Dunstan badly knocked out by Afolabi - Hamburg undercard report
42 year-old Terry Dunstan needs to seriously consider his future in the sport after being badly knocked out in the first round by fellow Brit Ola Afolabi.
Dunstan started the contest with confidence and got on the front foot but he simply didn’t see the piledriving right hook which knocked his gumshield into the crowd and his senses into oblivion.
Afolabi calls himself ‘Kryptonite’ and that shot might indeed have sparked Superman himself. Well, Clark Kent at least.
Dunstan tried to rise but could only raise his head off the canvas as referee Stan Christodoulou waved a halt to proceedings. Time, 2:40.
Afolabi improves to 17-2-3 whereas Dunstan is now 24-4.
It was the first defence of Afolabi’s WBO Inter-continental belt.
Cheshunt’s Ashley Sexton and Liverpool’s Mike Robinson drew their eight-round rematch.
Scores were 78-76, 75-77 and 76-76.
It was a close contest with several rounds which could have gone either way, though I had Sexton in front at the conclusion.
Robinson set the pace for most of the contest and certainly had his successes, whilst Sexton countered nicely, putting shots together with accuracy and in bunches.
It looked like Sexton might get on top from the fourth when Robinson began to plod unsuccessfully but the Scouser found his form again to finish well.
Sexton won their first match by the narrow margin of 78-76 in April and after this, one assumes the third instalment isn’t far away. Sexton is 11-0-2; Robinson is 4-2-3.
In the show opener, Dudley middleweight Ryan Aston did as he liked against Bulgarian tough man Zahari Mutafchiev in their four-rounder.
Body beautiful Aston is a southpaw and boxes very much like a fighter he knows well, George Groves. Aston rattled in shots at will; Mutafchiev did fire back but mainly in the interests of survival rather than victory.
By the third, Aston was really enjoying himself. He didn’t quite manage the stoppage but wasn’t going flat out and the Bulgarian was a durable sort.
Unfortunately, the score as read out by the German MC – if indeed he read one out – was inaudible to me.
That makes two fights in eight days for Aston, and two wins. He beat Iain Jackson on Kell Brook's undercard in Sheffield last Saturday.
