By Nate Anderson: Commonwealth welterweight champion John O’Donnell (22-1, 10 KO’s) easily defeated Tom Glover (9-6-3) on Saturday night, breaking his nose and stopping him in the 6th round at the Colosseum, Watford, Hertfordshire. It was a case of O’Donnell, 23, of having too much height skill and being much too sharp for the slower, weaker Glove to compete against.
In the 6th, O’Donnell teed off on a badly hurt Glover, whose nose was broken earlier in the fight in the 2nd. With little being thrown back at him, O’Donnell pummeled Glover in the 6th, knocking him to the ropes with a series of sharp punches.
Referee Richard James Davies then stepped in at 2:43 and stopped the one-sided fight. Glover, 5’6″, didn’t have the height or reach to handle the punches from the 5’11” O’Donnell, and ended up eating a lot of punches all night long. To his credit, Glover kept applying the pressure, trying to back O’Donnell up.
However, O’Donnell rained a constant flow of punches on Glover as he moved forward and was able to back away while continuing to drill Glover in the face. It was a pretty ugly fight if you were a Glover fan. With zero knockouts on his record, Glover didn’t have the power to give O’Donnell any problems nor the speed and reach to make the fight competitive.
Glover continuously stalked O’Donnell in the first two rounds, absorbing a lot of punches as he moved forward. After walking through countless shots, Glover often would only get a couple of weak shots off before O’Donnell would move away and continue his barrage of shots.
In the 2nd round, O’Donnell landed a beautiful triple right hook, nailing Glover with a shot to the head, followed by a right to the body and then another big right to the head, all within seconds. Glover was getting few shots off of his own and looking really weak and slow.
In the 3rd round, O’Donnell tagged Glover with a nice left uppercut that appeared to break Glover’s nose. Blood immediately starting rushing out of Glover’s nose and it began to swell up visibly. O’Donnell stayed on the move using his height and reach in the 3rd, giving Glover very few opportunities to land his own shots.
In the fourth and 5th, Glover was only able to land less than ten punches per round. None of them had any power and he was looking more and more like a fighter that was doomed to lose. By this time, Glover’s face had started to turn red like a ripe tomato and his nose was bleeding nonstop.
O’Donnell continued to his Glover at will and looking quite good. In the 6th round, O’Donnell teed off on Glover, hitting him with a storm of punches that drove Glover back into the ropes. At that point, referee Richard James Davies stepped in and stopped the bout.
“A tough kid,” O’Donnell said afterwards, talking about Glover. “I got to take my hat off to him. I hit him with everything and he kept coming. I hit his nose and knew it was broken. I just kept punching. I knew sooner or later the referee would stop it.”
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