A boxer on the undercard of Ebanie Bridges' world title fight was once disqualified for launching his opponent out of the ring.
Bridges makes her highly-anticipated boxing return against Miyo Yoshida on Saturday night in San Francisco, California. The IBF bantamweight champion will look to put on a show after a year-long absence, having beaten Shannon O’Connell with a broken hand last December.
But the Blonde Bomber will not be the only source of entertainment on the fight schedule. Montana Love also takes on Liam Paro in a 12-round junior welterweight fight at Chase Center.
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Those unfamiliar with Love by name might know him as the fighter who infamously flipped his last opponent out of the ring. The American was heading towards a defeat when he faced Steve Spark in November 2022.
Love, having been knocked down in the second and suffered a nasty cut above the eye from a headbutt, got tangled in a clinch with Spark in the sixth round. But in shocking scenes, the 28-year-old drove his opponent towards the ropes, flipping Spark over the top rope and out of the ring.
Spark rose to his feet immediately after taking the tumble and looked at his rival in confusion. But despite Spark climbing back into the ring to continue the bout, referee David Fields disqualified Love, handing him the first defeat of his career.
Both the fans and the two fighters were left disappointed by the underwhelming ending, with Spark even claiming he was “devastated” despite ending up victorious.
“Thank you to Cleveland for the hospitality,” said the Australian. “My job is to fight, and this has changed my life. I’m devastated how it ended. I got the early knock down and I was fighting with my whole heart, it was growing into a great fight, but we didn’t want it to end this way.”
“He was using dirty rough house tactics all night and I pushed him off me, I didn’t lift him up or throw him out of the ring. We wanted him to tire out and catch him later on, and that’s where it was going. I want to do it again, he can’t outbox me or outfight me, let’s do it again.”
Love, from Cleveland Ohio, will hope his upcoming fight ends in less controversial fashion. Opponent Paro, also an Australian, is currently undefeated with 23 wins to his name.
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