Charles Martin vs. Raphael Zumbano Love

This headlined an Iron Boy Promosion card from earlier tonight.

IBP streams fights live, free, and puts up full replays. :good

http://new.livestream.com/ironboy/ironboy19

The main event starts an hour in, and the barrage that precipitates the end begins at roughly the ~1:39:00 mark.

 

Prince Charles has now crossed the "prospect threshold", with 20 bouts under his belt, and has done so with an impressive 90% kayo rate.

He is also on a pretty nice run dating back to mid-2013, when he was last stretched the distance by then-unbeaten Vincent Thompson - since racking up nine consecutive stoppages, all early, some over recognizable names. In under two years Martin has popped three cherries (Thompson, Glendy Hernandez, and Alexander Flores whom many actually favored to beat Martin) and has destroyed known quantities like former prospect Joey 'Polish Thunder' Dawejko, brawler Damon "Bulldog" McCreary who lasted the distance with Ali Mansour and one round longer with Deontay Wilder than with Martin, another Wilder victim in Kertson Manswell, and now Zumbano Love who lasted twelve with Shannon Briggs.

 

Gingerly by whose standards though?

His opposition twenty fights in trumps all the stiffs Wilder had fought at the same point.

FFS, when he fought Manswell & McCreary in his 24th and 25th bout, those were the best wins of Wilder's career. Martin has already dealt comparably with both in his eighteenth and nineteenth and they weren't his best (Thompson/Flores/Dawejko are)

Nothing great on his record so far, no, but some of those guys do have power and many of them had massive size advantages over him (Flores, Hernandez, Beale, Zumbano Love, Pedro, Manswell, and Barron all standing 6'4" or higher...Martin, while powerfully built, is closer to only six foot even himself)

 

Eddie was actually begging to get in with Martin on this exact date. (er, yesterday's exact date since technically now we are past midnight and into March - Chambers had asked for Martin on February 28th...)

Probably too soon for a Chambers, though. Wise move by Martin's team declining that offer, having never been in with anyone half as slick as that. (most of Martin's opponents have been lumbering giants and kill-or-be-killed chinny punchers - so really nothing even remotely like Fast Eddie)

 

Kind of silly of him, and I say that as someone who is a fan of Eddie's. Kind of a bad look calling out someone as green as Martin who's yet to ever face a real boxer. It would be fish in a barrel for Chambers, just a cheap way to snatch a glittery zero.

 

:rofl:rofl