[Thomas Hearns]

Ray Leonard defeats Kahlid Jones by TKO 8!

An under-trained and a bit unmotivated Sugar Ray Leonard 21-2-0 (13) dodged a bullet when the referee stopped his fight against George Khalid Jones 23-2-3 (17) due to a nasty cut on Jones’ forehead that delivered rivers of blood into his eyes. At the time of the stoppage Jones was leading on all three scorecards (67-66; 68-65 and 67-66).
The fighters exchanged the first four rounds Jones won the first and third ones and Leonard the second and the fourth ones. Each fighter won his rounds on a big form. The cut that finally defined the fight was produced by a big uppercut by Leonard on the second round.
The fight continued with the same form with Jones winning the fifth round and Leonard the sixth one. At the end of this round the cut looked rather worse.
On the seventh round Jones put Leonard on some trouble with a cross to clearly win the round. On the eight round Leonard presured the actions and with another uppercut he opened the cut again and the referee stopped the actions.

On the undercard of this fight #112 Michael Nunn 19-2-0 (13) scored a slim unanimous decision win against #38 Dan Scommer 27-3-1 (10). The fight was a very even one all the way and was only defined when Nunn dropped Schommer on the last round with a great body shot. The scorecards were 96-93 (x2) and 95-94 for Michael Nunn.