By Nate Anderson: Undefeated Commonwealth (British Empire) super flyweight champion Don Broadhurst (11-0, 3 KOs) successfully defended his title on Friday night with a 6th round stoppage victory over Ghanaian Asamoah Wilson (0-4) at the Civic Centre, in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. Broadhurst, 25, was viciously battering Wilson on the ropes in the 6th when his corner threw in the towel to force the stoppage.
Referee Mark Green then moved in and halted the fight at 2:44 of the round. Broadhurst, 25, fought superbly throughout the fight, landing well with powerful body shots and causing Wilson to shut down any offensive hopes that he had of his own.
Wilson fought well in the first round, hitting Broadhurst with a huge left hook to the head near the end of the round that bloodied Broadhurst’s nose. Broadhurst had started off well using his high guard to try and pick off some of Wilson’s powerful hooks. He did well in the first two minutes, throwing nice right hands to the midsection of Wilson.
In looking at the two of them, Broadhurst was a lot bigger and appeared to weigh at least 10 to 15 pounds more than the slender Wilson. Broadhurst perhaps put some water weight on after the weigh in for the fight. At any case, he looked like a giant compared to Wilson and the power difference between the two was fairly dramatic with Broadhurst showing the much better power.
Broadhurst’s nose continued to bleed like crazy in the 3rd round, streaking blood all across his face and making it look as if he was cut in a million places at once. The bleeding seemed to affect his breathing, because Broadhurst looked fatigued in the round and appeared to be taking big breaths with his mouth.
Wilson was emboldened by the sight of the blood and attacked Broadhurst hard, and landed some hard right hands in the early part of the round. However, Broadhurst began to light up with right hands to the body that seemed to take the fight out of Wilson, putting him on the back foot for the remainder of the round.
Broadhurst took notice of Wilson’s reactions to the body shots and started to pour in more and more of them. Broadhurst would move in and land a right hand to the body, and then escape to the outside without getting hit by Wilson.
Broadhurst continued focusing mainly on the body in the 4th, landing some hard shots and knocking Wilson around the ring. Wilson appeared to be cringing as Broadhurst would throw the shots and looked pretty much helpless to block or try to get out of the way of the punches.
By this point in the fight, the it might not have been a bad idea for Wilson’s team to pull the plug on him because he was no longer throwing anything back at Broadhurst and was just absorbing needless punishment without being remotely competitive.
The one-sided beating continued in the 5th with Broadhurst continuing his body attack. I counted only three pitiful punches thrown by Wilson in the round. The rest of the time, he spent taking shots and looking in pain.
Thankfully, Wilson’s team threw in the towel after he took some enormous punishment in the 6th round. Too bad the stoppage was four rounds too late in my estimation.
Broadhurst said after the fight, “I just stick to my boxing, using my jab and chipping away. He was a tough, durable lad.”
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