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Stevenson Floors Marshmallow
Legs
Pryor Jr. Four Times To Win By TKO
By Daniel Cloutier
Adonis Stevenson, a southpaw from Montréal, should be in the
Top 5 of the IBF, WBA and WBO ratings by the beginning of
next year. Saturday evening in the ring of the Bell Center
Theater, Stevenson (16-1-0) won the most important fight of
his career, a NABA, NABO and IBF International championships
fight. He sent the American Aaron Pryor Jr. four times on
the canvas, and won this fight by TKO in the 9th round.
Stevenson had problems with the Pryor’s long arms in the
first minute of the bout, but he surprised his opponent in
the second minute of the fight. He floored him with a power
shot.
Pryor got up in smiling.
In the second round, Pryor did a pretty good job to keep
Stevenson away, but in the third, Adonis put on pressure as
he chased his opponent constantly, the result was he floored
him for the second and third times of the fight.
Clearly, Stevenson knew that he was stronger physically than
Pryor.
Stevenson hit Pryor very hard at the end of the 5th round,
and the American staggered. Same situation at the end of the
8th round. Pryor had marshmallow legs in returning in his
corner.
In the 9th, Stevenson floored Pryor for the fourth time of
the evening, and at this point, Pryor’s trainers asked to
the referee to stop the fight. Pryor was bleeding from the
mouth and the nose after his fifth lost (16-5-0).
“I just got the most important win of my life, and watch me
in 2012,” said Stevenson before leave the ring. “My dream is
to fight Lucian Bute. I want to inflict him his first lost,
and put my hands on his IBF belt. He never fought a strong
puncher like me. Believe me, 2012 will be my year. Pryor
beat the tough Mexican fighter Librado Andrade last May, and
I just destroyed him. Don’t forget that Librado came so
close to beat Bute in October 2008 here in Montréal.”
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