Madrimov underweight surgeries<\/a> to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder and a torn meniscus in his left knee following his loss to Ortiz (24-0, 22 KOs). He also was dealing with the effects of respiratory bronchitis and pneumonia in that bout. <\/p>\nMadrimov felt much healthier Saturday night, though it didn\u2019t necessarily show in his uninspiring performance.<\/p>\n
The Dominican Republic\u2019s Salazar, 32, previously lost to Kevin Johnson by eighth-round knockout in their junior welterweight bout in May 2021.<\/p>\n
Omari Jones Improves To 5-0<\/p>\n
Before Madrimov\u2019s victory, dynamic American prospect Omari Jones dealt Jerome Baxter his first professional defeat.<\/p>\n
Jones, a 23-year-old 2024 Olympic bronze medalist from Orlando, moved smoothly and again displayed poise while picking apart Pittsburgh\u2019s Baxter (7-1, 3 KOs) with overhand rights, left hooks and jabs. Jones (5-0, 4 KOs) went the distance for the first time, but he was thoroughly impressive on his way to winning their junior middleweight match by the same score, 60-53, according to judges Tim Cheatham, John McCarthy and Steve Weisfeld.<\/p>\n
A left hook by Jones buzzed Baxter about 55 seconds into their fight. Jones tried to finish him, but Baxter recovered, temporarily anyway.<\/p>\n
Jones\u2019 jab sent Baxter to the canvas with 50 seconds to go in the opening round. Baxter recovered again, though, and made it to the second round.<\/p>\n
Jones didn\u2019t drop Baxter again, but he seemed to buzz Baxter several times during the ensuing five rounds.<\/p>\n
Zaquin Moses Remains Unbeaten<\/p>\n
Junior lightweight prospect Zaquin Moses dominated Leandro Medina and won by unanimous decision in the six-round bout before Jones\u2019 win.<\/p>\n
Moses, a cousin of Shakur Stevenson, dropped the game Argentinean in the fourth round and cruised to a shutout on the cards of judges Kermit Bayless, Max De Luca and Lisa Giampa. They all scored the fight 60-53 for Moses, a 20-year-old southpaw from Newark, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
The taller, faster, sharper Moses (6-0, 3 KOs) continually caught Medina (7-3-1, 4 KOs) to the head and body and had little difficulty dealing with the persistent pressure.<\/p>\n
A right hook by Moses dropped Medina 25 seconds into the fourth. Medina, who was stopped in the second round by Deric Davis (9-0, 9 KOs) two bouts before he met Moses, got up quickly and remained upright for the remainder of their one-sided fight.<\/p>\n
Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israil Madrimov\u2019s supposed tune-up fight didn\u2019t unfold as planned Saturday night. The Ring\u2019s third-ranked junior middleweight contender went…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-436915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-news","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}