Charlo knocks out Lubin to retain crown
Champ looks to unify titles and calls out Hurd
Lubin fell to the canvas and tried to get up but couldn’t. He stayed down for about a minute before being helped to his corner.
“I am fine,” Lubin said. “He caught me with a blind shot and I didn’t see it coming. It happens. It is boxing.” Charlo said he wants to unify the junior middleweight titles and if he has a choice he would like to fight IBF champ Jarrett Hurd who made his first title defence earlier Saturday with a 10th round stoppage of veteran Austin Trout.
“Give me another title. Hurd just fought and he just won. I want Hurd’s title. I want Hurd,” he said.
The unbeaten Hurd kept his record of never fighting past the 10th round going as the doctor stopped the fight in between the 10th and 11th rounds.
Hurd finished Trout off with a series of stinging lefts late in the final round that had the defenceless challenger staggering around the ring.
“I always come on strong at the end of the fight,” Hurd said.
Hurd improved to 21-0 while fellow American Trout, who has a win over Miguel Cotto on his resume, drops to 30-4.
Hurd fought with his hands down around his waist for a portion of the fight but he still managed to land blows when he had to. Hurd suffered a cut above his left eye from a head butt in the seventh round.
In the final fight of the card, WBA title holder Erislandy Lara cruised to his sixth straight title defence with a 12-round decision over challenger Terrell. — AFP