{"id":17612,"date":"2019-07-12T07:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=17612"},"modified":"2019-07-12T07:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T07:01:54","slug":"morrison-knocks-out-blandamura-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=17612","title":{"rendered":"Morrison knocks out Blandamura in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcus Morrison may have gotten his career back on track today in Italy.<\/p>\n

In today’s DAZN main event from Rome, Italy, former prospect Marcus Morrison of England may have revived his career with a ninth round TKO of veteran home fighter Emanuele Blandamura.<\/p>\n

It was a fight that had been competitive if rather unspectacular — which is an odd word, really, how many fights are spectacular<\/em>? How many anythings are spectacular<\/em>? — with Morrison doing well when he pushed the action, but seemingly too rarely doing that, allowing Blandamura to get fairly comfortable.<\/p>\n

But then late in the ninth round, Morrison (21-3, 15 KO) drilled Blandamura (29-4, 5 KO) with a right hand, one that Blandamura walked onto, and the Italian went down. Blandamura did get up, but the referee made the very wise decision to stop the fight.<\/p>\n

After the stoppage, Blandamura had to be physically held up by the referee, and he was softly lowered down to the canvas so that medical attention could be given. After a couple of minutes, though, he sat and then stood up, embracing Morrison and looking OK.<\/p>\n

For Morrison, 26, this is definitely the best win of a once-promising career. He’d run his record to 14-0 before an upset loss to Jason Welborn in March 2017, which was followed three months later by a stunning loss to club fighter Tyan Booth, and then another in June 2018 against Alistair Warren, who came in 10-18-4.<\/p>\n

But Morrison has now won five in a row, and may have gotten himself back to where he could at least fight for a domestic or European title at some point.<\/p>\n

For the 39-year-old Blandamura, this may be the end of the line. He won the European middleweight title in 2016, having previously failed in two attempts, and challenged for a secondary world title in April 2018 against Ryota Murata in Japan. He’s done everything he’s going to do in the sport, realistically, and this KO was pretty scary for a few minutes there.<\/p>\n

Other Results<\/h3>\n
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  • Serhiy Demchenko TKO-7 Hakim Zoulikha (1:20)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Tommy McCarthy RTD-2 Francesco Cataldo (3:00)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Valentino Manfredonia UD-4 Sokol Arsic (39-37, 39-37, 39-37)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Emiliano Marsili UD-6 Brayan Mairena (60-55, 60-54, 60-54)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Mirko Natalizi UD-6 Antonio Gomez (59-55, 60-54, 60-54)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Vincenzo Bevilacqua UD-6 Novak Radulovic (59-55, 59-55, 60-54)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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