Top Rank heavyweight prospect Antonio Mireles moved to 8-0 and continues his rise as a future champion with the promotional outfit.
The southpaw scored a hard-earned sixth-round stoppage victory against Dajuan Calloway for a seventh career early night.#
Fighting in Glendale, Arizona, the 6’9″ brute stopped ‘The Black Butterbean’ or ‘Blackbean’ as Calloway is affectionately known. The end came in the final round of their heavyweight bout.
After an impressive start from Calloway, Mireles began to take control of the fight with his jab. In the sixth, a prolonged assault from Mireles forced referee Wes Melton to stop the fight.
Time of stoppage: 1:38.
The pre-fight favorite was vicious at the end as he landed a bevy of hard punches that snapped the head back of the nearly 400-pounder.
Mireles of Des Moines, Iowa, weighed 120 pounds less than the bean as Calloway tipped in at 391 lbs. The Warrensville Heights puncher drops to 7-3 with the loss.
Top Rank Heavyweight stars
Promoter Bob Arum has a plethora of heavyweights coming through the ranks, all of whom he believes can hold world titles.
Jared Anderson is the pick of the bunch. Next comes Richard Torrez Jr., Bakhodir Jalolov, Arslanbek Makhmudov and Mireles.
Team-mates of Mireles at Split-T Management also posted big wins over the weekend in Atlanta and Glendale, Arizona.
In Atlanta, Tyler Howard won an eight-round majority decision over Raul Solomon in a middleweight bout.
Howard dropped Solomon with a left hook to the jaw in round one.
That was the difference in the fight as Howard, 160 lbs of Crossville, Tennessee, won by scores of 78-75 twice and 76-76 and is now 19-1. Solomon, 160 1/4 lbs of Long Beach, CA, is 12-2.
David Navarro won a six-round unanimous decision over D’Angelo Fuentes in a featherweight bout.
Navarro, 127 lbs of Los Angeles, won by scores of 60-54 twice and 58-56 and is now 6-1. Fuentes, 126.6 lbs of Coconut Creek, FL, is 8-2.
Giovanni Marquez was impressive in stopping Nicky Vitone in round two of their six-round junior welterweight bout.
At the end of round one, Marquez landed a blistering combination punctuated by a perfect left hook to the head that sent Vitone to the canvas.
In round two, Marquez hurt Vitone with a hard right and uppercut that set off a flurry that forced a referee stoppage at 59 seconds.
Marquez, 141.2 lbs of Houston, is 6-0 with four knockouts. Vitone, 140.6 lbs of Pine Brook, NJ, is 9-3-1.
Howard, Marquez, and Navarro’s fights were part of the second edition of OTX Boxing on DAZN.
