Yoel Angeloni loved a profitable professional debut with a win over an unbeaten opponent. The lean Cuban-Italian southpaw from Rome, Italy fended off a decided Ken Aitken to take a four-round, unanimous choice win. Judges Andrew Campbell (39-37), Brett Manton (39-37) and Martin O’Malley (40-36) all scored in favor of Angeloni—simply days shy of his nineteenth birthday—of their welterweight bout Sunday morning (native time) at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia.
The high-contact bout noticed Angeloni put his top, attain and pace to correct use in opposition to Queensland’s Aitken, who was pressured to beat a reduce. Angeloni landed the crisper mixtures all through their preliminary bout, although pressured to beat a reduce outdoors his left eye from a conflict of heads within the ultimate minute of the struggle.
Aitken falls to 3-1 (1KO) with the loss, whereas Angeloni—who’s signed with DiBella Leisure—improves to 1-0 (0KOs).
Brisbane’s Taylah Robertson (5-1, 1KO) pitched a five-round shutout over beforehand unbeaten Sarah Higginson (3-1-1, 1KO). Judges Andrew Campbell (50-45), Brett Manton (50-45) and Martin O’Malley (50-45) all scored the bout in favor of Robertson, who dropped right down to flyweight after beforehand campaigning as a bantamweight.
Opening the present, regionally primarily based Pom Thanawut Phetkum soundly outpointed Sydney’s Hussein Fayad over 4 rounds of their junior light-weight contest. All three judges scored the bout 40-36 in favor of Phetkum (1-1, 0KOs), who picks up his first profession victory. Fayad comes up nicely quick in his professional debut, falling to 0-1, although already on account of return July 2 in Revesby, Australia.
Headlining the present, Sydney-based lineal/WBA/IBF/WBO light-weight champion George Kambosos Jr. (20-0, 10KOs) faces WBC light-weight titlist Devin Haney (27-0, 15KOs) of Las Vegas, for the undisputed championship.
Jake Donovan is a senior author for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox
