The eyes of the boxing world turned to Madison Square Garden last night for an event dominated by the Irish with the head of 'King' Callum Walsh.
Walsh scored a vicious knockout in the first round in the main event of the evening, although that was not the only main text that took place in New York City.
After he was promised an American debut by Dana White in September, the heavyweight prospect Thomas Carty suffered the first loss of his professional career after taking a knee against his rather considerable opponent.
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Huge favorite suffers shock from region to 400 pounds rival after freak injury
On the way to his American debut, Thomas 'The Bomber' Carty was a really huge favorite; With no less than 98% of the tapology community, 93% of whom predicted a Flush Knock -out victory.
But with about a minute to go in the second round of his fight against Dajuan 'The Punisher' Calloway, who weighed heavier in more than 150 pounds than he, Carty would unexpectedly fall to the Canvas.
Carty grinned with pain while he worked up and hoped in the corner before he told the referee that he was in order to continue.
“His knee nodded, oh he was badly injured,” the commentary team noticed when the action resumed, albeit rather careful because it became clear that Carty had blown out his knee.
10 seconds later 'The Bomber' fell to the Canvas for the second time after trying to trace it around the outside of his 400+LB opponent.
Carty went down for the third time, just when the cloppers sounded.
Between rounds, the Carty team officially threw in the towel.
'They call it, it is scored as a TKO victory for Dajuan Calloway … not the way Thomas Carty wanted to start [his American run] And not the way Calloway wanted to win this fight. “
Thomas Carty loses his unbeaten record (10-1), while Calloway goes to 11-3.
Walsh vs Sutherland Results: three stop settlements, one draw, three decisions
In the main event of the evening, Callum Walsh did what Callum Walsh was generally expected, ie Walkthrough 19-1 Dean Sutherland with relative ease.
'King' only needed one round to score a sensational KO, where a vicious combination was unloaded that defeated Sutherland before he brought it away with a photo-perfect sweep uppercut.
Walsh and Calloway took two of the three KO/TKO victories on the map home; The third was scored by Feargal McCrory, who ended in the eighth round Keenan Carbajal.
- Callum Walsh def. Dean Sutherland, via Round One Ko.
- Emmet Brennan def. Kevin Cronin, via a unanimous decision.
- Feargal McCrory Def. Keenan Carbajal, via round eight ko.
- Cletus Seldin def. Yeis Gabriel Solano, via majority decision.
- Dajuan Calloway Def. Thomas Carty, via TKO retirement (injury).
- Donagh Keary Def. Geral S. Alicea-Romero, via a unanimous decision.
- Sean O'Bradaigh vs Jefferson Christopher Almeida ends in majority drawing.
The next fight by Walsh is expected to take place in Los Angeles in July.
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