Ellis Zorro potentially ended Hosea Burton' boxing career on Friday night with a brutal punch at Bethnal Green' York Hall, before the event was marred by crowd trouble.
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Ellis Zorro potentially ended Hosea Burton's boxing career on Friday night with a brutal punch at Bethnal Green's York Hall, before the event was marred by crowd trouble.
The 30-year-old had been struggling in the bout up to the seventh round, with Burton, who is Tyson Fury's cousin, appearing to lead at that stage.
However, with blood beginning to stream from both fighters and fatigue starting to set in, Zorro pulled something from the last vestiges of his being to produce a sensational finish.
With Burton having gone down once in the round, with the referee adjudging it not to be a knockdown, Zorro pushed him back onto the ropes and produced a brutal right hand to lay him flat on the canvas.
As Zorro danced joyously around the ring, the referee knelt over Burton and called the fight as his corner rushed in to provide care.
Stewards, in the footage filmed by another crowd member, sat in the gallery above, and tried in vain to stop the chaos but could not do so.
One chair thrown from close to the ring caught an individual on the side of the head, sending him in a crumbling heap onto the ground.
Most people watching on appeared to realize what had occurred, with profanities heard in the footage circulated, while a man close to the individual hurt had to be restrained from confronting the culprit.
Stewards stepped in to offer the man medical assistance as he lay flat on his back.
The 30-year-old had been struggling in the bout up to the seventh round, with Burton, who is Tyson Fury's cousin, appearing to lead at that stage.
However, with blood beginning to stream from both fighters and fatigue starting to set in, Zorro pulled something from the last vestiges of his being to produce a sensational finish.
With Burton having gone down once in the round, with the referee adjudging it not to be a knockdown, Zorro pushed him back onto the ropes and produced a brutal right hand to lay him flat on the canvas.
As Zorro danced joyously around the ring, the referee knelt over Burton and called the fight as his corner rushed in to provide care.
Stewards, in the footage filmed by another crowd member, sat in the gallery above, and tried in vain to stop the chaos but could not do so.
One chair thrown from close to the ring caught an individual on the side of the head, sending him in a crumbling heap onto the ground.
Most people watching on appeared to realize what had occurred, with profanities heard in the footage circulated, while a man close to the individual hurt had to be restrained from confronting the culprit.
Stewards stepped in to offer the man medical assistance as he lay flat on his back.