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Williams outpoints Alcine on Malignaggi-Broner undercard

Fighters Network
23
Jun

Julian Williams came out blazing against veteran Joachim Alcine in the first round, landing at least 25 unanswered punches before sending Alcine sprawling to the canvas. It looked like the 23-year-old Williams, a top 154-pound prospect from Philadelphia, was going to have an easy night against the 37-year-old Haitian with the gray beard on the undercard of the Paulie Malignaggi-Adrien Broner welterweight title match at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday.

But Alcine (33-5-1, 19 knockouts), a former WBA junior middleweight titleholder, got up off the canvas, finished the round and settled in to make Williams earn his eight-round unanimous victory.

It was a step up fight for Williams (13-0-1, 8 KOs), but he treated it like a summer stroll in Prospect Park until Alcine decided to fight back over the course of the final three rounds.

Ultimately Alcine was no match for Williams’ power. Besides the first round Alcine was on the canvas in the fourth and fifth rounds. And Williams knocked him down in the third, but it came on a break. Surprisingly referee Steve Willis did not warn Williams or take away a point for the infraction.



Alcine, who came battling back in the later rounds and appeared to stun Williams with some of his body shots, weathered everything that Williams could throw at him and finished on his feet. But he still came up very short on the decision as all three judges scored it 77-72 for Williams.

 

Other undercard results:

Marcus Browne, a member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic boxing team from Staten Island, N.Y., stopped Ricardo Campillo of Mexico on a TKO at 1-minute of the second round of a scheduled six round cruiserweight match. Browne (5-0, 5 KOs) knocked down Campillo (7-7-1, 5 KOs) once in the first round and twice in the second round before Campillo’s corner stepped on the ring apron and asked the referee to stop the fightÔǪ Rau’Shee Warren, Browne’s teammate from that 2012 Olympic boxing team, scored a punishing first round TKO victory over Jovany Fuentes in a scheduled four round bantamweight match. Warren (12-0, 3 KOs) sent Fuentes (5-2, 4 KOs) to the canvas three times in the first round before Fuentes’corner asked the referee to stop the fightÔǪJamel Herring (4-0, 2 KOs) scored a four round unanimous decision over Calvin Smith (2-4) in a lightweight matchÔǪRobert Easter, Jr. (5-0, 5 KOs) stopped Antoine Knight (2-4, 1 KO) at 1:46 of the third round in a scheduled six round lightweight matchÔǪ.Frank Galarza (10-0-2, 6 KOs) stopped Romon Barber (4-5, 3 KOs) at 1:54 of the fourth round of a scheduled six round middleweight matchÔǪJuan Dominquez (15-0, 10 KOs) stopped Bradley Patraw (9-6, 5 KOs) on a devastating KO at 1:36 of the first round of a scheduled eight round featherweight match.

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