Canadian Ali Nestor Charles knocks Mexican Martin Avila out in the eighth round – Boxing News
Ali Nestor Charles, the former WBC Latino middleweight champion, made a successful comeback against the Mexican Martin Avila, the incumbent WBC Youth Intercontinental light middleweight champion, by knocking him out in the eighth round in a bout held on
April 7, 2012.
The ring for the event was stretched at Claude-Robillard Center situated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and the pay-per-view was promoted by Ali Nestor Charles himself. The duo headlined the Saturday night event and was co-headlined by the battle between Tony
Luis and Ferenc Szabo.
Ali, 35, was entering in his 20th bout and had a visible upper hand over his Mexican opponent. With just 12 wins in his resume, the Canadian proud Nestor was almost equivalent to Avila as far as the stats are concerned.
Nestor boasted four wins via knockout whereas Avila nailed six of his opponents via KO. Charles, a southpaw, got an upper hand in two significant aspects. One he possessed the decisive home crowd advantage and the other was the height one which enabled him
to cover a substantial reach of 183cm as compared to Martin’s 165cm.
From the very beginning, Ali started pummelling Avila substantially and did not commit any kind of significant mistake. Martin, who possessed 13 wins in a total 21 bouts, did not put forth the Boxing fanatics an energetic pound-for-pound game and lacked
the basic defence facet.
After the initial one or two rounds, the duo started to get extremely sluggish so much so that most of the time both men were witnessed hugging each other in order to restrict the other one from throwing a punch.
It was during this to and fro movement that Ali found a gap and threw a huge powerful jab in the seventh round that rattled Avila’s world. Somehow the Mexican ‘Azteca’ brought his senses together and broke the referee’s 10-count but this did not help him
much.
During the eighth round, Ali, who himself was out of gas, decided to end the bout via knockout and leashed a powerful attack. Avila did not resist much and Nestor’s left well-calculated upper hand connected which eventually flattened Martin on the ring floor.
Steve St-Germain, the bout-referee, finished his 10 count and awarded the bout via knockout to Ali. Nestor has impressively strengthened his long win streak and boasts 13 wins with five of them via knockout. Avila, on the other hand has collected his career’s
ninth defeat out of a total 22 bouts.
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