RICHARDSON RETAINS HIS WELTERWEIGHT TITLE
CONTEST HALTED WITH WELTERWIGHT FIGHTER RICHARDSON ON TOP
PROFESSIONAL boxer Dean Richardson made a successful first defence of his Southern Area Super Welterweight title, at York Hall.
The 24-year-old, from South Ruislip, stopped his opponent, Konrad Stempkowski, in the seventh round of a scheduled 10.
Richardson started quickly, visibly hurting his older opponent in the first two rounds and applying pressure with a barrage of punches.
As the rounds went by, Richardson slowed a bit and was getting caught more than before as he began to fatigue.
Still bursting into action as he continued to hurt his Reading-based opponent, Richardson forced Stempkowski into taking to a knee at the end of the sixth round with the bell coming at the count of two.
Stempkowski beat the count and the seventh round began with the doctor taking a look at his swollen, closed right eye before action continued.
Richardson got back to his boxing after trying to land big counter-shots in the previous rounds and moved around his opponent’s relentless march well.
Action slowed down before Stempkowski walked onto a right hook – opening a second cut, this time above his right eyebrow, with the first opening up on his foreverswelling right cheekbone.
Sensing referee Lee Every was close to stopping the contest, Richardson put combinations together to the head and body of his opponent.
After a number of fierce shots landed on Stempkowski’s bruised and bleeding face, Every stepped in and called a halt to the contest at one minute and 49 seconds of the seventh round as Stempkowski’s corner simultaneously threw in the towel.
Richardson, who is trained by Gary Logan, then had his hand raised as winner and remains Southern Area Super Welterweight Champion. Richardson now has a record of 12-0 with nine knockouts to his name.
After six months out of the ring, it is now uncertain when Richardson can return to the ring with all boxing events suspended until further notice due to the coronavirus outbreak.