Showtime Undercard Results: Vidal Squeaks Past Aleem; Romero KOs Yigit

By: Sean Crose

Showtime introduced a 3 struggle card stay from the on the AT&T Heart in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday evening. First up, the 12-0 tremendous middleweight Amilcar Vidal confronted the 18-2-2 Immanuwel Aleem in a scheduled 10 rounder. Vidal had final fought again in November when he knocked out Edward Ortiz in 2. Aleem had final seen motion in 2019 when he dropped a call to Ronald Ellis.

The struggle adopted an fascinating sample. Aleem did nicely early on, whereas Vidal labored nicely heading into the center rounds. Aleem, a strain fighter, was in a position to grind away, however Vidal wasn’t afraid to use strain himself. It was a excessive octane affair. On the finish of the sixth, Vidal harm his man with brutal physique work.

To his credit score, Aleem not solely survived, however returned to being aggressive. By the later rounds every man was digging deep and throwing laborious. Each males fired away within the tenth and closing spherical, thrilling the stay crowd and the Showtime broadcast group. Vidal squeaked by with a majority resolution win.

Subsequent up, the 13-0 Rolando Romero confronted the 24-1-1 Anthony Yigit in a scheduled 12 rounder. Romero’s earlier bout resulted in a stoppage victory over Aver Sparrow in January. Yigit had final been within the ring again in 2019 when he bested Siar Ozgul by resolution. Yigit additionally had proven up fairly heavy for the weigh in for the battle with Romero.

Though Yigit was within the sport, the primary few rounds gave the impression to be edged by Romero. The fifth spherical, nevertheless, was wild, with Romero being docked a degree for roughhousing, then dropping his man on the bell. Yigit received up, then survived the sixth, however was despatched to the mat once more within the seventh. He received up, then went down once more. Lastly, a thunderous Romero shot put Yigit down and out.