Video: Yoel Romero scores violent knockout at Mike Perry’s Soiled Boxing Championship inaugural occasion

Yoel Romero nonetheless is harmful at 47, and he confirmed it in the primary occasion of Mike Perry’s Soiled Boxing Championship occasion on Saturday.

After former UFC fighter and BKFC star Perry unveiled plans for his personal promotion earlier this yr, Soiled Boxing Championship placed on its inaugural card Friday with a non-public occasion in Miami that was barely promoted and didn’t stream on-line.

The likes of UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones, Energy Slap’s Paige VanZant and extra had been ringside for the eight-fight card, which encompasses a ruleset that permits punches and elbows from the clinch, in addition to strikes on a downed opponent.

Former UFC and Bellator title challenger Romero headlined, and he shortly dismantled an overmatched Duane Crespo, who folded after an enormous punch early within the opening spherical of the heavyweight contest.

It was Romero’s first fight sports activities bout since he defeated Thiago Santos at a PFL occasion in February, and he’s disappeared from the scene in current months. He re-emerged trying in ridiculous form for the bout with Crespo, and proved he nonetheless packs a heck of a punch with the highlight-reel knockout.

“I instructed everybody this was going to be one thing particular and goddamn I used to be not mistaken,” Perry mentioned of the occasion in a press launch. “I knew these guidelines would make for loopy fights. Each single one among them was a banger. Issues received soiled in there for actual. We’ve labored tremendous laborious on this for a very long time now and I couldn’t be happier with how this occasion turned out. I’m 100% optimistic now that combat followers are going to like this.”

Take a look at full outcomes from Soiled Boxing Championship under:

• Yoel Romero def. Duane Crespo by way of knockout – Spherical 1
• Solomon Renfro def. Jeremiah Truhlar by way of unanimous choice
• Rob Perez def. Fabio Cherant by way of knockout – Spherical 1
• Maike Linhares def. Eddie Perez Bruno by way of unanimous choice
• Anvar Boynazarov def. Thiago Belo by way of knockout – Spherical 2
• Corey Jackson def. Chris Burton by way of knockout – Spherical 2
• Claudia Zamora def. Monica Medina by way of knockout – Spherical 1
• Guilherme Bastos def. Tyler Scott by way of choice