ANDY LEE OVERCAME a torrid start against John Jackson to knock out his Virgin Islands opponent in the fifth round and claim the vacant NABF light middleweight belt. The Limerick native turned defence into attack to drop Jackson with a counter right that had the 21,090 fans at Madison Square Garden on their feet.
Lee was knocked down in round one and Jackson had the better of the following three rounds. The fifth round did not seem to be going much better for the 2004 Olympian but his crunching right up, with Jackson brewing up for a blow of his own, ended the contest.
Check out the finish here:
Here is a video of the final minutes of the bout:
Lee tweeted this fitting picture after the bout:
In the night’s main event, Miguel Cotto pummelled Sergio Martinez for nine brutal rounds before he was eventually awarded him a TKO win. The Puerto Rican sent the WBC middleweight champ to the canvas three times in the first round and never let up thereafter.
Martinez took a seat in his corner ahead of the 10th round but never got up when the bell rang, leaving referee Michael Griffin to call the fight in Cotto’s favour.
“I got hit with a right hand (in the first round) and I was cold,” Martinez said. “I never recuperated after that.”
– First posted at 9:50am today
Sweet jesus, that was some shot !! His face broke his fall !!
Its not just the punch…which was outrageous…its also the way he took such a battering all the fight and hung in there. There’s boxers, then there’s fighters.
The only words I could understand from that commentator was “lucky punch”. He may gotten some luck last night, but Andy nearly broke your man’s face!
You make your own luck, its boxing not luck !
Lucky from Lee there, he was taking a beating.
Is your man he beat any relation to Julian Jackson? Serious knockout, I don’t know if Lee can take that punishment from the top guys tho. Cotto is a small middleweight, if he gets a shot at him and boxes clever he could have a chance.
Julian jacksons son
He has no chance and won’t get near a shot at cotto
Soft enough jaw on the opponent me finks
Ah stop Sean , that punch would have dropped a pony.
Cracking punch. The timing was exceptional
In every way hung, if it didn’t come then Andy was bet, great timing all right.
Here is the fight for anyone interested. Uber prize fighting!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1ZSuvXhaXNQp283Bmp
Thanks.
Peach.. Well done Andy