Tristan Kalkreuth vs. Devonte Williams (02-08-2025) Full Fight

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00:01You received your instructions in the locker room.

00:03I want a good, clean fight.

00:04Obey my commands at all times.

00:05Defend yourselves at all times.

00:06Do what you can't train to do.

00:08Good, clean boxing.

00:08Got it?

00:09Touch gloves.

00:10To your corners.

00:14Tristan Kalkruth wasn't great in his last performance,

00:17as Chris Mannix mentioned.

00:18He gave himself a C-plus grade for that performance.

00:22Believes he's refreshed, re-energized,

00:24and promises to deliver an A here tonight.

00:26And it'll be much easier now that he has a late replacement

00:30in Devontae Williams, who's fighting on a hope and a prayer.

00:34Let's see what he can do here as we come to you live from Chicago, Illinois.

00:38Not necessarily easier.

00:40I mean, you still have to learn from a new trainer.

00:43He was preparing to fight a southpaw.

00:45Williams is an orthodox fighter.

00:47Yes, he's much smaller.

00:48He's coming off a KO loss.

00:50He's been inactive.

00:51All that bashed up with Williams.

00:52But whenever you have someone in front of you

00:54and a different look that you weren't preparing for,

00:56you might have some rounds to get out first.

01:01Well, for Williams, he lost to Kenton Cook in 2017,

01:05took four and a half years off,

01:06then beat Mook Ethan Darvius,

01:08then took three and a half years off

01:10before losing last month to Dean Nicholson.

01:13Well, not only that, but he started his career at 149 pounds.

01:17He's much smaller, and the inactivity is another thing.

01:21Well, if you're Tristan Kalkruth,

01:23are you trying to get this guy out early,

01:24or are you just saying,

01:25look, it's eventually going to happen,

01:26let's just be patient?

01:27I think early.

01:28You get him out of there.

01:29I mean, he's been active.

01:29He's much smaller.

01:31You're the one with the big power behind that right hand.

01:33You have the height advantage of reach, the size.

01:36Don't try to get him confident.

01:38So go out there and try to land that big right hand

01:40as early as possible.

01:41William shakes that one off, nicknamed the Boogeyman.

01:47As for Kalkruth, signed with Golden Boy way back in June of 2019,

01:51and at the time, he was the second youngest ever to sign with the company.

01:55Yeah, they've been doing a great job with him as well,

01:56keeping him busy, keeping him active.

01:59Even after that loss, that hiccup, you know, he's back.

02:01You know, confidence hasn't swayed, and here he is again.

02:04Well, Chris, that loss does have an asterisk beside it,

02:08as Kalkruth had to go through a lot of pain and an injury

02:10just to make it to the end of that fight.

02:12Yeah, he did have to battle through a significant shoulder injury

02:15that later required surgery.

02:17He's bounced back well, winning seven fights in a row

02:19and kind of reestablished himself.

02:21But he's had a lot of uneven performances,

02:24like that fight against Valera.

02:25You look at the scorecards, near shutout, dominant,

02:28but it wasn't the best, I thought, of Tristan Kalkruth.

02:31He can be hit or miss in some of these fights.

02:34Right now, I like the confidence, the look in the eyes of Williams.

02:37He got caught with a shot, stared at Kalkruth,

02:40you know, nodding his head, but I like the confidence.

02:42Kalkruth left the hand, followed by a right from Williams,

02:45who looks a little bit like former heavyweight Chris Bird in the face.

02:49I agree, I was going to say that earlier.

02:52Shout out to Chris Bird.

02:54Watch the hold of him, guys.

02:55Stop, stop, take a step back.

03:00Box.

03:00But Williams having a better opening round

03:02than I think almost anybody thought he would.

03:04Yeah, and he's much smaller.

03:06You can see it right there, but I like the way he's handling himself.

03:09Anytime that Kalkruth tries to get something going,

03:12not only does he not his head,

03:13but he comes back with a nice punch to keep Kalkruth off.

03:18With a confident smaller fighter like this,

03:20you've got to bust him up with length.

03:21You know, don't get inside and give him an opportunity

03:24for a smaller fighter to throw shots like that.

03:28Pop him on the outside, keep him outside,

03:31and keep him at the end of that right hand.

03:32electric.

03:45I bet they bought the cow with crypto.

03:49You've probably got a podcast about Kale.

03:52The Triogas.

03:56Jeffrey reckons they wear sandals.

03:59They're coming now, they're coming now.

04:01There he is.

04:03Never seem nice.

04:06They seem all right.

04:07Don't force nothing in the corner of Tristan.

04:20Look, these are good shots by Williams.

04:22Not intimidated in that first round.

04:25I like the look in his face.

04:26And look, that was a good catching counter by Kalkruth

04:28that came up short.

04:29But Williams, he's a savvy fighter.

04:31You can see that he's confident.

04:32May not be prepared for this moment,

04:34but I like the look in his face.

04:36Yeah, he's showing that he's here to win,

04:37not just to stay away and make it to the end.

04:41It's scheduled for ten rounds.

04:44If Kalkruth doesn't use that jab

04:46and fight patient and break down Williams,

04:50I can see this getting out of hand for Kalkruth.

04:52Kind of one of those trap fights.

04:57Almost like a trap game in football

04:58where you're looking past your opponent to the next one.

05:01This is a guy that, on paper,

05:02Kalkruth should have very little problem disposing of.

05:06No, not only that, but he wasn't preparing for Williams.

05:08He was preparing for a totally different style.

05:13I mean, I can work against you,

05:14especially when that other style was a left-hander.

05:16You trained your entire camp,

05:18say an eight-week camp,

05:20with a left-handed fighter,

05:21and now you're in there with a right-handed fighter

05:23that's on the back foot,

05:24tricky, jabbing, confident.

05:26The longer this fight goes,

05:27the more confidence that Williams is going to get,

05:31and the worse that Kalkruth may look.

05:35Williams can have confidence, Sergio,

05:37but if he didn't win the first round,

05:39he's not going to be the first minute plus of this round.

05:41Yeah, but he landed two good shots

05:43in the replay we just saw,

05:46so he's getting a little bit confident.

05:49Good left hook to start that sequence

05:51for Tristan Kalkruth.

05:53I'm capturing, I'm digging down to that body.

05:56That is 20 pounds of extra weight

05:58on Williams from his last fight.

06:00Yeah, his last fight was scheduled to be at 175,

06:03but Williams missed weight by seven pounds,

06:06so they boosted it up to a cruiserweight bout,

06:08and how about that uppercut?

06:10Williams is having fun in there.

06:12Yeah, he is.

06:13I've seen something different than you, man.

06:15I think, look, Williams is not winning.

06:18Yeah, but he might have won that first round.

06:19He landed some good shots.

06:22You know, and the longer this fight goes,

06:24the more confidence he's going to get.

06:25That's all I'm saying.

06:26You two have to stop scoring fights.

06:29Oh, boy.

06:31There might not be any scoring needed

06:32as Williams crumbles to the canvas here

06:36in round number two.

06:37Late reaction punch to the body.

06:39Williams up.

06:42Whoa, he's doing backflips with the fight's not over.

06:49What are we doing here?

06:50What is happening?

06:51Is this fight over?

06:53What is happening there?

06:55You ready?

06:57Come on.

06:58That was a strange decision by the referee.

07:05Williams appeared, did beat the count,

07:07but the referee then allowed him to walk back towards his corner,

07:11buying him another 10 seconds or so.

07:13Not only that, but Williams took his mouthpiece off.

07:16Turned his back, walked to his corner with his mouthpiece off.

07:18This fight should have been stopped.

07:19I mean, I guess you could say it's a veteran move

07:21by Williams to buy that time, but...

07:25Well, Cal Cruz has already celebrated the win.

07:28He's got to get it now.

07:29I guess he's got to get it now.

07:30It's good.

07:31Yeah.

07:31How are you going?

07:32I'm going to get it now.

07:33You'reoney!

07:34Woo!

07:34You're going to get I know you're going to get a pro.

08:37And call it a day as the crowd rains booze down on Devontae Williams.

08:42Yeah, when we're in commercial, I could hear Williams saying that he didn't want it anymore.

08:46The trainer said something about an eye.

08:48You could just see in the body language that Williams didn't want to go out there for that next round.

08:52Kyle Cooke caught his attention with that body shot.

08:54Williams showed no heart for the fight.

08:56Yeah, very bizarre ending.

09:00Chris, what did you learn talking to the referee?

09:02The referee just said succinctly he quit on the stool.

09:05So it was the decision by the fighter not to continue this fight.

09:09I agree.

09:10Well, an unsatisfying knockout win for Tristan Calkruth, who's already done his backflip once.

09:18Are we going to get two of them?

09:19I don't think he can, right?

09:20You've already spiked the football.

09:23Hey, he got the knockdown.

09:24The knockout, the knockdown.

09:25He's on to the next one.

09:26I mean, for a late replacement getting him out of here like this, Williams could have got trickier,

09:30but he just didn't have the mental fortitude to keep looking for a fight.

09:35Let's show you how this ended.

09:49You know, I think earlier Williams thought it was over.

09:52That's why he got up, walked to his corner with his mouthpiece out,

09:55and then all of a sudden the referee said, okay, you're going to fight.

09:56And then Williams was like, what do I do?

09:58I look good.

09:59I'm not hurt.

10:00Do I just try to make it to the end of the round?

10:02He made it to the end of the round, and then he officially quit.

10:05He said something about his eye, but I don't see no issues with his eyes.

10:08And I think in this situation, we could say he quit.

10:12So, yeah, he didn't want no more, and he found a way out.

10:14I lost.

10:16I ain't saying that you fight.

10:17No, I ain't done that.

10:20Well, we were praising Williams for a round and a half, and then he just kind of faded away.

10:26Yeah, you know, whenever you're a late replacement,

10:29you don't expect to go the distance.

10:31So the first two rounds, it was nervous energy.

10:34He was giving you what he had, but he was a smaller man.

10:37He was a much smaller man.

10:38And that body shot, it didn't land that cleanly, to be honest with you.

10:42And I think Williams just found, you know, came as a late replacement, cashed the check, and got out of here.

10:51Oh, that hit his elbow, his forearm.

10:55That punch didn't even land cleanly.

10:57And there's the flip.

11:06And then William C. Williams saying, no, I'm done.

11:08All right, well, that's over.

11:09And then the referee goes, wait a minute, you can still fight.

11:11So, Devontae Williams did not exactly go out on his shield tonight.

11:19And judging off that replay, he didn't even go out with a body shot.

11:22He was blocked.

11:23Just announced on DAZN, get ready for a clash of rising contenders

11:26as Abel Gonzalez steps into the ring against the tough and relentless Alphonso Flores.

11:30That's Saturday, August 23rd, live right here on DAZN.

11:42Let's go to Joe Martinez, who makes it official.

11:51Ladies and gentlemen, at one second of round number three,

11:56Williams fails to answer the bell to start the round.

11:58Referee, Joel Camposano Jr. puts a stop to the fight,

12:02declaring your winner by TKO, Sweet T, Tristan Calcruth.

12:17So, Tristan Calcruth with one of the easiest wins of his career,

12:21but he did take some punches there.

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