Local favorite Danny “Little Mac” McDermott scored a fourth round technical knockout over Bryan Abraham at Schuetzen Park in North Bergen, New Jersey, last Thursday to end a two-fight losing streak.
The referee halted the scheduled six-rounder at the 2:38 mark when McDermott unleashed a barrage of shots on Abraham following three rounds of give and take.
Moving up to the welterweight division for the first time, the 32 year-old McDermott set up the stoppage with a big hook that flung Abraham into the ropes. A succession of uppercuts and two powerful right hooks then had Abraham out on his feet, forcing the referee’s intervention.
McDermott upped his record to 9-3 [4 KOs]. Abraham, a knockout specialist out of Schenectady, New York, whose five wins have all been by stoppages, fell to 5-10.
“I realized he couldn’t hurt me as the fight went on, so I got I little cute,” said McDermott. “A lot of the guys he knocked out didn’t have the granite McDermott chin that I do. They say granite breaks brick every time and that is what I did.” (Brick is Abraham’s nickname.)
The fight was the main event of the inaugural show in Rich Komissar Promotions’ new “Tommy Gallagher's Winners Have Scars” boxing series.
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Looks like Andy Lee and Matthew Macklin, Ireland’s two world ranked middleweights, won’t be getting any title shots at Sergio Martinez or Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. anytime soon.
At its 49th annual convention in Las Vegas last week, the World Boxing Council [WBC] ordered an immediate fight between Martinez, its former 160-pound titlist now recognized as the organization’s “Diamond” Champion, and Chavez, the formal WBC belt holder.
WBC President, Jose Sulaiman, ordered that Chavez’ next title fight be against Martinez no later than March of 2012. Any defiance of the mandate would result in a vacant world middleweight title.
Macklin has been gunning for a shot at Martinez in New York on St. Patrick’s Day, while Lee’s sights have lately been set on the undefeated Chavez [44-0, 31 KOs], who beat John Duddy in June 2010.
Lee [27-1, 19 KOs] is ranked number one at 160-pounds by the World Boxing Organization [WBO], number two by the World Boxing Association [WBA] and fifth by the WBC.
Macklin [28-3, 19 KOs] is fourth in the WBA and seventh in the WBO.
