With a dramatic knockout win over Austin McBroom in the main event, AnEsonGib re-established himself as a prominent figure in YouTube boxing. The British fighter was crushed in the first round before rising to finish his feuding opponent with five knockdowns.
All eyes were on the Saudi-born influencer following his comeback battle after a humiliating robbery and loss on his professional debut. After recovering from a knockdown, he scored five of his punches to finish off Social Gloves promoter McBroom in a performance that will go down in YouTube boxing history.
In the first celebrity game of the night, Cory Wharton and Chase Demoor failed to score any meaningful goals in their exhibition, and no winner was announced.
Wharton probably would have won if there were scorecards because Demoor couldn’t even keep his mouthpiece, let alone throw a punch.
In his post-fight interview, Demoor singled out Tayler Holder, a fight that would have been nearly impossible given their 40-pound weight disparity. Wharton promised a rematch, but this time against a more prominent opponent.
When Adam Saleh and Landon McBroom entered a battle for the ICB middleweight title as the first professional fight for half of the show’s celebrities, height disparity was once again the critical factor. McBroom’s second-round flurry of trying to assert himself was a crucial early rally, but Saleh deflected most of his punches.
At times, Saleh found McBroom’s control of the ring a little too much to handle, but when the New Yorker opted to fire punches, he seemed like the better boxer. A disastrous result for Social Gloves, whose other celebrity fights on the undercard were scoreless showcases.
One of the main events of the night was a clash of NFL running backs, and Leon Bell beat Adrian Peterson with a decisive knockout. Before deciding to work behind their punches in the second, the pair didn’t throw much in the opening exchanges. Bell strayed his feet and fell to the ground early in the second, but even though a punch was landed, it didn’t count as a knockdown.
With Bell showing signs of potential in an otherwise unremarkable round, including a strong hit and nothing in the fourth, the action picked up in the third but only slightly. But Bell ultimately won the fight, knocking Peterson to the ground early in the fifth with a big right hand over the top.
