In the seventh, Mansour picked up the pace, mauling King on the inside as the local fans cheered him. He looked to close the show, but King, of Perris, California, was Mansour’s biggest step up in competition as a pro, and he wasn’t going away easily. By the eighth round, King was clearly out of the fight, but he appeared to make a decision that he wasn’t going to be stopped. Despite the loss, King earned something of a moral victory by hanging in to hear the final bell.
