Post by Tractorpull on Jun 1, 2018 13:09:30 GMT -6
TESS VALMORE
The May Asylum PPV is in the books and it all about one name. Krysten Ritter is a 36 year old lightweight who had five fights in her career and had never won one. This was her fourth visit to the Asylum. In the Boxing World’s lightweight rankings she was list at 203. Her opponent was Gemma Arterton, a former lightweight champion, who occupied the number five slot in the rankings. The matchup was ludicrous. Arterton who had nothing to gain in the bout and could end it anytime she wanted. This was nothing more than a stay busy fight. A training episode in front of crowd. The fight shouldn’t have gone three rounds. It went seven. A hand was raised in victory. Shockingly it wasn’t Arterton’s. It was Ritters, who pulled biggest upset in years, I don’t see any possible upset the rest of the year that can beat this. Arterton was in the lead at the end of five. Ritter surprisingly decked Arterton in the sixth. In the last 30 seconds of the seventh round she unleashed a blitz on Arterton and the referee stopped the fight to the shock of the sold out crowd. I sat there completely dumb founded. The loss dropped Arterton from five to seventeen and raised Ritter from 203 to eighty-four. Will this win get Ritter many more fights? I doubt it. In the Asylum press conference, there was surprisingly little said about Arterton’s loss
The two bouts that opened the card went as expected with King finishing off in four and Dennings taking one more round to flatten Stroup.
Everything after the Ritter win was anti-climatic. Swan took care of Gilpin in less than three, no surprise there. In the final match of the night, Bennet won a hard fought bout with the Wilde girl by a sixth round KO
The May Asylum PPV is in the books and it all about one name. Krysten Ritter is a 36 year old lightweight who had five fights in her career and had never won one. This was her fourth visit to the Asylum. In the Boxing World’s lightweight rankings she was list at 203. Her opponent was Gemma Arterton, a former lightweight champion, who occupied the number five slot in the rankings. The matchup was ludicrous. Arterton who had nothing to gain in the bout and could end it anytime she wanted. This was nothing more than a stay busy fight. A training episode in front of crowd. The fight shouldn’t have gone three rounds. It went seven. A hand was raised in victory. Shockingly it wasn’t Arterton’s. It was Ritters, who pulled biggest upset in years, I don’t see any possible upset the rest of the year that can beat this. Arterton was in the lead at the end of five. Ritter surprisingly decked Arterton in the sixth. In the last 30 seconds of the seventh round she unleashed a blitz on Arterton and the referee stopped the fight to the shock of the sold out crowd. I sat there completely dumb founded. The loss dropped Arterton from five to seventeen and raised Ritter from 203 to eighty-four. Will this win get Ritter many more fights? I doubt it. In the Asylum press conference, there was surprisingly little said about Arterton’s loss
The two bouts that opened the card went as expected with King finishing off in four and Dennings taking one more round to flatten Stroup.
Everything after the Ritter win was anti-climatic. Swan took care of Gilpin in less than three, no surprise there. In the final match of the night, Bennet won a hard fought bout with the Wilde girl by a sixth round KO