By Sean Jones: Light welterweight prospect Brandun Lee (22-0, 20 KOs) scored his 13th straight knockout in stopping the over-matched Samuel Teah (17-4-1, 7 KOs) in the third round on Wednesday night on Showtime Boxing from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
The 21-year-old flattened the 33-year-old Teah with a big right that knocked him cold in the third. There was no doubt about it. Teah was badly hurt on the canvas after Lee tagged him with a perfectly placed right hand to the head.
Moments before, Lee had knocked Teah down with a big shot, but he was able to get back up. In hindsight, Teah’s corner should have thrown the towel because there was no chance that he was going to be able to make it out of the round without getting knocked out.
The time of the stoppage was at 1:43 in the third round. With that knockout, Lee’s KO streak stretches three years all the way back to 2018 when he stopped Rey Trujillo in the second round in 2018.
The fight wasn’t a complete mismatch. Teah looked decent in the first two rounds, and he was landing some shots but he didn’t have the power to get Lee’s attention.
It’s unclear what Lee’s management is waiting for as matching him against better opposition. He seems to be getting fed fodder opposition in the same way super middleweight contender Edgar Berlanga is being matched against fighters that have no chance of making it competitive.
Lee’s promoters are going to have to step him up at some point because he’s not going to improve if he keeps getting matched against such terrible opposition.
Lee seems like a decent fighter, but he’s clearly not as good as his badly inflated record would suggest. It would be interesting to see how Lee holds up against Jose Zepeda, Ivan Baranchyk, Jose Pedraza, and Regis Prograis. If Lee can beat those guys, he might have a future.
- Super featherweight Jordan White (11-1, 9 KOs) stopped Miseal Lopez (11-1, KOs) in the sixth round. The time of the stoppage was at 2:40. Lopez was down twice in round six.
- Lightweight prospect Victor Padilla (9-0, 8 KOs) defeated Thomas Velasquez (10-1-1, 6 KOs) by a fifth-round knockout. Surprisingly, Padilla was down in the first round, but he got up and took the fight to Velasquez. In the fifth, Padilla knocked Velasquez down and then finished the job after he got back up. The tie of the stoppage was at 1:56 of the fifth. It wasn’t a great performance by Padilla, and it’s unclear whether he overlooked Velasquez.
- Lightweight prospect Steven Ortiz (12-0, 3 KOs) won a tougher than expected eight-round unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Jeremy Hill (14-1, 9 KOs). The judges scored it as follows: 79-73, 77-75, and 77-75.
- Featherweight journeyman Diuhl Olguin (15-16-4, 10 KOs) defeated previously undefeated David Navarro (2-1, 2 KOs) by a sixth-round TKO. Navarro, 21, suffered a cut late in the sixth, causing the fight to be halted. Olguin was then given credit for a sixth-round knockout. The time of the stoppage was at 2:39 of the sixth. At the time the fight was halted, Navarro was inning by the scores 50-45, 49-46, and 50-45.