No Extra Discuss NFL Boxing! Le’Veon Bell Scores Nasty TKO Win Adrian Peterson in LA Social Gloves Exhibition
By Robert Brizel, Head Actual Fight Media Boxing Correspondent
Los Angeles, CA (September eleventh, 2022)– Mark Gastineau tried it. Ed “Too Tall Jones” tried it. Now, two of in the present day’s most noteworthy Nationwide Soccer League working backs have gotten into the act, on the obvious expense of their promising and profitable NFL careers. Working backs Le’Veon Bell of the Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets, Baltimore Ravens, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings have taken the plunge from professional soccer, transitioning to professional boxing. Whether or not exhibition or actual, for them, it was fairly a leap from one professional sport to a different. Boxing promoters didn’t take a lot discover of the combatants on this specific event, however within the Jake Paul period, social media to boxing is a brand new and completely different street to the highest for some. Within the featured occasion at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday night time, September 10, 2022, in a Social Gloves exhibition match. Bell, age 30, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, stopped Peterson, age 37, Palestine, Texas, within the fifth spherical. The match was rescheduled from July 30.
The primary 4 rounds had been sloppy and uneventful, with each ex-NFL gamers turning into cautious boxers throwing minor jabs of little energy or consequence for 4 rounds, whereas a sparse crowd watched the farce. A proper by Bell to the chin dropped Peterson within the fifth spherical, who beat the ten depend, however wobbled across the ring earlier than the referee stopped it.
Bell insisted earlier than the exhibition bout his need to go professional is actual. Bell mentioned earlier than the battle he wished to show he was “one of many higher boxers there may be on this world.” When requested after the battle if he plans to show professional, he acknowledged “Hell yeah!” Bell, who at age 30 doesn’t but seem like a critical problem to Oleksandr Usyk, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, Andy Ruiz Jr., Deontay Wilder, Luis Ortiz, Robert Helenius, Felip Hrgovic, Ali Demirezen, Zhilei Zhang, Michael Hunter, Kubrat Pulev, Dereck Chisora, Dillian Whyte, Charles Martin, Murat Gassiev or any of the opposite notables within the heavyweight division, had this to say after boxing future after his so-called professional ‘debut’. “I wish to see how far I can go. I wish to check my limits. I’m going to proceed going, see what occurs after this. I’m going to get pleasure from tonight! Don’t get me flawed. I labored so exhausting (for my boxing debut in coaching) for thus lengthy. I’m going to get pleasure from tonight, then work out every little thing else later. I respect all people’s love and help for actual.” This reporter thinks in situation Bell and Peterson ought to critically take into account going again to professional soccer. The season has began. America of America is a free nation. So long as it’s authorized, and the opponents are clear and never on efficiency enhancing substances, all people is free to do their very own factor.
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