Jervonta Davis knocked out Frank Martin to retain his WBA light-weight title in Las Vegas.
Davis surprised Martin with a strong left uppercut after which adopted it up with a giant hook from the identical hand to ship his opponent crashing to the canvas within the eighth spherical.
The undefeated 29-year-old was making his return to the ring after an absence of greater than a 12 months, and Martin received off to a scorching begin, touchdown crisp proper palms within the first two rounds.
However Davis regularly elevated the depth of his punishing assault, forcing Martin to hunt refuge on the ropes and within the corners.
Within the sixth spherical, Martin was troubled by a flurry of sharp jabs that drew cheers from the group on the MGM Grand.
Davies sensed the second to strike within the eighth, tearing aside Martin’s resistance with devastating strikes to ship one other cruel stoppage victory.
On the undercard, David Benavidez marked his mild heavyweight debut with a unanimous choice victory over Alexander Gvozdyk to safe the WBC interim title.
Alberto Puella additionally received the WBC interim tremendous light-weight belt with a cut up choice win over Gary Russell.
In one other world title bout in Puerto Rico, Australia’s Liam Parra captured the IBF super-bantamweight belt with a unanimous choice win over Subriel Mathias.