In progress: Austin Williams vs. Quadeer Jenkins, 4 rounds, middleweights
Last fight: light heavyweight contender Joshua Buatsi stopped Marco Antonio Periban
NEW YORK — Former junior welterweight world titlist Chris Algieri stopped Tommy Coyle at the of the eight round in an all-out slugfest.
Algieri (24-3, 9 KOs), 35, of nearby Huntington, New York, won his third consecutive fight since returning in November from 2½ layoff following a fifth-round knockout loss to Errol Spence Jr. at welterweight in April 2016.
It didn’t look good for Algieri early when Coyle landed a powerful right hand to the chin that rocked him in the second round. Coyle followed up with a series of punches that seemed to have him on the verge of going down before he got himself together.
In the fourth round, Algieri badly hurt Coyle with a left to the body that made him grimace in pain. He staggered backward toward the ropes and Algieri landed two more to the body to drop Coyle. He beat the count but even though he was clearly in pain he mustered enough to slug it out with Algieri for the rest of the round.
The fight continued to be a slugfest with both men showing the marks of the violence around their eyes but when the eighth round was over Coyle’s corner stopped the fight.
Coyle (25-5, 12 KOs), 29, of England, who was fighting in the U.S. for the second fight in a row, saw three-fight winning streak end.
Also on the undercard
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Junior middleweight Souleymane Cissokho (9-0, 6 KOs), 27, the Joshua-managed 2016 Olympic bronze medalist from France, rolled to a one-sided decision over Vladimir Hernandez (10-4, 6 KOs), 30, of Mexico, who took a ton of punches but hung in there until the final bell. The scores were 80-72, 79-73 and 79-72 as Cissokho got in a good workout.
Still to come:
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Title fight: Anthony Joshua vs. Andy Ruiz Jr., 12 rounds, for Joshua’s IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight title
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Title fight: Callum Smith vs. Hassan N’Dam, 12 rounds, for Smith’s WBA super middleweight title
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Title fight: Katie Taylor vs. Delfine Persoon, 10 rounds, WBA/WBO/IBF/WBC women’s lightweight unification
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Josh Kelly vs. Ray Robinson, 10 rounds, welterweights
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Diego Pacheco vs. Jared Chauvin, 4 rounds, middleweights
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Austin Williams vs. Quadeer Jenkins, 4 rounds, middleweights