Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán vs. Terence Allan Crawford & Christian M'billi vs. Lester Martínez RBR

Sona Peter "Slink Proper" Akale replaces Marcos Osorio-Betancourt on two days' notice.

Not a bad late sub; he gave Nico Ali Walsh some trouble last year.

 

Mark "Paul Giamatti From Temu" Nelson with a frontrunner for Worst Referee Stoppage of the Year there in Verde TKO4 Akale.

 

Steven Cole Nelson vs. Raiko Santana Martínez, 10 rounds @ super middleweight

 

Round 1

Santana Martínez countering past the Nelson jab and quick lead flash hook with a solid right hand down the pipe. Santana Martínez lands a sharp jab but eats a short uppercut at the same time. Nelson is pinned on the ropes, taking damage, ref jumps in and waves it off!

TKO1!!!

 

That wasn't a great stoppage but honestly it was better than Verde vs. Akale, where they were punching together when the ref inserted himself. Here, there was a very long sequence of Santana Martínez landing (I'm counting now on the slow motion replay) over a dozen shots with So Cold throwing nothing back, and blocking less than half of the shots, getting his jaw jacked. Yeah, nobody to blame but himself. Somewhat quick stoppage, but you can't get hit that much and expect it not to happen.