moreu made an impressive and successful pro debut by scoring a second-round TKO over 17-fight veteran Ndira “Paco” Spearman of Lavergne, Tennessee.
A former amateur champion from Albuquerque, New Mexico, the skillful Moreu sent Spearman down a total of five times from a mix of powerful right hooks to the head and body in round one. Spearman was down twice more in round two before Referee Duane Edwards indicated he’d finally seen enough at 1:45 of the second.
“I feel like I could have worked better off the jab, but it’s my pro debut,” said Moreu after the fight. “It’s all part of the game. I’ll go back to the gym and fix up my little tweaks and be good.
“I don’t care if you’re big, strong, little, whatever,” said Moreu of his impressive victory. “I’m going to that body. You have to protect that body at all times or I will snatch it, for sure.”
In an entertaining, albeit abbreviated slugfest, super welterweight Evan “Yung Holy” Holyfield (13-1, 9 KOs) of Atlanta scored a second-round stoppage of Jeremiah Robinson (8-6, 8 KOs) of Saint Louis.
Holyfield dropped Robinson with a left hook to the liver late in round one. To his credit, Robinson came out firing in round two and may have briefly stunned Holyfield before Holyfield regained his composure and dropped him again with an uppercut to the pit of the stomach.
Sensing the end was near, Holyfield moved in for the kill with guns blazing late in the round. Referee Anthony Bryant waved it off as Robinson sank to the canvas for a third time. The time of Holyfield’s TKO victory was 2:58 of the second.
In just his second fight since undergoing open-heart surgery, Holyfield expressed his gratitude for even being back in the ring. “Two years ago, if you had asked me would I be in the ring I would have said ‘I don’t know,’ he said. “It’s been a turbulent up and down roller coaster, but here I am.”
Fan-favorite welterweight Hadrian Phillips (2-0, 2 KOs) of nearby Clarksville, Tennessee, made quick work of winless Keith Foreman (0-7-1) of Harlingen, Texas, knocking him out with a two-piece combo at 1:13 of the opening round. “It can’t get much better than that,” said Phillips, post-fight. “I felt good in there and came out and did what I had to do. Boxing is a hard sport and a lonely sport, and I have nothing but love for everyone who supports me.”
In the opening fight of the night, light heavyweight Bryan “King” Goldsby II (2-0, 2 KOs) stayed undefeated with a second-round TKO over “Mr. Composure” El Av Yashar'El (11-41-3, 6 KOs). Goldsby showed good punching power, as Yashar'El was down twice from hard right hands in round one. When Goldsby opened up again in round two, his heavy-handed barrage convinced Referee Anthony Bryant to wave the fight off at 1:46 of the second.
In the four-round “double pro debut” light heavyweight walkout bout, Guy Stanford Jr. of Clarksville, Tennessee, moved to 1-0, 1 KO by stopping Covington, Tennessee’s Jalen Fayne at 30 seconds of round two.
Stanford dropped Fayne with a left hook to the body late in round one and finished him with a follow-up barrage to the body early in round two.
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